In this episode, we are highlighting some of the presentations from Heart Rhythm 2023, the Heart Rhythm Society’s annual meeting, which took place May 19-21, 2023. Included here are onsite interviews with Doug Darden, MD, Pamela Mason, MD, Marco Perez, MD, and Monica Pammer Austin, PAC.

For this episode of The EP Edit, EP Lab Digest’s Clinical Editor Bradley Knight, MD, talked with Jagmeet Singh, MD, about his new book, entitled Future Care: Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reinvention of Medicine. You can view the transcript for this episode at www.eplabdigest.com/podcast

In this episode, we are highlighting a discussion on challenges and updates in the management of arrhythmias during pregnancy and postpartum. Dr Mehta is a cardiac electrophysiologist and Dr Alpay is a maternal fetal medicine specialist; both are located at Corewell Health in Michigan. 

You can read the transcript for this episode here.

In this episode of The EP Edit, we share some highlights from the annual Western Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, which took place February 24-25, 2023 in Park City, Utah. Included here are some of our featured interviews with faculty from #WAFib2023. You can find transcripts for these interviews here.

In this episode of The EP Edit, we are highlighting a discussion on simulation training in cardiac electrophysiology (EP). Stephan P. Seslar, MD, PhD, is an attending pediatric cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Ashkan Ehdaie, MD, is an assistant professor of cardiology and associate director of the Clinical Cardiac EP Fellowship Training Program at Cedars-Sinai.

You can view the transcript for this episode here.

In this episode of The EP Edit, we are highlighting a discussion on artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, cardiology, and cardiac electrophysiology (EP). Lior Jankelson, MD, PhD, is the director of the Inherited Arrhythmia Program, principal investigator (PI) of the Computational Cardiology Research Lab, and associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health. Sumit Chopra is an associate professor in the Department of Radiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and director of machine learning research in the Department of Radiology at NYU Langone Health.

In this episode, we are highlighting a discussion on artificial intelligence (AI) and inherited arrhythmias. Lior Jankelson, MD, PhD, is the director of the inherited arrhythmia program, PI of the computational cardiology research lab, and associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health in New York. Zachi Attia, PhD, is the codirector of AI in cardiology and an assistant professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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In this episode of The EP Edit podcast, we are highlighting a discussion with researchers from Northwestern University about the concept of a bioresorbable pacemaker. Igor Efimov, PhD, is a professor of biomedical engineering and professor of medicine at Northwestern University. Anna Pfenniger, MD, PhD, is physician scientist in cardiac electrophysiology at Northwestern Medicine. John Rogers is a physical chemist and materials scientist, the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey professor of materials science and engineering, biomedical engineering, and neurological surgery at Northwestern University, and director of the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. The transcript of this episode is available here.

In this episode of The EP Edit podcast, we are highlighting the November 10th session of the Great Debates & Updates in Electrophysiology (GDUEP) conference, which will focus on management strategies for ventricular arrhythmias and heart failure. Brad Knight, MD, and Raul Weiss, MD, are Course Co-Directors of the GDUEP and will be presenting during the November 10th session. Dr Knight is the Clinical Editor of EP Lab Digest and Medical Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Dr Weiss is the Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Program at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.

For more information about the GDUEP conference, please visit https://www.ep.greatdebatesandupdates.com/register. This unique, debate-style conference is offered complimentary for clinicians, and all live sessions are also available on-demand through the end of 2022.

In part 2 of this episode with Drs Satish Raj and Artur Fedorowski, they discuss diagnosis and treatment options for this population of patients, current challenges and future directions in treatment. Dr Raj is the medical director of the Calgary Autonomic Investigation & Management Centre and professor of Cardiac Sciences at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute and the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine in Alberta, Canada. Dr Fedorowski is an associate professor and senior consultant in the department of cardiology at Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, Sweden.