speaker
Jeffrey E. Safitz
MD, PhD
Medicine
Pathology
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Chief, Professor
Dr. Saffitz is a leading basic and translational investigator in the area of sudden cardiac death, arrhythmia mechanisms in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies, and cardiac myocyte electrical communication. His several decades of independent, federally funded research have yielded over 260 original contributions to the literature. His research has elucidated molecular and structural determinants of normal and abnormal intercellular coupling and defined the role of altered expression of connexins (gap junction channel proteins) and remodeling of gap junctions in the pathogenesis of lethal ventricular arrhythmias.