Jeremy N. Ruskin, M.D., is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a board-certified internist with subspecialty board certification in cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. Dr. Ruskin is the founder and Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts). Dr. Ruskin’s major research interests include clinical cardiac electrophysiology, mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death, new antiarrhythmic drugs, cardiac and noncardiac drug-induced arrhythmias, catheter based therapies for ventricular arrhythmias, and mechanisms and new pharmacologic and image guided catheter ablation therapies for atrial fibrillation.
In addition to clinical and academic duties, Dr. Ruskin brings his expertise to serving the professional and patient communities as an advisor and consultant on drug development, healthcare initiatives, medical education, and professional development. Among his advisory roles, Dr. Ruskin has served as reviewer for grant applications for the United States Veterans Administration and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institute of Health, and as a consultant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment.
In 1978, Dr. Ruskin founded the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service and Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the first service dedicated to the care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias in New England. Dr. Ruskin’s early research was supported by an Established Investigator Award from American Heart Association from 1981-86. Since 1978, Dr. Ruskin has been directly responsible for the training of more than 90 fellows in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, many of whom are now in leadership positions in academic medicine in the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Ruskin’s commitment to research and teaching is also evidenced by his participation in hundreds of national and international symposia and invited lectures. He is an author of more than 300 original scientific publications, chapters, reviews, and monographs. Dr. Ruskin currently serves as a reviewer of scientific publications for 12 professional journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and Circulation. In recognition of his scientific contributions, Dr. Ruskin received the Michel Mirowski Award for Excellence in Clinical Cardiology and Electrophysiology in 1997. In 2002, he received the Pioneer in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Award from the North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of cardiac arrhythmias and clinical cardiac electrophysiology.
Dr. Ruskin received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University where he graduated summa cum laude and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School where he graduated cum laude. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and his fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
