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Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

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Mark E. Josephson

Mark E. Josephson (1943–2017) was an American cardiologist who pioneered clinical cardiac electrophysiology, standardized left ventricular mapping enabling catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia, and led programs at Penn and Harvard's Beth Israel.

Mark S. Link

Mark S. Link is an American cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for his 1998 commotio cordis model.

Mark T. Keating

Mark T. Keating is an American molecular cardiologist who discovered the first arrhythmia genes and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Martin Morad

Martin Morad is a cardiac electrophysiologist and calcium signaling researcher who holds an endowed chair at the Medical University of South Carolina and directs the Cardiac Signaling Center.

Maurits A. Allessie

Maurits A. Allessie (born 1945) is a Dutch physiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist at Maastricht University who developed the leading circle model and showed that atrial fibrillation begets atrial fibrillation.

Mehdi Saeed Hazari

Mehdi Saeed Hazari is an American research physiologist at the U.S. EPA who studies how inhaled pollutants like particulate matter trigger heart arrhythmia, winning a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

Melvin M. Scheinman

Melvin M. Scheinman is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor Emeritus at UCSF, who performed the first catheter ablation in humans in 1981 and helped found cardiac electrophysiology.

Michael C. Sanguinetti

Michael C. Sanguinetti is a cardiac electrophysiologist and professor emeritus at the University of Utah whose work identified the hERG channel underlying long QT syndrome and drug safety testing.

Michael D. Ezekowitz

Michael D. Ezekowitz is a South African-trained American cardiologist whose 1992 warfarin trial established stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation and who co-led the RE-LY dabigatran trial.

Michael H. Gollob

Michael H. Gollob is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist and geneticist who holds the Peter Munk Chair at Toronto General Hospital and is known for gene discoveries in Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome and atrial fibrillation.

Michael J. Ackerman

Michael J. Ackerman is an American physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who directs the Long QT Syndrome Clinic and leads the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory.

Mintu P. Turakhia

Mintu P. Turakhia, also known as Mintu Turakhia, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto, known for the 2019 Apple Heart Study.

N.A. Mark Estes

N.A. Mark Estes, full name Mark Nathan Anthony Estes, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directed the New England Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Tufts for three decades.

Paul Dorian

Paul Dorian is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and University of Toronto professor known for the 2002 ALIVE trial comparing amiodarone with lidocaine in cardiac arrest.

Paul Khairy

Paul Khairy is a Canadian cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, known for establishing arrhythmias in adult congenital heart disease as a subspecialty.

Paul Zoll

Paul Maurice Zoll was an American cardiologist at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School who showed in 1952 that the heart could be paced through the closed chest.

Paulus Kirchhof

Paulus Kirchhof is a German cardiologist and electrophysiologist who directs cardiology at the University Heart and Vascular Center in Hamburg and led the EAST-AFNET 4 trial.

Peng-Sheng Chen

Peng-Sheng Chen is a cardiac electrophysiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for research on the autonomic nervous system in atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death.

Peter J. Schwartz

Peter J. Schwartz is an Italian cardiologist known for his work on long QT syndrome and the autonomic nervous system, directing cardiac genetics research in Milan.

Peter Zimetbaum

Peter J. Zimetbaum is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs clinical cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Cardiology at Harvard Medical School.

Philippe Coumel

Philippe Coumel (1935–2004) was a French cardiologist and clinical electrophysiologist who spent his career at Hôpital Lariboisière in Paris, introducing programmed electrical stimulation, the triangle of arrhythmogenesis, and Coumel's law.

Prashanthan Sanders

Prashanthan Sanders is an Australian cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who directs the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Raymond E. Ideker

Raymond E. Ideker is an American cardiac electrophysiologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for research on the mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation.

Reinoud E. Knops

Reinoud E. Knops (born 1971) is a Dutch cardiologist and professor of clinical electrophysiology at Amsterdam UMC, who led the PRAETORIAN trial of subcutaneous defibrillators.

Richard J. Cohen

Richard J. Cohen is an American physician-scientist in cardiac electrophysiology and biomedical engineering who joined the MIT faculty in 1979 and developed the microvolt T-wave alternans test for sudden cardiac death risk.

Robert J. Myerburg

Robert J. Myerburg is an American cardiologist and professor at the University of Miami whose research centers on sudden cardiac death, from risk prediction to prevention.

Sami Viskin

Sami Viskin (Samuel Viskin) is an Israeli cardiologist and researcher on inherited arrhythmias at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and editor in chief of the journal Heart Rhythm since 2024.

Sana M. Al‐Khatib

Sana M. Al-Khatib is a Professor of Medicine at Duke University and clinical cardiac electrophysiologist known for research on implantable defibrillators and for chairing the 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS sudden cardiac death guideline.

Silvia G. Priori

Silvia G. Priori (Silvia Giuliana Priori), born 1960 in Torino, is an Italian cardiologist at the University of Pavia known for genetic research on inherited arrhythmias and gene therapy.

Stanley Nattel

Stanley Nattel, born in 1951, is a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, a global authority on atrial fibrillation appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2024.