Edward Patrick Walsh MD

Dr. Edward Walsh is the Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital, where he is also the founder and head of the Cardiac Electrophysiology program. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, having first joined the Harvard medical faculty in 1985 as an Instructor. Instrumental in helping develop new technology that electrically maps the heart, providing an extremely detailed way to see where complex arrhythmias originate, as part of the Boston Children's Electrophysiology Service, Dr. Walsh's innovations have contributed to the development of catheter-based procedures that allow the treatment of arrhythmias with extreme precision. Notably, Dr. Walsh and his team have used the technology to address complex arrhythmias in more congenital heart patients than in any other hospital in the world.

Dr. Walsh has focused his clinical research on catheter ablation for atrial and ventricular tachycardias in both pediatric and adult patients with complex congenital heart disease. The complex intracardiac anatomy in these patients requires a unique understanding of the underlying structural anomalies and the various surgical techniques used for repair, which Dr. Walsh has always found to be a very satisfying challenge. His clinical practice includes three days per week performing these procedures and providing care to hospitalized cardiac patients, one-day seeing outpatients, and one day for research, teaching, and administrative duties.