Elizabeth Dewitt, MD

Dr. DeWitt completed medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, and then came to the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center for internship and residency in Pediatrics. She stayed on for Cardiology fellowship, during which time she served as Chief Fellow. She completed a senior fellowship in Electrophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. DeWitt is currently a member of the Electrophysiology Division at Boston Children’s Hospital. She takes care of patients with heart rhythm disorders, in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. She also performs arrhythmia ablations and pacemaker, defibrillator and implantable loop recorder implants. In addition, she cares for patients with inherited cardiomyopathies and associated arrhythmias, including arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. She is the Electrophysiology representative for the Heterotaxy Program and the Medical Director of the Surgical …Electrophysiology Program, an intradisciplinary program that aims to improve outcomes for patients. The current focus of this clinical program and research efforts is to decrease postoperative heart block by using electrophysiology mapping to identify conduction tissue at the time of the surgical repair.