Speaking at: HRC2025

Position: Professor of Cardiology
Location: Ottawa, CA

Dr. Damian Redfearn was born and educated in the UK. He graduated from the University of Leicester Medical School and specialised in Cardiology with subspecialty training in cardiac electrophysiology at the Birmingham University Teaching Hospitals. He moved to Canada in 2004 to pursue research and clinical training within the field of cardiac electrophysiology. He was recruited to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 2006 and was appointed Director of the Heart Rhythm Service in 2007, Chair of Cardiology in 2023. He was recruited to the Ottawa Heart Institute in 2025. Dr Redfearn is a clinician scientist cross appointed with the School of Computing at Queen’s University. He was promoted to the rank of full Professor in 2017, has supervised 24 graduate students and trained many 17 EP fellows. He holds several peer reviewed research grants to investigate the mechanisms of atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmia through advanced signal processing. He has authored over 300 peer reviewed publications and holds 3 US patents on arrhythmia based algorithms.