George F. Van Hare. M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford Univeristy School of Medicine
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco
Director, Pediatric Arrhythmia Center at UCSF and Stanford
George F. Van Hare,
M.D., is director of the Pediatric Arrhythmia Center at UCSF and Stanford,
and splits his time between the two campuses. He did his cardiology fellowship
at the University of California San Francisco, with additional training
in electrophysiology at UCSF and the Texas Children's Hospital. He was
previously director of the Pediatric Arrhythmia Service at Case Western
Reserve University, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, in Cleveland,
Ohio. At the Pediatric Arrhythmia Center, children with heart rhythm disorders
are cared for, and all diagnostic and therapeutic modalities are available.
These include out-patient and in-patient consultations, ECG/Holter/event
recording, pacemaker follow-up, exercise studies, electrophysiologic studies,
radiofrequency ablation, and implantation of pacemakers and implantable
cardioverter-defibrillators.
Dr. Van Hare has a long-standing interest in post-operative arrhythmias, and in particular, the application of new technology for characterization, mapping, and successful ablation of these arrhythmias in the electrophysiology laboratory. In particular, the pediatric electrophysiology laboratory is exploring the use of electroanatomic mapping, basket catheter technology, and cooled-tip ablation in the mapping and ablation of intra-atrial reentry tachycardia. Efforts are being made to extend these techniques into the operating room, where intra-operative mapping and ablation is also possible. Dr. Van Hare's other focus is in the organization and performance of multi-center prospective studies of children with heart rhythm disorders. He is the principal investigator of an NIH-funded study entitled "Prospective Assessment after Pediatric Cardiac Ablation (PAPCA)" which currently involves >40 pediatric centers in North America.
