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 obtained his undergraduate degree in biomedical and electrical engineering from Duke University and a Masters’ degree in biomedical engineering and MD from Northwestern University. Dr Gerstenfeld trained in cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at Penn from 2001-2011, and then moved to UCSF.
Dr Gerstenfeld is also director of the translational preclinical electrophysiology laboratory at UCSF where his NIH funded 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. He has published > 250 original manuscripts, book chapters and review papers/editorials. He served 7 years on the ABIM Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Board writing committee and currently serves as the Executive Editor for JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.