Jeremy N. Ruskin (born October 19, 1945) is an American cardiologist, medical researcher, and teacher specializing in cardiac electrophysiology, a subspecialty of cardiology. He is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Founder and Director Emeritus of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service and Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory, Founder and Director Emeritus of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Training Program, and inaugural incumbent of the Omran Alomran Endowed Chair in Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Founder and Director of the International (Boston) Atrial Fibrillation Symposium.
Contents Education Career Awards Selected publications
Education
Ruskin received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1967. He received his medical degree cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1971. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston from 1971 to 1973.
From 1973 to 1975, Ruskin completed his training in clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the Staten Island Public Health Service Hospital / U.S. Marine Hospital in Staten Island, New York, under the mentorship of Dr. Anthony Damato. He then completed a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1975 to 1978. He joined the MGH and Harvard faculty in 1978.
Career
Founding of the MGH Cardiac Arrhythmia Service
In 1978, Ruskin founded the MGH Cardiac Arrhythmia Service and Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory, the first subspecialty service dedicated to the care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias in New England. In the same year, he also founded the MGH Fellowship Training Program in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, described as the first such subspecialty training program on cardiac arrhythmias in New England.
Research
Ruskin's research has addressed the role of electrophysiologic testing in survivors of cardiac arrest; the proarrhythmic effects of cardiac and noncardiac drugs; the role of electrophysiologic testing in patients with unexplained syncope; novel approaches to antiarrhythmic drug therapy; nonpharmacological therapies for ventricular arrhythmias and atrial fibrillation; experimental animal models of post-infarction ventricular tachycardia; the use of novel bioadhesives for myocardial preservation in experimental myocardial infarction; and the cardiovascular effects of psychedelics.
He is an author of more than 500 original scientific publications, chapters, reviews, guidelines, and monographs.
FDA advisory service
Ruskin served as a member of the United States FDA Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee for five years.
International Atrial Fibrillation Symposium
In 1995, Ruskin founded the Annual International Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, which he has directed since its inception.
Professional memberships
Ruskin is a member of the Heart Rhythm Society and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology.
Awards
Year Award 1981–1986 American Heart Association Established Investigator Award 1997 Michel Mirowski Award for Excellence in Clinical Cardiology and Electrophysiology 2002 Heart Rhythm Society Pioneer in Pacing and Electrophysiology Award 2015 KCHRS Pioneer in Electrophysiology Award 2016 Omran Alomran Endowed Chair in Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (inaugural incumbent) 2016 Jeremy Ruskin, MD and Dan Starks Endowed Chair in Cardiology established at Massachusetts General Hospital 2018 William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award, Harvard Medical School 2022 Heart Rhythm Society Distinguished Teacher Award 2024 Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Tufts University
Selected publications
References
External links
MGH physician profile — Jeremy N. Ruskin Full publication list on PubMed International (Boston) Atrial Fibrillation Symposium