Shanti Bansal, MD


After completing his Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science degree at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD in 2000, Dr. Bansal entered medical school at Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL where he received his MD degree in June 2004. He then completed his residency training including specialized research in cardiovascular medicine in 2007 at the University of Chicago. Following residency, he entered a Cardiology Fellowship at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT where he focused on nuclear cardiology and electrophysiology, finishing in 2010. He then entered a Cardiology Fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center/Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles with advanced academic work in ablation techniques and devices. He completed his studies at Harbor-UCLA in 2011.
Dr. Bansal currently practices clinical electrophysiology treating patients with arrhythmia and cardiac issues at the Atrial Fibrillation Center Of America medical practice serving northwest Houston. His specialties include atrial fibrillation ablations as well as proficiencies in device implantation/management and ablation techniques. He is board certified in Internal Medicine (2010), Nuclear Cardiology (2011), Cardiology (2011), and Electrophysiology (2013) and served as an electrophysiologist with Houston Arrhythmia Associate from 2011 to 2018. In order to provide a greater level of care, Dr. Bansal founded Houston Heart Rhythm and Atrial Fibrillation Centers of America.
Presently, Dr. Bansal is affiliated with multiple hospitals including Methodist Willowbrook Hospital, North Cypress Medical Center, Houston Northwest Medical Center. Dr. Bansal has an extensive list of research publications, abstracts, and presentations to his credit and is a member of numerous professional and academic societies including the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.
Dr. Bansal’s medical philosophy is centered on establishing care driven, the one-on-one doctor-patient relationship which affords each patient the highest levels of cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatments. He believes that delivering compassionate care is the highest calling of the medical arts and conducts his practice based on this philosophy.