Wellstar Center for Cardiovascular Care

Dr. Sohinki received his medical degree from the University of Iowa and completed his residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He then completed his fellowship training in cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. While at OU he also received his master’s in clinical and translational science. His clinical interests are atrial fibrillation (AFib), ventricular tachycardia (VT), complex supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), device-based therapies for arrhythmias, risk factor management as therapy for arrhythmias and inherited arrhythmia syndromes. His research interests include improving outcomes after AFib ablation, device therapy in patients with congestive heart failure, mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis in patients with structural heart disease and VT, mapping of complex arrhythmias and ablation biophysics.

Dr. Sharkawi earned his medical degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where he graduated with honors. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine, where he was selected as chief medical resident. He completed his fellowship training in cardiovascular disease at the University of Connecticut. He then completed an advanced fellowship training program in interventional cardiology and structural heart disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He has participated in clinical research involving risk stratification of patients being considered for percutaneous versus surgical aortic valve replacement, improving resource utilization for patients being treated with ST-elevation myocardial infarctions, as well as studying the mechanisms of in-stent restenosis following percutaneous coronary intervention. His clinical interests are percutaneous therapies for valvular heart diseases, complex coronary interventions and cardiac critical care.