Kristen K.

Patton

MD

CONTACTS

Mailing Address:
University of Washington Medical Center,
1959 NE Pacific Street,
Box 356422,
Seattle, WA 98195-6422

Non-Clinical Administrative Support:
Lori Joubert

Clinical Contacts:
For appointments or other clinical matters, please contact the Heart Institute.

About

Dr. Patton is an electrophysiologist in the Division of Cardiology. Her clinical interests include diagnosis and management of heart rhythm disorders such as rapid or slow rhythms; evaluation for individuals at risk for cardiac arrest; implantation and management of cardiovascular implantable devices (pacemaker, implantable defibrillator, and biventricuar pacemaker-defibrillator); and ablation for supraventricular and ventricular tachycardias and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. 

She earned her bachelor's degree from the University Chicago, and her medical degree from Oregon Health Sciences University. She completed an internal medicine residency, cardiology fellowship, and electrophysiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. During her cardiology fellowship, she did research on the genetics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the Seidman laboratory at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She came to the University of Washington as an assistant professor in 2004. She is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and clinical cardiac electrophysiology.

Dr. Patton believes  in ensuring each patient feels listened to, and can act as a partner in making medical decisions. Her personal interests include reading, hiking, learning to throw to be able to pitch to small children, and cooking for friends.

Education & Training 

Clinical Fellowship in Cardiology and Electrophysiology

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

1998-2004

Research Fellowship in Cardiology

Massachusetts General Hospital Seidman Lab (Genetics), Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA

2000-2002

Residency in Internal Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

1998

MD

Oregon Health Sciences University

Portland, OR

1995

BA

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

1991

Honors 

Chair, American Heart Association Fellow and Electrocardiogram and Arrhythmias Committee

2016-2018

Best Doctors in America

2004-NOW

FDA Circulatory System Devices Panel Committee Member

American Council of Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine Review Committee Member

American College of Cardiology Fellow and Electrophysiology Section Council Member

American Heart Association Fellow and Electrocardiogram and Arrhythmias Committee Member

Heart Rhythm Society Fellow and Scientific and Clinical Documents Committee Member

American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Specialty Board Member

Alpha Omega Alpha, Medical Honor Society

1994

Research Interests 

• Cardiovascular Implanted Electronic Devices: Management, Extraction, Communication
• Inherited Arrhythmia Disorders
• Use of Simulation in Patient Care
• Teaching: Feedback, Simulation, 3D Printing
• Arrhythmia: Epidemiology and Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation Stroke and Sudden Death
• Risk prediction of sudden cardiac death; the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation: lifecourse risk factors, racial differences, genetics, and risk prediction
• Cardiovascular implanted electronic devices (CIEDs) in young adults
• Genetics, pharmacotherapy, cardiac rhythm devices in athletes

Clinical Interests 

• Arrhythmia Diagnosis and Management
• Electrophysiology
• Cardiac Pacemaker and Defibrillator Implantation and Management, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, CIED, Lead Extraction
• Ablation
• Management of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices; Inherited Arrhythmia Disorders

Publications