Hakan Paydak

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Professor

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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Internal Med, College of Medicine

20 h-index 154 pubs 2,213 cited

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Hakan Paydak, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where he directs the cardiac electrophysiology program and laboratory. He received his medical degree from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in Turkey and completed his cardiology and clinical cardiac electrophysiology training at Case Western Reserve University Hospital and the University of Chicago Hospital. Before joining UAMS in 2009, Dr. Paydak was on staff at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and clinical cardiac electrophysiology, and holds fellowships in the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Rhythm Society.

Dr. Paydak's research interests include the study of anticoagulants, particularly direct oral anticoagulants versus warfarin in the context of left ventricular thrombus, and the use of oral anticoagulation following catheter ablation for atrial flutter. His work also examines various cardiac conditions and treatments, including inappropriate sinus tachycardia following viral illness, theophylline in the treatment of COVID-19 induced sinus bradycardia, and meta-analyses on electrode positioning for biphasic cardioversion in atrial fibrillation. He has also investigated the recurrence of complete heart block in pregnancy and reproducible asystole following vagal nerve stimulator lead replacement.

With 154 total publications and an h-index of 20, Dr. Paydak is recognized as a highly cited researcher. His collaborations at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences include extensive work with Subodh Devabhaktuni, Srikanth Vallurupalli, John Paul Mounsey, and Fuad Habash, with whom he shares multiple publications.

Research Overview

Hakan Paydak, M.D. is professor of medicine and director of cardiac electrophysiology program and laboratory at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey and trained in cardiology and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Case Western Reserve University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio and University of Chicago Hospital in Illinois. Prior to joining UAMS faculty in 2009, Dr. Paydak was on staff at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. Dr. Paydak is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and Heart Rhythm Society. He is also a member of Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, American College of Physicians and the American Society of Internal Medicine.

Metrics

h-index: 20
Publications: 154
Citations: 2,213

Selected Publications

Case Report: A case of heart failure recovery after non-ischemic cardiomyopathy following chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (2026) DOI
Impact of Obesity in Hospitalized Patients Undergoing Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation (2025) DOI
Dual-morphology Bundle Branch Re-entrant Ventricular Tachycardia in Non-dilated Cardiomyopathy (2025) DOI
Metformin: Its salutary effects beyond diabetes mellitus (2025) DOI
Oral theophylline corrects sinus node dysfunction in acute on chronic lithium toxicity: case report and systematic review of lithium-induced Sinus node dysfunction (2024) DOI
Cool-down Phenomenon in Differentiating Supraventricular Tachycardias (2024) DOI
Inappropriate Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator Shocks—A Rare Case of Triple Counting (2023) DOI
Prior Statin vs In-Hospital Statin Usage in Severe COVID-19: Review and Meta-Analysis (2023) DOI
TO STUDY THE OUTCOMES OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN THE PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY AND AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANT AT THE MYELOMA CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES (UAMS), LITTLE ROCK, AR (2023) DOI
WAVELET DECOMPOSITION USING FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMFOR THE PREDICTION OF INCIDENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ON ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY (2023) DOI
Abstract 15427: Reduction of Epicardial Fat, Clinical Risk Factors & Symptomatology in Paroxysmal AF Patient With Severe Aortic Stenosis and Metabolic Syndrome via Mobile Cardiometabolic Health & Weight Loss Program (2022) DOI
Meta-Analysis Comparing Anterior-Lateral Versus Anterior-Posterior Electrode Position for Biphasic Cardioversion in Atrial Fibrillation (2022) DOI
Reproducible asystole following vagal nerve stimulator lead replacement: a case report (2022) DOI
Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on In-Hospital Outcomes among Hospitalizations for Cardiac Surgery: An Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample (2022) DOI
Utilizing the Cool-Down Phenomenon to Differentiate Supraventricular Tachycardias in a Patient with COVID-19 Infection (2021) DOI

Research Interests

12 YEARS OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY RESEARCH AT UAMS I have had 60 of my 69 peer reviewed publications, with the guidance of Dr. Jay Mehta and contributions of many faculty, fellows, residents and medical students. As a result of this teamwork, we have been honored to receive the Dr. James Marsh Research Award in 2021. Our two main manuscripts were database driven large population studies that were published in Circulation. However, we have also published many purely UAMS patient database driven studies. Our recently published case report in JAMA has paved the way for our study titled: “The Sensitivity of Graphic Trends in Differentiating Sinus and Supraventricular Tachycardia”, which will be published in the Journal of Electrocardiology. The future of our Electrophysiology research efforts at UAMS will utilize Artificial Intelligence to guide us place the left ventricular lead to the best spot in the heart in our NIH sponsored study.; Cardiac Electrophysiology; Atrial Flutter; Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac Arrhythmias; Antiarrhythmic Drugs; Ablation, Radiofrequency Catheter