Dr. Walid Saliba is a staff cardiologist in the Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Saliba is also the Medical Director of the EP lab and Director of the Atrial Fibrillation Center. He is trained in all aspects of clinical cardiac electrophysiology and pacing, including catheter ablation, epicardial access, LAA occlusion, implantation of cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators and extraction of implanted pacemaker and ICD leads using laser technology.
A native of Lebanon, Dr. Saliba did his undergraduate work at the American University of Beirut, continued at the American University and earned his medical degree. He is fluent in English, French and Arabic. He moved to the United States where he completed an internship and residency program in internal medicine at Duke University, a fellowship in Cardiology from Baylor College. The Cleveland Clinic awarded him a fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology and he was appointed to Cleveland Clinic as a staff cardiac electrophysiologist in 1999.
Dr. Saliba’s research has focused on topics related to new treatments of atrial fibrillation, stroke prevention strategies and pericardial ablation. He has been a guest lecturer and authored or co-authored numerous articles in leading scientific journals.
Dr. Saliba is a member of the American College of Cardiology and fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society.