Dr. Ptaszek received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and then completed fellowships in cardiology and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. Dr. Ptaszek is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and MGH.His clinical interests focus on the management of patients with heart rhythm disorders. Dr. Ptaszek performs catheter ablations of supraventricular tachycardias (SVTs) and premature ventricular contractions (PVCs). He also implants pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices. His research interests include the development of novel ablation catheters and high-resolution arrhythmia mapping systems.
He was very knowledgeable,professional and patient with my questions.
He is the greatest
Everyone in this office is caring and helpful. Best staff!!
Outstanding, empathetic, and extremely knowledgeable. That's how I would discuss Dr. Leon Ptaszek.
Interesting to learn of the procedure.
Yes, he was extremely professional but also very approachable, very knowledgeable. He spent a lot of time with me as I had quite a lot of things over the last few months and a lot of concerns and questions. He probably spent some of the most time I've had with a provider in a long time where I didn't feel rushed and he helped me at ease, he made ... Read More
he was great very helpful
The quality of care was very good, but clearly was overbooked as it took me 1.5 hours after my appointment time to see him.
This is my first visit with the doctor. He had read MyChart carefully before coming the exam room, understood the nature of my arythemia(sp?) and came up with prudent path to understand my heart rate issues better. [redacted]
Always very professional and compassionate. Highly recommend