Key Opinion Leaders

Key Opinion Leaders

Key Opinion Leaders

Be in the Room with the Leaders Driving Electrophysiology and Cardiovascular Innovation

At HRX Live 2026, more than 100 globally recognized leaders in electrophysiology, digital health, medical devices, AI in cardiology, and cardiovascular research will gather to shape the future of heart rhythm care. Through cross-disciplinary, in-person conversations, attendees engage directly with the innovators advancing remote monitoring, ablation technologies, device therapy, and scalable cardiovascular care delivery.

Meet the HRX Live 2026 KOLs

Dominic Abrams

Co-Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Genetics

Boston Children’s Hospital

Sana Al-Khatib

Professor of Medicine at Duke University | Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Duke University

Jason Andrade

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Director of Electrophysiology

Vancouver General Hospital

Zachi Attia

Director of AI

Mayo Clinic

Tina Baykaner

Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine | Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Electrophysiology | Stanford University

Julia Berzhanskaya

Program Director for trans-NIH REACH 2.0 and Innovator Support Lead

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Innovation& Commercialization Office

Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green

Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Professor of Medicine

UC San Diego Health System

Chad Bonhomme

President & Electrophysiologist

Westfield Physician Holdings, LLC

Patrick Boyle

Associate Professor of Bioengineering

University of Washington

T. Jared Bunch

Associate Chief of Cardiology

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at University of Utah Hospital

Kristen Bova Campbell

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist and Senior Research Associate in Electrophysiology

Duke University Medical Center

Mina K. Chung

Staff Cardiologist & Professor of Medicine in the Section of Pacing and Electrophysiology

Cleveland Clinic

Eugenio Cingolani

Director of the Cardiogenetics & Preclinical Research programs

Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute

Kenneth Civello

Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer | Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Suture Health Inc. | Our Lady of the Lake

Tom De Potter

Electrophysiologist

Cardiovascular Center Aalst

Brynn Dechert-Crooks

Pediatric Electrophysiology Nurse Practitioner

University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center

Isabel Deisenhofer

Head, Department of Electrophysiology

German Heart Center Munich Department of Electrophysiology

Thomas Deneke

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Clinic for Arrhythmology, University Heart Center Nuremberg, Paracelsus Medical University

Mehak Dhande

Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Physician Scientist

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Brett Douglas

Founder & Managing Partner

Waterston Capital

David Duncker

Head of Hannover Heart Rhythm Center

Hannover Medical School

Christopher Ellis

Director LAA (Left Atrial Appendage) Program | Director AF Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Sabine Ernst

Imperial College London

Derek Exner

Chief Medical Officer | Professor

HelpWear Inc. | Cumming School of Medicine at University of Calgary

Martha G. Ferrara

Family Nurse Practitioner | Assistant Director EP Services

White Plains Hospital-Montefiore Health Systems

Aileen Ferrick

Assistant Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology Research | Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

White Plains Hospital

Edward Gerstenfeld

Professor of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

Hamid Ghanbari

Chair of Innovation, Clinical Associate Professor

University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center

Rakesh Gopinathannair

Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories

Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute

Melanie Gunawardene

Senior Cardiac Electrophysiologist

CCB Frankfurt

Janet K. Han

Associate Professor of Medicine | Cardiac Electrophysiology

UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System / UCLA | Digital Health & Virtual Care

Jeroen Hendriks

Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing

Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, University of Adelaide

Adrian Hernandez

Executive Director | Vice Dean

Duke Clinical Research Institute | Duke University School of Medicine

Mellanie True Hills

Founder & CEO

American Foundation for Women’s Health & StopAfib.org

Gerhard Hindricks

Medical Director

Charite University Hospital, Berlin

Jason Jacobson

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

New York Medical College-Westchester Medical Center

Rodolphe Katra

Global Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer and a Technical Fellow

Consilium BioMedical

Josef Kautzner

Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Director of the Heart Centre and Head of Department of Cardiology

IKEM Prague

Yaariv Khaykin

Chief Medical Information Officer

Myant Health

Bradley Knight

Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology | Director of the Heart Rhythm Center

Northwestern Medicine | Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute (BCVI)

Jacob Koruth

Associate Professor

Mount Sinai Medical Center

Robert Kowal

Vice President and General Manager, Cardiac Pacing Therapies | Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Medtronic

Anne Kroman

Associate Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology | Director of the Lead Management Program, the Cardiac Device Clinic, and MUSC Heart Station

Medical University of South Carolina

Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy

Executive Medical Director of the Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute

HCA Midwest in Overland Park, Kansas

Joshua Lampert

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Medical Director of Machine Learning

Mount Sinai Heart in The Mount Sinai Hospital

Giovanni Leo

Partner

Lake Geneva Ventures Fund at Efficient Frontier Investing

Dominik Linz

Professor | EP Consultant

Maastricht University Medical Center

Christopher Liu

Director of EP Services

Weill Cornell Medicine System | New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Michael Lloyd

Director of EP Laboratories | Professor of Medicine | Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Emory University

Trudie Lobban

Founder & CEO

Arrhythmia Alliance | AF Association | STARS

Gregory Marcus

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Professor of Medicine | Associate Chief of Cardiology for Research

Univ of California, San Francisco | JAMA

Nassir Marrouche

Director of Heart and Vascular Institute

Tulane University School of Medicine

William McIntyre

Cardiologist | Assistant Professor

St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton

David McManus

Richard M. Haidack Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | UMassMemorial Health

Nishaki Mehta

Associate Professor of Medicine

William Beaumont Oakland University School of Medicine

George Stuart Mendenhall

Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Researcher | Chief Medical Officer

Scripps Memorial Hospital | Everbeat

Melissa Middeldorp

Postdoctoral Researcher

University Medical Center Groningen

Suneet Mittal

Chair, Cardiovascular Service Line

Valley Health System

Oliver Monfredi

Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of the Complex Lead Management and Extraction Center of Excellence

University of Virginia

Jessica Mullenix

Cardiac Electrophysiology Nurse Practitioner

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Cardiology Office

Devi Nair

Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Research

St. Bernards Medical Center & Arrhythmia Research Group

Sanjiv Narayan

Professor of Medicine | Director of the NIH T32 Computational Medicine Training Program (CHIP) | Co-Director of the Arrhythmia Center

Stanford University

Ken Nelson

Partner | Board Chairman & Investor | Investor & Mentor

Medtech Advantage Fund | CardiaCare | HeartBeam, BloomLife, & HeartX

Peter Noseworthy

Professor of Medicine, Chair of the Division of Heart Rhythm Services, and Medical Director of Business Development

Mayo Clinic

Jose Osorio

Medical Director of Electrophysiology – HCA Florida Miami | Founder and CMO | Founder and President

HCA Florida Miami | 3PH Alliance | Heart Rhythm Clinical Research Solutions

Deepak Padmanabhan

Assistant Professor

Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research

Rod Passman

Jules Reingold Professor of Electrophysiology & Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Kristen Patton

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Professor of Medicine

University of Washington

Jeanne Poole

Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Director | Professor of Cardiology and Medicine

University of Washington Medical Center and School of Medicine

Krishna Pundi

Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Health Services and Outcomes Researcher, Innovator

Palo Alto VA Hospital

Vivek Y. Reddy

Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services

Mount Sinai Health System

Alicia Chong Rodriguez

Founder & CEO

Bloomer Tech

Lisa Roelle

Pediatric Electrophysiology Physician Assistant

Washington University in St. Louis & St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Heather Ross

Assistant Professor | Nurse Practitioner

Arizona State University

Andrea Russo

Academic Chief, Division of Cardiology | Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Services | Director, CCEP Fellowship

Cooper University Hospital

Prashanthan Sanders

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology

University of Adelaide

Andrea Sarkozy

Professor of Cardiology & Free University of Brussels Director

Ventricular Arrhythmia & Sudden Death Unit, UZ Brussel

William Sauer

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Samuel F. Sears

Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Cardiovascular Sciences | Division Chief of Innovation and Research | Associate Director of the ECU Cardiology Fellowship

East Carolina Heart Institute

Tracey Shannon

Program Coordinator, Electrophysiology

Westchester Medical Center

Kalyanam Shivkumar

Professor & Director, Center for Interventional Programs

UCLA Health System, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs

Usman Siddiqui

Electrophysiologist

Florida Cardiology

Jennifer Silva

Co-Founder & CMO | Associate Professor & Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology

SentiAR, Inc. | Washington University in St. Louis

Jagmeet Singh

Professor of Medicine | Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Founding Director of the Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program

Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center

Konstantinos Siontis

Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic | Director of the Cardiac Radioablation

Mayo Clinic

David Slotwiner

Chief of the Division of Cardiology

New York Presbyterian Queens

Yekaterina Spivak

Pediatric Electrophysiology Physician Assistant | IBCLC & Co-founder

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | Welcome Baby 247

Stavros Stavrakis

Clinical Electrophysiologist | Associate Professor

Benjamin Steinberg

Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology

Denver Health Medical Center

Williams Stevenson

Professor of Medicine

Vanderbilt University Medical School

Emma Svennberg

Assistant professor | Electrophysiologist

Karolinska University Hospital

Kamala Tamirisa

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Cardiology | Director of Electrophysiology Research

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Harikrishna Tandri

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Kevin Thomas

Vice Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion | Professor of Medicine, Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Health Disparities Researcher

Duke University Health System

Natalia Trayanova

Professor | Director for AI Research

Johns Hopkins University

John Triedman

Professor of Pediatrics | Former Chief of Pediatric EP

Harvard Medical School | Boston Children’s Hospital

Liat Tsoref

Senior Director of Digital, AI and Customer Collaboration

Biosense Webster

Amy Tucker

Nurse Manager of the Cardiac Device Clinic

Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute (SHVI)

Mintu Turakhia

Chief Medical and Scientific Officer + EVP, Product Management and Innovation | Professor of Medicine and Cardiac Electrophysiologist

iRhythm Technologies, Inc. | Stanford University

Meghan Turchioe

Assistant Professor

Columbia University

Wendy Tzou

Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Professor of Medicine | Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Miguel Valderrabano

Director, Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology

The Methodist Hospital

Deepthy Varghese

Electrophysiology Nurse Practitioner

Emory University Hospital

Niraj Varma

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Professor of Medicine

Cleveland Clinic

Paul Varosy

VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System | University of Colorado School of Medicine | Veterans Health Administration Cardiology

Atul Verma

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

McGill University Health Centre

Nicholas Von Bergen

Professor of Pediatrics in Pediatric Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Co-Founder

University of Wisconsin-Madison | Atrility Medical, LLC

Elaine Wan

Esther Aboodi Associate Professor of Medicine in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology | Attending Physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Columbia University Medical Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons | New York-Presbyterian Hospital

J. Peter Weiss

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Banner University of Arizona Medical Center Phoenix (BUMCP)

Hee Tae Yu

Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Associate Professor of Medicine

Yonsei University College of Medicine

Junaid Zaman

Director of Electrophysiology Research & Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California

Paul Zei

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Emily Zeitler

Associate Professor of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute

Steven Zweibel

Medical Director of Innovation

Hartford HealthCare Heart & Vascular Institute

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