My Biography
Dr. J. Anthony Gomes, also Antonio Gomes (nome de plume) and commonly referred to as Tony, hails originally from Goa, India. He studied in both English (in Mumbai) and Portuguese (in Goa). Besides English, he fluently speaks Portuguese, Spanish, Konkani (local Goan language) and understands French and Hindi. He immigrated to the US in 1970 after medical school.
After specializing in Cardiology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center and VA Hospital in the Bronx, he super specialized in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the USPHS Cardiopulmonary Laboratory under the tutelage of Dr. Anthony N. Damato, He subsequently joined the the Downstate Medical School and Center as Director of the Coronary Care Unit and Electrophysiology Laboratory at the VA Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. He was subsequently recruited by the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, as Head of its Cardiac Electrophysiology and Electrocardiography Department which he established in 1984. He is currently a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Electrophysiology Consultative Services at a Senior Consultant at the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Center for Cardiac Electrophysiology and the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, The Mount Sinai Medical Center. A pioneer in the field of Cardiac Electrophysiology, he is credited for establishing the first modern Cardiac Electrophysiology section and Laboratory in NYC.
He has been consistently listed in the Best Doctors and Top Doctors in New York (New York Magazine), The Best Doctors in America, and featured in Indians in NY and India Abroad. He has authored more than 180 original scientific publications, more than 10 Chapters in National/International textbooks of Cardiology, lectured at National and International Symposia, and published d two textbooks in Cardiology entitled Signal Averaged Electrocardiography: Concepts, Methods and Applications (Kluwer Academic Press., 1993) and Heart Rhythm Disorders: History, Mechanisms and Management Perspectives (Springer-Nature, 2020). His third book written for internists, medical students and the lay public in general is entitled: Rhythms of Broken Hearts due to be published in mid 2021.