About Kevin Heist, MD, PhD
Dr. Kevin Heist received his MD and PhD degrees from Stanford University School of Medicine, and received an MMSc degree from the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences Training Program. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at UC San Francisco, and he then completed Fellowships in both Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology at MGH. He is the Program Director for the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at MGH.
His clinical and research interests focus on catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation (AF), supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) and ventricular tachycardia (VT), as well as implantation and followup of cardiac device therapy including pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices. He has published over 150 peer reviewed papers on these topics, and is frequently invited to give educational lectures on these subjects at major national and international meetings.
His practice is currently accepting new patients.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy (biventricular pacing)
- Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
- Catheter ablation of supraventricular tachycardia
- Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia
- Implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy
- Pacemaker therapy
- Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias
Treats:
- Adult & Pediatrics
Locations
Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center
102-104 Endicott St.
Danvers, MA 01923
Phone: 978-882-6191
Mass General Heart Center
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 866-644-8910
Mass General: Demoulas Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-4500
Medical Education
- MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Residency, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
There are two major foci to my research efforts. The first focus is identification of predictors of outcome from cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) to treat congestive heart failure. Optimization of these factors, including patient selection, device placement issues including lead site selection, device programming and patient follow-up, has been demonstrated to result in improved outcomes after CRT implantation. The second major focus is identification of anatomical and procedural variables associated with success of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) and ventricular tachycardia (VT). I am actively pursuing investigation in both of these areas at the present time, and this work has resulted in multiple publications and presentations at national meetings.
The experience was informed, professional, caring, fully satisfactory.
I was very pleased to have to see Dr. Heist. He is so knowledgeable and smart and professional and he listened to my complaint and he was really, really a caring person and I agreed with his advice immediately because I felt comfortable with him and I felt secure with him. So I am very, very pleased and I hope that the rest of my journey with him ... Read More
I think Dr. Heist is very receptive to comments. He's open, he's aware, he's available, and he's not judgmental.
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Dr. Heist and his assistant, I think it was Dr. [redacted], explained everything in great detail. They had already looked at my records prior to the appointment, so I was impressed by that. They explained things very well and treated me with great respect regarding my experience with my issue. I would highly recommend both of them to family and ... Read More
Dr. Heist is outstanding! Very thoughtful, patient, and understanding.
Dr. Heist was an excellent physician. We did a lot of talking about my health and medicines that I'm taking and things that I'm doing and he explained everything crystal clear. I feel so safe in his hands and I'm very grateful that he's my doctor. Thank you.
Dr. Heist is the consummate professional...exactly the person I want taking care of me...smart...content expert...attentive....listens...interactive...human...and not interfacing with the EPIC computer screen during the visit. [redacted]
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Dr. Heist and his staff are the best of the best