Sanjiv M. Narayan MD, PhD

Dr. Narayan is Professor of Medicine, Co-Founder of the Arrhythmia Center and Director of the AF Program. He directs the Computational Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, dedicated to applying bioengneering to physiological data to personalize and improve arrhythmia therapy. Significant achievements include the first global reports of drivers for atrial and ventricular fibrillation in patients, as focal and rotational (rotor) elements, as now confirmed by optical mapping in human hearts, multiple academic and commercial groups, Our current thrust is to improve personalization using machine learning of physiological data.

Dr. Narayan has been funded continuously by NIH for 20 years, is a dedicated mentor (Funded by K24 HL103800; 2010-2020), and over 80% of his trainees remain in academia. Dr. Narayan has won teaching prizes for his mentorship, and trainees have won funding or awards every year since 2003. He has received honors for patient care and has been voted "Top Doctor".

Dr. Narayan was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, then his parents Prakash and Kamalini (both physicians) moved to Birmingham UK where he trained in medicine (MB, ChB) and software engineering (MSc) with a thesis on neural networks (1990). He gained membership (MRCP) then fellowship (FRCP) of the Royal College of Physicians of London. He moved to the renowned computational neuroimaging lab of Dr. Arthur Toga, PhD at UCLA where he used optical mapping to study somatosensory cortex in rodents, which led to his research doctorate (MD). He continued clinical training in Internal medicine at Harvard/Mount Auburn Hospital under Dr. Charles Hatem, and Cardiology/EP at Washington University under Drs Michael Cain and Bruce Lindsay. Dr. Narayan is board-certified in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

The Computational Arrhythmia Research Laboratory is grateful to our funding agencies. The lab has been supported continuously from 2001 by NIH (HL70529, HL83359, HL103800, HL122384, HL149134 and SBIR grants). Fellows are/have been funded by NIH, Fulbright Foundation, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, Heart Rhythm Society, and British Heart Foundation. To translate technology for wide clinical use, the lab has co-invented IP owned by the University of California Regents and Stanford University. IP for AF mapping (Focal Impulse and Rotor Mapping) was licensed to a start-up founded by Dr. Narayan (Topera, acquired 2014, commercially available).