Dr. Sarina van der Zee is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiac Electrophysiology.  She practices at the Pacific Heart Institute, where her specialty is interventional therapies for arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia, as well as pacemaker/defibrillator management.  She is particularly interested in arrhythmias in women and athletes.   She is part of the Women’s Heart Center at Pacific Heart Institute, as well as an athlete’s screening program.

After graduating from Yale University, she was awarded a Fulbright-Netherlands America Foundation scholarship to study drug metabolism at a preeminent laboratory in the northern Netherlands, where her family is from.

Her medical training was at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2004.  After internship and residency in Internal Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, she completed Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowships at Mount Sinai Medical Center.  She joined Pacific Heart Institute in 2011.  

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