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Biographical Sketch
Richard Sterba, MD, has been a Staff Physician at Cleveland Clinic for more than 25 years. He is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology. He trained in electrophysiology at Duke University Medical Center. He is a member of both the Pediatric Institute & Children's Hospital and the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute.
His clinical area of expertise is congenital cardiac abnormalities. In pediatric aged patients, specifically arrhythmia management, cardiac problems in athletes, pediatric syncope and pediatric cardiology. He has a special interests in the use of cardiac ablation to treat supraventricular tachycardia, especially in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, and also the evaluation and treatment of individuals with the Long QT syndrome. He has experience in and evaluates adult patients with congenital heart disease.
He has received a Top Doctor Award by Cleveland magazine for the past seven years. He evaluates patients on main campus, and at the Wooster and Lorain campuses.
Specialty Interests
adult congenital heart disease, arrhythmias and ablation in pediatric patients, cardiac problems in athletes, pediatric cardiology, Syncope, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Awards & Honors
Best Doctor Award, Cleveland magazine, 2005-2011
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