Syncope and Transient Loss of Consciousness: Multidisciplinary ManagementISBN: 978-1-4051-7625-5
Paperback
208 pages
October 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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David G. Benditt, M.D. was born in Winnipeg, Canada. He received
a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and an MD degree from the
University of Manitoba. Following completion of postgraduate
training in Internal Medicine, he moved to Duke University Medical
Center in Durham, North Carolina where he completed a fellowship
training in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. Thereafter,
Dr Benditt joined the faculty of the Cardiovascular Division in the
Dept of Medicine at the University of Minnesota where he
established its training and research program in clinical cardiac
electrophysiology
Dr. Benditt is currently Professor of Medicine and Co-director
of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at the University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis. He has been an Established Investigator of the
American Heart Association, and President of both the American
Heart Association-Minnesota Affiliate and the North American
Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE). Dr Benditt has
recently been honored with the Pioneer in Pacing and
Electrophysiology Award of the Heart Rhythm Society. He is a Fellow
of both the American College of Cardiology, the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the Heart Rhythm Society
(HRS). He is a member of the European Heart Rhythm Association
(EHRA), and of the Council of Presidents of HRS. He is an associate
editor of the Journal of Interventional Electrophysiology (JICE),
and is a member of the Editorial Board of Europace. He has been a
member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American
College of Cardiology (JACC), The Journal of Cardiac
Electrophysiology, and the American Journal of Cardiology (AJC). He
has participated in many professional society Guidelines and
Consensus reports, most recently the Syncope guidelines of the
European Society of Cardiology. He is a medical consultant to the
US Federal Aviation administration on evaluation of individuals
with transient loss of consciousness, as well as to several medical
device manufacturers. His principal research interests are directed
toward the fields of autonomic control as it applies to syncope
(fainting), and implantable and external devices for cardiac rhythm
management.
Michele Brignole, MD FESC
From 1996, he is the chief of the Department of Cardiology of
Ospedali del Tigullio, Lavagna, Italy.
He is Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.
He was the chairman of the Task Force on Syncope of the European
Society of Cardiology.
He is currently the President of AIAC, Associazione Italiana di
Aritmologia e Cardiostimolazione.
The main research field has been diagnosis, pathophysiology and
therapy of syncope and rhythm disturbances and radiofrequency
catheter ablation of arrhythmias; he has published:
- 164 original papers currently quoted on Medline; he was first
name in 75 of them.
Antonio Raviele, MD, FESC
Graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery at
Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli of University of Napoli in
1971
Specialized in Cardiology at Florence University in 1974
Since 1995 Chief of the Cardiology Division and since 2000 Chief of
the Cardiovascular Department of the Umberto I Hospital of
Venice-Mestre , Italy
From 2000 to 2004 President of AIAC, Italian Association of
Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing; from 2004 to 2006 Past-President
of the same Association
Founding Father and current General Secretary of ECAS, European
Cardiac Arrhythmia Society
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and fellow of the
Heart Ryhtm Society
W. Wieling. MD, PhD
Scientific and professional experience
1984- present. Head research group physiology and pathophysiology
of the circulation of the Cardiovascular Research Institute of the
AMC. This research group is a collaboration of clinicians,
physiologists and engineers and its main interest is research on
the short-term regulation of the circulation using non-invasive
technologies.
1994- present associate professor Department of Internal Medicine,
director syncope unit Academic Medical Centre
1999- 2004 member of the Executive Committtee of the European
Society of
Cardiology Task Force on Syncope
Major areas of research interest
1. Autonomic nervous system control of the circulation in health
and disease
2. Physiological strategies to improve orthostatic
intolerance
3. Evaluation and treatment of syncope