Speaking at: HRC2026

Position: Professor of Medicine
Location: Minneapolis, US

David G. Benditt, M.D. is Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA. He earned both a B.Sc EE (1968) and an MD degree (1972) from the University of Manitoba, Canada and then completed cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.  He joined the University of Minnesota in 1978 and founded the Cardiac Arrhythmia and Syncope Center. Dr Benditt has been an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association and President of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS).  In 2007 he received the HRS Pioneer in Pacing and Electrophysiology Award.  His principal research is the evaluation of syncope and related cardiovascular autonomic disturbances.