Rajasekhar Nekkanti, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology
Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship Program
Director, Continuing Medical Education-Cardiovascular Series
252-744-4176
252-561-9096
Mailing Address:
East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU
115 Heart Drive, Greenville, NC 27834
Specialties
- Cardiovascular Disease
Board Certification
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- Cardiovascular Disease
- American College of Nutrition
- American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Echocardiography
- International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners
- Cardiac Electrophysiology
Education
- Medical School: University of Health Sciences, 1992
- Internship: University of Health Sciences, 1993
- Residency: St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers of New York, 1997
- Fellowship: St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers of New York, 2000;
- University of Alabama Birmingham, 2002
Publications
Matchett, M., Sears, S. F. , Hazelton, G., Kirian, K., Wilson, E., & Nekkanti, R., (2009). The implantable cardioverter defibrillator: its history, current psychological impact and future. Expert Review of Medical Devices, 6 (1), 43-50.
Shammas, R. L., Khan, N. U. , Nekkanti, R., & Movahed, A. (2007). Diastolic Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction: What We Know and What We Don’t Know. International Journal of Cardiology (115), 284-289.