Michael C. Giudici, MD, FHRS has been published more than 200 times!

How long have you been a member of the Heart Rhythm Society?

This month (12/09) is my 20th anniversary.

My Society is...

Well-respected, international, and focused. Heart Rhythm Society meetings are the “Gold Standard” for our field. No other meeting carries the academic weight of the Society to the EP community. Physicians come from all over the world to take part in our sessions and many belong to this North American organization even though they work in Asia or Europe because they see the value in membership to their own practices. We are focused in that we deal with cardiac electrophysiology. We do not try to cover every subject in medicine or even cardiology. That makes our meetings and committee work more valuable and productive to the members.

How has membership in the Society been of value to you and your practice?

Membership has been valuable in many ways. The Annual Scientific Sessions are excellent and the presentations have had a great impact on my practice. The opportunities to meet, and network with other physicians in my field have been invaluable. Research studies, committee work, and sitting on panels have allowed me to rub shoulders with and pick the brains of the leaders in my field. My patients directly benefit from that knowledge, which won’t be found in a journal or text.

Interaction with the international EP community has been another big plus to Society membership. Those scientific encounters lead to friendships which have enriched my life considerably. Even “nuts and bolts” things like the annual coding guides are a great help to my office staff and help make our lives a little easier.

Why did you choose the field of electrophysiology?

I was always interested in cardiology and EP was an emerging discipline in the 1980’s when I trained in Philadelphia. Drs. Josephson, Marchlinski, Buxton, and many more were doing exciting, cutting-edge research into ventricular tachycardia and my mentors, Arnold Greenspon, MD, and Greg Flaker, MD, FHRS were encouraging of my research interests. It was a great choice as so many new ways to benefit patients have come about in our field in the last 20 years. I watched catheter ablation, alternative-site pacing, CRT, and pulmonary vein isolation go from the drawing board to standard-of-care!

Please list a few of your most recent accomplishments.

I’ve been inducted into the Quad-Cities Business Hall of Fame, Fellowship in the Heart Rhythm Society, received the Lawrence Enerson Award from the National Arbor Day Foundation for re-foresting Davenport, Iowa, as well as been honored as Iowa Forestry Volunteer of the Year, Best Doctors in America, and River Action “Eddy” Award for conservation, and published my 200th academic paper.

More About Michael C. Giudici, MD, FHRS

I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, where I graduated from Assumption High School (Go Knights!). I graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where Brian Olshansky, MD, FHRS, and I played in rival rock bands. After graduate school at the University of South Dakota, I received my MD at the University of Iowa. Three years as a primary care physician in the Air Force led me to the East Coast, where I completed my Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. My EP and Interventional fellowships were done at the University of Missouri and then I returned to Davenport in 1989 to start the EP program at Genesis Medical Center. My wife Paula, is a dermatologist and I have two sons — Greg at Western Colorado College and Mike working in finance for Scottrade in St. Louis.

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