Cardiac electrophysiology is a branch of cardiology and basic science focusing on the electrical activities of the heart. The term is usually used in clinical context, to describe studies of such phenomena by invasive (intracardiac) catheter recording of spontaneous activity as well as of cardiac responses to programmed electrical stimulation - clinical cardiac electrophysiology. However, cardiac electrophysiology also encompasses basic research and translational research components. Specialists studying cardiac electrophysiology, either clinically or solely through research, are known as cardiac electrophysiologists.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1893, the School of Medicine shares a campus with Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Children's Center, established in 1889.
The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It was established in 1829 after the Montreal Medical Institution was incorporated into McGill College as the college's first faculty; it was the first medical faculty to be established in Canada. The Faculty awarded McGill's first degree, and Canada's first medical degree to William Leslie Logie in 1833.
Frans Jozef Thomas Wackers is a Dutch American clinical cardiologist and research scientist known for his contributions to nuclear cardiology. In 1974, he explored a new way of visualizing heart disease. He pioneered using the radioisotope thallium-201 for heart imaging, which started a new cardiology sub-specialty, later called Nuclear Cardiology. Wackers was the director of the Cardiovascular Nuclear Imaging and Stress Laboratories at Yale School of Medicine for 22 years. In 2008, he became a Professor Emeritus at Yale University. On January 1, 2013, Wackers fully retired from clinical and scientific responsibilities.
Eugene Braunwald is an Austrian-born American cardiologist.
Stanley J. Sarnoff was an American doctor who produced over 200 papers and 60 patents during his long career. His work included the development of such widely used devices as the "auto-injector," which included the AtroPen, which was filled with Atropine Hydrochloride as an anti-nerve-gas antidote for military use; the LidoPen, which was filled with Lidocaine hydrochloride, for cardiac patients, the EpiPen, containing Epinephrine, for people whose allergies cause anaphylaxis, and the 24-hour cardiac monitor. In addition to his own work, he was devoted to philanthropy and, though the creation of The Stanley J Sarnoff Endowment for Cardiovascular Science, he has helped to inspire medical students and cardiology fellows from around the country to pursue cardiovascular research.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) is the graduate medical school of Vanderbilt University, a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee. The School of Medicine is primarily housed within the Eskind Biomedical Library which sits at the intersection of the Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) campuses and claims several Nobel laureates in the field of medicine. Through the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, VUSM is affiliated with over 60 hospitals and 5,000 clinicians across Tennessee and five neighboring states which manage more than 2 million patient visits each year. As the home hospital of the medical school, VUMC is considered one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and is the primary resource for specialty and primary care in hundreds of adult and pediatric specialties for patients throughout the Mid-South.
Mark E. Josephson (1943-2017) was an American cardiologist and writer, who was in the 1970s one of the American pioneers of the medical cardiology subspecialty of cardiac electrophysiology. His book titled Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations is widely acknowledged as the definitive treatment of the discipline. He served as Herman Dana Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute and Arrhythmia Service and the chief of cardiology at Harvard University's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
William Clifford Roberts was an American physician specializing in cardiac pathology.
Catherine Annie Neill was a British pediatric cardiologist who spent the majority of her career at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, where she worked alongside Helen B. Taussig. Her primary interest was congenital heart defects; she discovered one type of defect, scimitar syndrome, in 1960.
Robert Roberts, is a cardiologist, geneticist, academic, and medical researcher.
Charles Kaye Friedberg (1905–1972) was an American cardiologist, known for his medical textbook Diseases of the Heart, which was a standard reference in cardiology during the 1950s and 1960s.
Wallace Bruce Fye is an American retired cardiologist, medical historian, writer, bibliophile and philanthropist. He is emeritus professor of medicine and the history of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and was the founding director of the institution's W. Bruce Fye Center for the History of Medicine.
Douglas L. Mann is an American physician. He is currently the Ada L. Steininger Professor of Cardiology and professor of medicine, cell biology and physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Lee Goldman is an American cardiologist and educator at Columbia University, where he is professor of medicine at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and dean emeritus of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine. From 2006 to 2020 he served as executive vice president and dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, chief executive officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor of the university. Before moving to Columbia, he was chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his B.A., M.D., and M.P.H. degrees from Yale University.
Shelby Kutty is an Indian-born American cardiologist, a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds the Helen B. Taussig endowed professorship at Johns Hopkins and is Director of the Helen B. Taussig Heart Center and the chair of Cardiovascular Analytic Intelligence Initiative at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He currently serves as the editor of American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology and Cardiology in the Young and as consulting editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Prior to this, he held the title of assistant dean for research and development and vice chair of pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine. Kutty has published over 400 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Mark Edwin Silverman MD MACP FACC, was an American cardiologist, medical historian, medical educator and author of more than 200 medical articles and a number of books, who founded the cardiology program at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
Charles Michael Gibson is an American interventional cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, cardiovascular researcher, and professor at Harvard Medical School. He is best known for inventing the TIMI frame count and the TIMI myocardial perfusion grade, measures of coronary blood flow.
Deepak L. Bhatt is a US interventional cardiologist, researcher, and educator. He is known for novel clinical trials in cardiovascular prevention, intervention, and heart failure. As of 2024, he is the director of Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital in New York City and the Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System. Prior, he served as the executive director of Interventional Cardiovascular programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was given the American College of Cardiology's Distinguished Mentor Award in 2018, and in 2019, the American Heart Association presented him with its Distinguished Scientist award. As of 2024, Google Scholar reports that he has been cited 279,202 times, has an h-index of 194, and an i10-index of 1,249.
Quinn Capers IV is an American cardiologist. He is a professor of medicine and the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Howard University College of Medicine. Capers has won numerous awards as a clinician-educator and advocate of diversity enhancement in medicine as an evidence-based method to reduce health disparities. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology.
