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CBaC Fellow SPotlight

CBAC: What are your future goals or what do you expect to accomplish in the next few years?

As the fellowship director for the electrophysiology program, I am very committed to ensuring that Washington
University remains in the top tier of training programs in this country. In the next few years, I plan to continue to find
improved methods of training and preparing fellows for procedures that are becoming ever more complex, including
expanded simulation training [additional work with computers and models before working on patients]. I also feel very
strongly that as clinicians, we should continue to work with our basic research colleagues to further our understanding
of the field, and I hope more collaborations will be in the future.

CBAC: As a clinician, and a member of the CBAC, how do you feel about participating in this type of
interdiciplinary research?

One of the advantages of being part of the CBAC is the collaboration aspect of it in terms of integrating clinicians with
scientists, and the exchange of ideas. Clinicians know what matters to the patients, what types of problems they have
and which patient(s) would be a good fit for a particular study and scientists provide information on what they find out
from their experimental work.

Some of those collaborations have resulted in the following publications with fellow CBAC members and graduate
students:

Continuous ECGI Mapping of Spontaneous VT initiation, continuation, and termination with Antitachycardia
Pacing. Zhang J, Desouza KA, Cuculich PS, Cooper DH, Chen J, Rudy Y. Heart Rhythm 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.
hrthm.2012.01.001.

Wang Y, Cuculich PS, Zhang J, Desouza KA, Vijayakumar R, Chen J, Faddis MN, Lindsay BD, Smith TW, Rudy Y.
Noninvasive electroanatomic mapping of human ventricular arrhythmias with electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI). Sci-
ence Translational Medicine 2011;98:1-10.

CBAC: …. and attending CBAC seminars?

I think participating in the research and attending seminars at CBAC are invaluable. I continue to try my very best in
making it a priority, and certainly encourage all of our fellows to participate as well.

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