Richard S. Shelton

Description

My interest in medicine began as a fascination with how body function can often be explained with well known laws of physics. Eventually, I began clinical training and practice while continuing research of stress and cardiovascular conditions. By the time I started to research electrophysiology and heart rhythms, I realized that I had found the apex of enjoyment in treating and studying human physiology and disease. I continue to enjoy treating cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease in my daily work. Currently, I do a full range of cardiac electrophysiology clinical practice at the Salt Lake City VA Health System, run the barostimulator implantation program for heart failure at the VA, and run the cardiac autonomic nervous system dysfunction clinic at the University of Utah. I have managed to become well acquainted with the treatment of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and inappropriate sinus tachycardia patients. We have helped many with this multisystemic disease and hope to find more effective treatments for them in the future.