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| UMN Heart Forum at GWICC 008 |
| David G. Benditt |
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David G. Benditt, obtained his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and M.D. degree from the University of Manitoba. Thereafter, Dr Benditt joined the faculty of the Cardiovascular Division in the Dept of Medicine at the University of Minnesota where he established its training and research program in clinical cardiac electrophysiology. Dr. Benditt is currently a professor of medicine and co-director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at the University of Minnesota. He has been the President of both the American Heart Association-Minnesota Affiliate and the North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE). He is a fellow of both the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). He is a member of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA). He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), The Journal of Cardiac Electrophysiology, and the American Journal of Cardiology (AJC). His principal research interests are directed toward the fields of autonomic control as it applies to syncope (fainting), and implantable and external devices for cardiac rhythm management. |
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Fei Lu |
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Dr. Fei Lü is an associate professor of medicine and the Director of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories at University of Minnesota Medical Center. He has broad research interests spinning from single cells, intact animals to patients. Dr Lü has well published in the fields of risk stratification for sudden cardiac death, neurological cardiology, and physiological pacing. His clinical interests focus on patients with life-threatening arrhythmias, catheter ablation of difficult tachycardia and device therapy for improving cardiac function and survival.
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| Ganesh Raveendran |
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Ganesh Raveendran is an assistant professor of medicine at Division of Cardiology of University of Minnesota and an Interventional cardiologist at University of Minnesota Medical Center. Prior to joining University of Minnesota, Dr Raveendran was a senior associate consultant at Mayo Clinic and Instructor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of medicine. Dr. Raveendran’s research interests are in clinical trial methodology and analysis relating to pharmacologic studies of cardiac interventional procedures, as well as in the use of stem cells in acute myocardial infarction and heart failure patients. Dr. Raveendran was an Intern and Resident at Wayne State University, Michigan and did Fellowships at Baylor college of Medicine, Houston and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He obtained a masters degree in clinical research design and statistical analysis at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
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| Kenneth Liao |
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Kenneth Liao, MD, PhD, FACS is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon with special interests in heart transplantation, implantation of ventricular assist device, and minimally invasive heart surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. He is the Surgical Director of Heart Transplant Program and Head of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Program at the University of Minnesota. He is a fellow of American College of Surgeons. Dr Liao received his postgraduate training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Brookdale University Medical Center in New York, and University of Minnesota Medical Center. He is well known for his innovative cardiac surgical skills. Dr. Liao is an author of over 60 journal articles and abstracts. He has received multiple national and regional awards for his outstanding research.
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Marc Pritzker |
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Marc Pritzker is a senior attending physician and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery in the program in congestive heart failure, transplantation, mechanical assistance and cardiac regeneration at the University of Minnesota. He is currently the director of Cardiovascular Fellowship Training and Education in the Division of Cardiology. He is director of the program in pulmonary vascular disease. He received his training at the Amherst College and the University of Minnesota. He is formally trained in heart failure/transplantation, electrophysiology and interventional cardiology. He has extensive experience in clinical trials work with the pharmaceutical and device industries as well as research between basic science laboratories and the patient bedside. His research interests center on understanding how endothelial function modulates cardiovascular and pulmonary vascular disease and how the molecular biology and genomics of these diseases evolve over time and in response to therapy. |
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Richard Sutton |
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Professor Richard Sutton is a British cardiologist working in London with major interests in syncope and pacing. He has just been appointed at St Mary's Hospital where he will run the Syncope service. He was working at the Royal Brompton Hospital from 1993 to 2007. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Europace Journal from 1998 to 2006, and now a Founding Editor. Professor Sutton has been President of British Pacing and Electrophysiology Group from 1990 to 1995, Chairman of European Working Group on Cardiac Pacing from 2000 to 2002, and Board member of European Heart Rhythm Association from 2003 to 2006. He has published over 150 peer reviewed papers and over 300 other papers since 1968.
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Robert J. Bache |
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Dr. Robert J. Bache obtained his medical degree from Harvard University and was trained in clinical cardiology and cardiovascular research at Duke University. He is currently a professor and Director of Research in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Dr. Bache’s research has been concerned with the response of the myocardium to ischemia and to overload states produced by valvular heart disease or hypertension. His recent research has demonstrated that chronic systolic overload of the left ventricle results in molecular and metabolic alterations that limit myocardial energy production and may thereby contribute to contractile dysfunction. His research laboratory has been continuously funded by the NIH for more than 30 years.
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Takeshi Tsuchiya |
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Takeshi Tsuchiya was born in 1963 in Kumamoto, Japan. He received his MD degree from the University of Kumamoto. Following completion of his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, he moved to Fukuoka Tokushukai Hospital and then to Kumamoto University where he completed his fellowship training in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. Thereafter, Dr. Tsuchiya became an instructor in the Division of Cardiology at Kumamoto University and also got his PhD degree where he established a training and research program in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, and then moved to Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital as a senior electro physiologist. He won the best award of the Young Investigator’s Award of the Japanese College of Cardiology in 1999. He is a faculty member of both the Japanese Heart Rhythm Society and Japanese Cardiology Society, and a member of the Japanese Circulation Society and Japanese College of Cardiology. His principal research interests are directed toward the fields of clinical electrophysiology as it applies to radiofrequency catheter ablation and ICD implantations. |
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