Dr. Robert Myerburg is a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He attended Johns Hopkins University, followed by medical school at the University of Maryland. His postgraduate education included a medical internship at the University of Maryland Hospital, residency in internal medicine at Tulane University, training in cardiovascular medicine at Emory University and a research fellowship at Columbia University. Myerburg has authored or co-authored more than 530 refereed articles published in scientific journals, over 145 chapters published in books or monographs and over 350 scientific abstracts presented at major meetings. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association, the Michel Mirowski Award for Cardiac Electrophysiology from Johns Hopkins, the Research Achievement Award of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award from UM and an honorary doctorate from Oulu University in Finland.