Dr. Moeen Abedin is the Director of Electrophysiology at UMC. He grew up in El Paso after his family moved to the city when he was seven years old, and Abedin said he knew what he wanted to do professionally from an early age.
“I have a sixth grade yearbook that said my aspiration was to become a cardiologist and learn about pacemakers.” Abedin said.
Electrophysiology is the study of the electrical aspects of physiological processes, such as the heart’s electrical system. It’s a field of cardiology that involves the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias.
“Most arrhythmias are due to something like a short circuit inside the heart. People, when they think of the heart, they think about arteries and heart attacks and blockages and the plumbing of the heart, but the heart has an electrical system that actually makes it beat repetitively, and that’s where electrophysiology comes in,” Abedin said.
Abedin said that he has seen the technology that allows for the study of arrhythmias has evolved dramatically, and it has changed the way patients are cared for now, which is much different than when he first began his career.
“One of the things that we want to have at UMC is to stay…on the forefront as new technologies arrive that facilitate doing procedures more efficiently and safely,” he said.
Abedin said he feels El Paso is a special place to be a physician and he finds the community and culture “warm and welcoming,” and that is reflected in the relationship he has with his patients.
“Patients in general are very appreciative that you are trying to help them. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and that applies to my life and the practice of medicine,” Abedin said. “So I try to treat people how I would want to be treated. I try to treat their family how I would want, you know, my family to be treated if I was sick.”
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