Cardiac EP Lab Director, Professor of Medicine
Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute
University of Missouri-Columbia
Overland Park, Kansas
Dr. Rakesh Gopinathannair, MD, MA, FAHA, FHRS, is currently Cardiac EP Lab Director at the Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia . Dr. Gopinathannair is immediate past Chair of AHA Electrocardiography and Arrhythmias Committee and HRS Communications Committee. He is also a member of the AHA Clinical Cardiology Council Leadership Committee, Strategic Planning Committee, AHA Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Science Advisory Group, and served as EP Program Chair for Committee for Scientific Sessions Programming (CSSP) for AHA 2021. He is also a member of the HRS program committee..
Following graduation from University of Kerala, India, he completed a Master of Arts in Exercise Physiology from the University of Maryland, Internal Medicine Residency from the Hahnemann University Hospital/Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, and Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowships from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
He serves as Associate Editor for Heart Rhythm Case Reports and as section Editor for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. Dr. Gopinathannair has served as a writing group member and peer-reviewer for AHA/ACC/HRS and AHRQ guidelines and writing committee Chair for AHA Scientific Statements. He has published >350 peer-reviewed articles and abstract presentations, along with several book chapters, and have been an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings. His research interests mainly focus on Arrhythmia Induced Cardiomyopathies, Atrial fibrillation and Heart Failure, COVID-19 and cardiac arrhythmias, and implantable device therapy and complex arrhythmias in patients with advanced heart failure and Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD).
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Saturday, February 25, 2023
9:20 AM – 9:45 AM