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Dr. José Jalife is a distinguished scientist working at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid Spain. He has made many seminal contributions to the field of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms. Dr. Jalife completed his M.D. at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1972. After clinical training in Spain, he moved to the United States to work as a postdoctoral fellow at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY, and the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory in Utica, NY. He joined the Department of Pharmacology, Upstate Medical University, as a member of the faculty in 1980 and became its Chairman in 1988. In January of 2008, he was recruited by the University of Michigan to his present position as Professor of Internal Medicine and the Cyrus and Jane Farrehi Professor of Cardiovascular Research and Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology. In 2014, he joined the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid as a Group Leader in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Laboratory. In June of 2019, Dr. Jalife became an Active Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan and received a University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center Directors’ Lifetime Achievement Award. He then moved to Madrid, Spain to expand his laboratory at CNIC. His work throughout his 50 year career has increased the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation and sudden cardiac death. He has published more than 400 original papers and review articles, and has edited/authored fifteen books, including the internationally acclaimed Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside, now in its eight edition. Dr. Jalife has served the US National Institutes of Health in many capacities, including past membership in Research Committee-A, the Cardiology Advisory Committee, the Cardiovascular Study Section, (CVA), and the ESTA Study Section of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. He has also been a member of multiple site visit committees and ad-hoc review committees of the NHLBI and the American Heart Association. Throughout his career Dr. Jalife has trained more than 100 scientists for research careers at nearly all educational levels, including pre-doctoral fellow for PhD degrees, medical student, post-doctoral trainees, medical residents and clinical fellows. In 2001 Dr. Jalife was awarded the Distinguished Scientist Award of the American College of Cardiology. Other accolades include the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Heart Rhythm Society, the Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases from McGill University, the President's Award for Research at SUNY Upstate Medical University, the Professor Pierre Rijlant Award from the Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique in Brussels, Belgium, the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, the Mirowski Award of Excellence in the field of Clinical Cardiology and Electrophysiology and the Arthur C. Guyton Distinguished Lecturer ward from the Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology. Dr. Jalife is an honorary member of the Mexican National Academy of Medicine, Fellow of the American Heart Association, Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society and member of the Association the American Association of Physicians; between 2010 and 2012 he served as President of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society. In 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree by the University of Valencia in Spain. In 2019, he was awarded the Venice Arrhythmia Conference “Lionheart Distinguished Scientist Award”. During the year 2020, Dr. Jalife wrote the Doctoral Thesis titled Inherited Arrhythmogenic Cardiac Diseases and the Kir2.1-NaV1.5 Channelosome, for which he was awarded a PhD in Medicine and Physiology by the University of Valencia.