Dr. Indik is an electrophysiologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she also holds the Flynn Foundation and American Heart Association Endowed Chair in Electrophysiology. She is currently the Program Director for the Electrophysiology fellowship program at the University of Arizona, having previously served for 15 years as the director for the Cardiology fellowship program.
She has served on the writing committees for clinical practice documents and guidelines from the national cardiology societies. She has a particular interest in promoting education and lifelong learning. This has included her participation in question writing for the In-Training-Examinations for cardiology and electrophysiology fellows and her role as Editor-In-Chief for Performance Question Writing for the ACC’s Collaborative Maintenance Pathway for board certification.
Study of Left Atrial Voltage in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation:
We have designed a customized, novel computational platform (in MATLAB) that uses the exported voltage data from an EP study and performs a scaled coordinate transformation to a standardized coordinate system to permit an automated way to compare voltage in regions of interest between different patients. With this platform we are investigating how left atrial voltage varies between different regions of the left atrium and what patient characteristics are associated with fibrosis. Improving our understanding of left atrial fibrosis and cardiomyopathy may help us improve our understanding of atrial fibrillation as a disease process that places patients at risk for heart failure and stroke. Fellows will also have an opportunity to learn the statistical methods needed for this analysis, including multivariable regression analysis.
Quality Improvement Initiative in Ambulatory Monitoring:
We are also initiating a quality improvement project this year to examine how we choose ambulatory event monitoring for our patients in both the inpatient and clinic settings. We want to improve how we choose which patients should be monitored and what is the most appropriate monitoring choice - whether an MCOT (mobile continuous telemetry) or Holter (“epatch”) concept and duration. This will require a comprehensive review of the literature on the topic of best practices for ambulatory monitoring.
Read more of Dr. Indik's research here.
