Samir Saba

Background

About Samir Saba

Samir Saba, MD received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985 from the American University of Beirut and his Medical degree in 1993 from the same institution. He then finished his training in Internal Medicine (1993-1996), in Cardiovascular Diseases and in Cardiac Electrophysiology all at the Tufts University – New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the field of Cardiac Electrophysiology. Starting in 2005, Dr. Saba was appointed chief of the Cardiac Electrophysiology section and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine and of Clinical and Translational Science in 2009. He was granted tenure by the University of Pittsburgh in August 2014 and was promoted to professor of Medicine in 2018. He assumed his current role as division chief of Cardiology and co-director of the Heart and Vascular Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in May 2019. Besides his administrative roles, Dr. Saba is an active clinician and researcher in the field of cardiac electrophysiology.