Position: Professor of Cardiology
Location: Tours, FR

Laurent Fauchier, MD, PhD, is Professor of Cardiology and works in the Cardiology and Electrophysiology Department at the Trousseau University Hospital, Tours, France. Prof Fauchier has interest in several fields of cardiology: clinical electrophysiology, risk stratification in atrial fibrillation, stroke prevention, prevention of sudden death, cardiac pacing and defibrillation, radiofrequency ablation of arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy and heart failure, cardiovascular drugs evaluation. His basic science research interests have been focused on computerized electrocardiology, signal analysis in medicine and genetics. Prof. Fauchier is member of several international or national professional societies or working groups in the field of cardiac diseases. He is Fellow of the European society of Cardiology, President of the Working Group on Pacing and Arrhythmias of the French Society of Cardiology and he has worked on the writing of international task force documents and guidelines. He has published over 400 articles or communications in peer reviewed journals and is reviewer or on the editorial board of more than 20 leading medical journals.