Speaking at: HRC2026

Position: Professor of Medicine
Location: Ottawa, CA

Dr. Redfearn holds the rank of full Professor at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. His clinical appointment is within the Electrophysiology team, bringing a wealth of experience in diagnostics and complex ablation to this already well-established and exceptional group.

He pioneered new techniques for catheter ablation of atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia and continues a keen interest in advancing the field of interventional electrophysiology. He has developed and patented a mapping program for atrial fibrillation called TARLess which he hopes to test as a clinical tool for patient care.

Dr. Damian Redfearn was born and educated in the UK. He graduated from the University of Leicester Medical School and specialized 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, and Chair of Cardiology in 2023. He was promoted to the rank of full Professor in 2017. He has a track record of training graduate students and clinical trainees, having supervised 24 graduate students and trained over 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.