Victor Parsonnet MD, FHRS, CCDS

Victor Parsonnet, MD, Medical Director of the Pacemaker and Defibrillator Evaluation Center and Director of Surgical Research at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, is an accomplished surgeon and researcher who has demonstrated a lifetime of commitment to cardiovascular surgery and medicine.
Dr. Parsonnet gained international recognition for his work with pacemakers and pioneered many cardiovascular procedures in New Jersey, such as the first aortocoronary-bypass procedures and the first kidney and heart transplantations. Among his scientific contributions to cardiac pacing in particular, he is known for implanting the first permanent pacemakers in New Jersey, the first permanent transvenous pacemakers (world wide), and the first nuclear pacemaker of a U.S. manufacturer. He is the co-author of the widely used pacemaker code for identification of pacemaker modes, and participated in the development of the first multi-programmable pacemakers.
Dr. Parsonnet is a co-founder of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology and has published more than 600 articles in medical literature. He is past-president of the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Chapters of the American College of Cardiology, and the American College of Surgery.