Paul A. Iaizzo is Professor in the Departments of Surgery, Integrative Biology & Physiology, and the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, where he also holds graduate faculty appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Mechanical Engineering. He is Director of the Malignant Hyperthermia Diagnostic Center and the Medtronic Professor of Visible Heart® Research, and serves as Associate Director and Medtronic Chair of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine. He completed his MS and PhD studies in Physiology/Neurophysiology at the University of Minnesota and has been honored as a Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Fellow of AIMBE, Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society, Senior Member of IEEE, and inductee into the Academy for Excellence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. With over 290 original articles, more than 100 book chapters, 5 edited books, and numerous patents, he also mentors graduate students, postdocs, and medical trainees. His research interests focus on cardiac electrophysiology, cardiovascular device development, and systems physiology.