Michael J. Ackerman MD, PhD

Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD, is the Windland Smith Rice Cardiovascular Genomics Research Professor and Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pharmacology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.  Dr. Ackerman received his MD and PhD from the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and residency and fellowship training in Pediatric and Pediatric Cardiology in the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education.

Currently, he serves as director of Mayo Clinic’s Windland Smith Rice Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic and the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Ackerman has also served as the president of the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation since 2006.  In 2015, he received Mayo Clinic’s Distinguished Clinician Award. In 2018, he received the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Pediatric Investigator Award and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Heart Rhythm Society. In 2021, he was inducted into the prestigious Association of American Physicians.