David Douglass Spragg, M.D.

DAVID D. SPRAGG, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology, specializing in electrophysiology. He serves as the director of the Atrial Fibrillation Research Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital and is the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Spragg’s areas of clinical investigation are cardiac resynchronization therapy and therapies for atrial fibrillation. He has authored over 100 original research publications, including over 15 first and last-author publications.  An active educator and mentor, he has served as the primary research mentor for eight fellows over the last decade, including medical residents, Atrial Fibrillation research fellows, and clinical cardiology fellows. In addition, Dr. Spragg has been a member of the cardiovascular instruction team for the Genes to Society course for second-year medical students at the Johns Hopkins SOM since 2009, serving as both a small-group leader and lecturer each year.