Kalyanam Shivkumar

Dr. Shivkumar is an interventional physician scientist serving as the founding director of the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs (since its establishment in 2002) and as the inagural Director of the Center for Interventional Programs at UCLA since its establishment in 2011. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Medicine (Cardiology), Radiology and Bioengineering. He leads a team that provides state of the art interventional clinical care and has developed several innovative therapies for the non-pharmacological management of cardiac arrhythmias, other cardiac diseases, and interventions beyond the heart. He has a long track record of securing competitive extramural grants, publishing highly cited research papers, and has developed intellectual property at UCLA that has been commercialized. He has been elected as a member of the prestigious honor societies including-American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the Association of American Physicians (AAP), and Association of University Cardiologists (AUC). He was also elected as an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London (FRCP). He was named as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology in 2020. He served as the president of the International Society of Autonomic Neuroscience (2019-2022) and his scientific focus is to develop neuroscientific therapies for various organ diseases (the concept- ‘Internet of the Human Body’). He is the inaugural holder of the Lakshmi Aravamudan Chair at the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru, India). He is a Visiting Professor of Arrhythmia Medicine at Oxford University (UK) and a Physician Associate at the Merkin Institute for translational research at California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA, USA). He also founded the Amara-Yad Project, an open access knowledge portal for medical education.