The Development of Cardiac Arrhythmia Ablation: A Conversation With Melvin A. Scheinman, MD.

Abstract

Dr Melvin A. Scheinman is Professor of Medicine and holds the Walter H. Shorenstein Endowed Chair in Cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He has received awards including the Paul Dudley White Award for Excellence in Teaching by the American Heart Association and the Distinguished Science Award of the American College of Cardiology. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and took his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University, where he graduated first in his class. Postgraduate medical education included the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, residency training at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and cardiology training at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.