Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, who contributed to the current edition, is a well known and distinguished professor and electrophysiologist. He has been Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Cardiac Catheterization Lab as well as the electrophysiology fellowship program at UCLA Medical Center for many years. He is also currently editor-in-chief of JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, a well respected Elsevier/JACC cardiology journal. Dr Shivkumar will replace John Miller, MD who will retire from this edition.