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Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

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Stefan H. Hohnloser

Stefan H. Hohnloser is a German cardiologist specializing in clinical electrophysiology, professor emeritus at University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, known for leading the ATHENA and RE-DUAL PCI trials.

Steven O. Marx

Steven O. Marx is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at Columbia University who studies ion channel regulation in arrhythmias and heart failure, and directs its cardiovascular fellowship program.

Stuart J. Connolly

Stuart J. Connolly (1949–2024) was a Canadian cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known for trials that reshaped stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

Sunao Tawara

Sunao Tawara (田原淳), 1873 to 1952, was a Japanese pathologist at Kyushu University who discovered the AV node and mapped the heart's conduction system in his 1906 monograph.

Vivek Y. Reddy

Vivek Y. Reddy, also published as Vivek Reddy, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs Cardiac Arrhythmia Services at Mount Sinai and led the pivotal ADVENT trial of pulsed field ablation.

Warren M. Jackman

Warren M. Jackman is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center whose landmark 1991 and 1992 papers made catheter ablation a curative treatment for supraventricular tachycardias.

Wilhelm His (cardiologist)

Wilhelm His Jr. was a Swiss-born cardiologist who worked in Germany and in 1893 gave the first description of the heart's atrioventricular bundle, now named the bundle of His.

William G. Stevenson

William G. Stevenson is an American cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center since 2017, known for catheter ablation and cardiac mapping for ventricular tachycardia.

Wojciech Zaręba

Wojciech Zaręba is a cardiologist at the University of Rochester and inaugural David Mortara Endowed Professor in Cardiology, known for noninvasive electrocardiology and the MADIT-CRT and MADIT-RIT trials.

Woldemar Mobitz

Woldemar Mobitz (1889–1951) was a German internist and cardiologist, born in St. Petersburg, who in 1924 classified second-degree AV block into the two types that still carry his name.

Xander H.T. Wehrens

Xander H.T. Wehrens (Xander Wehrens) is a Dutch-born physician-scientist who directs the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine and studies calcium handling in cardiac arrhythmias.