Provider Name:
Peter Karpawich, M.D.
Academic Appointment: Professor
Provider Specialty:
Cardiology
Areas of Clinical Focus:
Cardiac Electrophysiology/Arrhythmia Management/Pacemaker/ICD/Congenital Heart Disease
Areas of Research/Scholarship Focus:
Cardiac Electrophysiology/Arrhythmias/Pacemaker/ICD/CRT Heart Failure Pacing/Congenital Heart
Board Certification(s):
American Board of Pediatrics/Sub-board Pediatric Cardiology
Primary Practice Name:
Children's Hospital of MI
Primary Practice Address:
3901 Beaubien - 4th Floor
City:
Detroit
State:
MI
ZIP Code:
48307
Practice Phone Number:
(313)745-5481
Practice Fax:
(313)966-2423
Other Practicing Locations:
Accepted Insurance:
We accept most types on insurance. Please call to confirm that your carrier is on our list.
Languages Spoken: English/French
Medical School:
Hahnemann/Drexel School of Medicine
Internship:
University Texas
Residency:
University Texas
Fellowship:
Baylor University
Selected Publications:
Karpawich PP, Hakimi M, Arciniegas E, Cavitt DL: Improved Chronic Epicardial Pacing in Children: Steroid Contribution to Porous Platinized Electrodes. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 15:1151-1157, 1992.
Karpawich PP, Gates J, Stokes KB: Septal His-Purkinje Ventricular Pacing in Canines: A New Endocardial Electrode Approach. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 15: 2011-2015, 1992.
Karpawich PP, Rabah R, Padiyar N, Haas J: Altered Cardiac Histology Following Apical Right Ventricular Pacing. in Patients with Congenital Atrioventricular Block. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 22: 1372 – 1377, 1999
Karpawich PP: Chronic Right Ventricular Pacing and Cardiac Performance: The Pediatric Perspective. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 27: No 6: 844-849, 2004
Karpawich PP: New Directions in Pacemaker Therapy among Children and Adult Patients with Congenital Heart Disease. Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy 5: 611-613, 2007.
Buddhe S, Singh H, Du W, Karpawich PP. Radiofrequency and Cryoablation Therapies for Supraventricular Arrhythmias in the Young: Five Year Review of Efficacies. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 2012; 35: 711-717.
Bansal N, Samuel S, Zelin K, Karpawich PP. Ten-Year Performance of the Lumenless, Catheter-delivered, 4.1-French Diameter Pacing Lead in Patients with and without Congenital Heart Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 2017, Jan;40(1):17-25.
Karpawich PP, Bansal N, Samuel S, Sanil Y, Zelin K. 16 Years of Cardiac Resynchronization Pacing among Congenital Heart Disease Patients: Direct Contractility (dP/dt) Screening when the Guidelines do not Apply. J Amer Coll Cardiol-EP 2017, 3, No 8: 830-841.
Writing Committee Members, Shah MJ, Silka MJ, Silva JNA, Balaji S, Beach CM, Benjamin MN, Berul CI, Cannon B, Cecchin F, Cohen MI, Dalal AS, Dechert BE, Foster A, Gebauer R, Gonzalez Corcia MC, Kannankeril PJ, Karpawich PP, Kim JJ, Krishna MR, Kubuš P, LaPage MJ, Mah DY, Malloy-Walton L, Miyazaki A, Motonaga KS, Niu MC, Olen M, Paul T, Rosenthal E, Saarel EV, Silvetti MS, Stephenson EA, Tan RB, Triedman J, Bergen NHV, Wackel PL.
2021 PACES Expert Consensus Statement on the Indications and Management of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices in Pediatric Patients: Developed in collaboration with and endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) Endorsed by the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), the Indian Heart Rhythm Society (IHRS), and the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS).JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2021 Nov;7(11):1437-1472
Awards/Honors:
School of Medicine Teaching Awards; Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award; "Best Doctors in Detroit" Hour Magazine; "Super Doctor" Detroit News & Free Press; Castle Connolly America's Top Doctor; "Top Detroit Pediatrician"
