Win-kuang Shen MD, FHRS

Dr. Shen is a staff Consultant and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN. Dr. Shen graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors from New York Medical College. He received his training in internal medicine, cardiology, and electrophysiology from Mayo Clinic and Duke University Medical Center. He was the recipient of the Young Investigator Award, NASPE (now Heart Rhythm Society, HRS) in 1991. He previously served as Chairperson for the Research Committee of the American Heart Association (AHA), Greater Midwest Affiliate, Chair of the Older Populations Committee of AHA, a member of the Scientific Committee of the HRS, AHA, and ACC, and a member of ACCF/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines.

He is currently a member of the ACCF Electrophysiology Committee, AHA Clinical Cardiology Leadership Committee, an Associate Editor of Circulation AEP, and a member of the Editorial Board of Heart Rhythm Journal. He was the Chair of the ACC/AHA/HRS 2017 Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Patients with Syncope. He has authored or co-authored more than two hundred original articles and editorials in peer review journals, thirty book chapters, and co-edited three books. His primary clinical responsibilities are caring for patients with cardiac arrhythmias and devices. His research is focused on autonomic regulation, syncope, atrial fibrillation, and sudden cardiac death. He is actively involved in graduate students, medical students, residents, and fellow education and educational and scientific programs nationally and internationally.