Dr Gerstenfeld is the Chair of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Section and Melvin Scheinman Endowed Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He received a BSE in Biomedical and Electrical engineering at Duke University and a Master’s in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University before attending medical school at Northwestern. He trained in internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston; Cardiology at UMass and Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at Penn from 2001-2011. Dr Gerstenfeld’s areas of research include signal processing of cardiac arrhythmias, pre-clinical evaluation of new ablation technologies, pre-clinical evaluation of arrhythmia mechanisms, and clinical studies of arrhythmia diagnosis and treatment using catheter ablation. He has published > 200 original manuscripts, book chapters and review papers/editorials. He served 7 years on the ABIM Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Board writing committee. He currently serves on the editorial board of multiple cardiology and electrophysiology journals and is the Associate Editor for JACC:Clinical Electrophysiology. He lives in Marin County north of San Francisco with his wife and 2 children.