Professor Anand Ganesan

Professor Anand Ganesan is a cardiac electrophysiologist, and clinician-scientist.

He undertook his MBBS at the University of Sydney(2000), PhD at Johns Hopkins University (2006), FRACP (cardiology) at Westmead Hospital (2010), and Postdoc at the Uni of Adelaide (2011-2014).

Professor Ganesan is Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Flinders Medical Centre, and Group Leader, Cardiac Signals Analysis Lab, Flinders University. My group is interested in developing an objective, biophysics-based approach to the mapping and treatment of human AF.

Atrial fibrillation is the most common human arrhythmia. It occurs due to the disorganised electrical activation of the upper heart chambers.

A characteristic property of AF is that mini-tornadoes of electricity are continuously formed and destroyed. We have studied the formation and destruction of the topological holes at the centre of these holes called phase singularities, and we have found that they can be accurately statistically characterised, and led us to governing equations in cardiac fibrillation.

My team is working on establishing this way of thinking about AF scientifically. We have shown that the rates at which spiral waves are generated in AF (and, with some qualifications VF), converge to stable rates called renewal rates.

We are dedicated to using topological approaches from physics to study AF and related heart rhythm disorders, in order to develop practical applications to improve the treatment, especially ablation. We welcome email or Twitter enquiries from potential clinical & research fellows and students.