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Team HRX
Team HRX
Team HRX
Meet the Innovators Who Make it Happen
Dr. Jonathan P. Piccini
Executive Producer
Jonathan P. Piccini is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist and Professor of Medicine and Population Health at Duke University Hospital and the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He is the Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology section at the Duke Heart Center. His focus is on the care of patients with atrial fibrillation and complex arrhythmias, with particular emphasis on catheter ablation, pacing, and lead extraction.
His research interests include the development and evaluation of innovative cardiovascular interventions for the treatment of heart rhythm disorders. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Heart Rhythm Society, is an Associate Editor at JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Piccini has more than 600 publications in the field of heart rhythm medicine and has been the recipient of several teaching and mentorship awards.
Dr. Prashanthan Sanders
Producer
Dr. Sanders is a clinical academic at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital. He is the Director of the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of Adelaide and the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
He established and leads a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and researchers. His research program, founded on an understanding of the substrate for AF, has continued with an evaluation of techniques to treat, reverse and prevent the substrate for AF. The work from his group has led to a paradigm change in the approach to the management of AF with the recognition of the importance of managing risk factors and comorbidities in individuals with AF.
Dr Sanders received the Heart Rhythm Society’s Distinguished Scientist Award in May 2024. He has published over 780 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has been recognized by Clarivate as being in the top 1% of cited researchers in clinical medicine (2023-current).
2026 Production Team
Dr. Tina Baykaner
Stanford University
Brynn Dechert-Crooks
University of Michigan
Congenital Heart Center
Dr. Mehak Dhande
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Dr. David Duncker
Hannover Heart Rhythm Center at Hannover Medical School
Jeroen Hendriks
Maastricht UMC+
Dr. Jason Jacobson
New York Medical College-Westchester Medical Center
Dr. Rob Kowal
Medtronic
Dr. Dominik Linz
Maastricht UMC+
Dr. Mike Lloyd
Emory University Hospital
Dr. Oliver Manfredi
University of Virginia
Dr. Suneet Mittal
Valley Health System
Dr. Devi Nair
St. Bernard’s Medical Center & Arrhythmia Research Group
Dr. Jennifer Silva
Washington University School of Medicine/St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Dr. Benjamin Steinberg
Denver Health Medical Center and University of Colorado
Dr. Emma Svennberg
Karolinska Institutet
Dr. Kamala Tamirisa
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia
Dr. Natalia Trayanova
Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Mintu Turakhia
iRhythm Technologies / Stanford University