Gordon Tomaselli, M.D.

Dr. Tomaselli is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology & Molecular Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is Chief of the Division of Cardiology. In this role he attends the clinical electrophysiology laboratory, teaches physiology, pathophysiology, and molecular medicine to first and second year medical students, and has an active basic laboratory research program. Dr. Tomaselli is known for his work on cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, and his laboratory interests include the structure and function of ion channel genes and proteins, and molecular genetic changes in excitability molecules which occur in the human heart failure.

Dr. Tomaselli is leading the clinical research efforts within the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center as Co-Director. In addition to this role, he serves as the principal investigator on a patient-based clinical study PROSE-ICD, examining expression profiling and proteomic biomarkers of Sudden Cardiac Death.

He is board certified in cardiovascular diseases, and clinical electrophysiology and pacing. He is a Past President of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, the Chairman of the Committee on Scientific Sessions Programming (CSSP) of the American Heart Association and a member of the leadership Committee for the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences of the American Heart Association. He is a Board Member of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and prior Basic Science Chair of the Program committee for HRS Scientific Sessions. He serves on the editorial board of Circulation, Journal of Cardiac Electrophysiology and is Deputy Editor of Circulation Research and is a former permanent member and now on reviewer reserve of the Electrical Signaling, Ion Transport and Arrhythmias [ESTA] Institutional Review Group at the National Institutes of Health, The National Heart Lung & Blood Institute.