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Team HRX
Team HRX
Team HRX
Meet the Innovators Who Make it Happen
Dr. Prashanthan Sanders
Executive 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).
Dr. Devi Nair
Producer
Dr. Devi G Nair, MD, FHRS is the Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Research at St. Bernards Medical Center & Arrhythmia Research Group in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Dr. Nair completed her medical training at the University of Kerala, India followed by Residency at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, St. Luke’s Roosevelt Campus. She completed her Cardiology and Electrophysiology Fellowships at Case Western Reserve University, Metro Health Campus. Her clinical practice and research focuses on heart rhythm disorders, cardiac ablation, pacemakers, defibrillators, and left atrial appendage occlusion therapy.
In addition to her clinical and research practices, she is well published and actively participates in multiple clinical trials as National PI, on Steering Committees and as local PI at Arrhythmia Research Group. Dr. Nair has served as the Chair and Vice-Chair for the HRS Membership Subcommittee in the past. She is the Governor of the Arkansas chapter of the ACC. She is the Editor in Chief for the Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm Management and the Course Director for Rhythm Interventions Online Congress.
2027 Production Team
Dr. Tina Baykaner
Stanford University
Dr. Jacqueline Joza
McGill University Health Centre
Dr. Bradley Knight
Northwestern Medicine
Dr. Dominik Linz
Maastricht UMC+
Dr. Mike Lloyd
Emory University Hospital
Dr. Melissa Middeldorp
Adelaide University
Dr. Pasquale Santangeli
Cleveland Clinic
Deepthy Varghese
Emory University Hospital