The Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will host its sixth annual symposium, titled “Focus on Cardiovascular Electrophysiology,” Sept. 14 and 15 at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Mountain Brook.
The keynote speakers at the symposium will be Raymond E. Ideker, M.D., and Alfred L. George Jr., M.D.
Ideker joined UAB in 1994. He is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, former holder of the Jeanne V. Marks Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Research and former director of the Cardiac Rhythm Management Laboratory.
George serves as chair of the Department of Pharmacology and director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics at Northwestern University.
The Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center’s mission is to help position UAB as a premier institution for cardiovascular research and expand growth in newer high-impact areas of science. For more information, visit the official Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center website.
The symposium is supported in part by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (R13HL138967).