Arthur A. M. Wilde MD, PhD

Arthur A.M. Wilde got his M.D. at the University of Amsterdam in 1983. After his PhD in 1988, he started his Fellowship training in Cardiology at the Academic Medical Centre and was registered as such in 1994. Afterwards, he specialized in clinical electrophysiology at the Academic Hospital Utrecht.

From the Netherlands Heart Association, he was awarded a grant as Clinical Established Investigator for five years. In 1999, he became head of the Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, and in 2003 head of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology (Academic Medical Centre). His major focus is on different aspects of inherited arrhythmia syndromes. In more recent years also genetic factors contributing to sudden cardiac death in the general population became a focus. In 2011 he was appointed as a member of the Dutch Academy of Science and in 2012 he received the Distinguished Investigator award of the Heart Rhythm Society.