Clinical Advisors – Atrial Fibrillation

Professor A John Camm, QHP, BSc, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FESC, FACC, FAHA, FCGC, CStJ is Professor of Clinical Cardiology, St. George's Hospital Medical School. His main interests are electrocardiography and cardiac arrhythmias, and acquired (drug-induced) long QT syndrome. Professor Camm has written more than 900 peer reviewed publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, the Council of Geriatric Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He is also Past-President of the British Cardiac Society and the British Pacing and Electrophysiology Group, Past-Trustee of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, Past-Trustee and Council Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Past-Chairman of the European Working Group of Cardiac Arrhythmias. Currently Professor Camm is Chairman of the Joint Cardiology Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and British Cardiac Society. He is also President of the Arrhythmia Alliance.

Professor Gerald V Naccarelli, MD is the Bernard Trabin Chair in Cardiology, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cardiology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine/Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He has chaired or been a member of numerous committees for the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology/Heart Rhythm Society. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology and a Past-President of the Heart Rhythm Society and the Association of the Professors of Cardiology. Until recently he was a member of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Diseases. He is a recipient of the American Heart Association Paul Dudley White Award and the Nycomed Amersham Award for Leadership from the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators. He has been an investigator in several dozen industry and NIH Multicenter trials. He is the author or co-author of over 400 papers, chapters, articles and abstracts and currently serves on the editorial boards of twelve journals in cardiology.

Professor Stanley Nattel, MD is the Paul David Professor of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology at the Montreal Heart Institute where he heads one of the foremost groups in the world working on atrial fibrillation. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology both in the US and Canada. Professor Nattel is a Fellow of the American Society of Cardiology and of the Royal College of Physicians. He is the recipient of many awards and has published more than 280 research articles in the field.

Professor James A Reiffel, MD is the Professor of Clinical Medicine Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons New York, NY, attending Physician New York-Presbyterian Hospital New York, NY, and Director, Electrocardiography Laboratory Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY. He received his BA from Duke University, Durham, NC and MD from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY. He has been on numerous committees and hold society memberships for the American College of Physicians, New York Heart Association, New York Heart Association Council on Professional Education, American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, New York Cardiological Society, and American Federation for Clinical Research amongst other. He is the author or co-author of over 130 papers, 120 chapters/review articles and 200 abstracts.

Professor Dr Johannes Brachmann, MD is currently Chief of Cardiology, II Med. Hospital Klinikum Coburg, Teaching Hospital of the University of Würzburg. He graduated from the Medical School at the University of Heidelberg. He is a member of the scientific committees of the German Cardiac Society, European Society of Cardiology, Nucleus of the Working Group “Electrophysiology” of the German Cardiac Society. He has more 200 publications and abstracts. Professor Brachmann has been the principle investigator of more than 20 clinical studies mostly in the area of cardiac electrophysiology and interventional cardiology.

Dr Andrew A Grace, MB, BS, FRCP, FACC, FESC, FAHA is Consultant Cardiologist at Papworth Hospital. In addition, he holds an academic post in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. Dr Grace has long-study interests in cardiac ion channels and has completed pioneering work using genetic modification to characterise their function in vivo. Dr Grace is a Senior Fellow of the British Heart Foundation.