Leader in Electrocardiology Funds New Endowed Professorship - URMC

Wojciech Zareba, M.D., Ph.D. has been named the inaugural David Mortara Endowed Professor successful Cardiology, to beforehand the probe of exertion focused connected cardiac arrhythmias and bosom failure.

“For the past fewer decades,” said Zareba, “while attending meetings of technological organizations, I person often crossed paths with David, and this led america to semipermanent collaborations and friendship. We person benefited from each other’s enactment successful this field, and David’s generosity led to the constitution of this fund. It is an grant to beryllium the archetypal idiosyncratic to clasp this professorship.”

Zareba earned his M.D. and Ph.D. astatine the Medical University of Lodz, successful Poland. He came to URMC successful 1991 for his postdoctoral chap bosom probe follow-up program. He has been the main researcher connected aggregate NIH and firm grants, receiving implicit $35 cardinal successful backing implicit the years, and has authored implicit 700 publications.

David Mortara, Ph.D. has contributed importantly to exertion and innovation implicit the past 50 years. He founded Mortara Instrument, Inc., a shaper of non-invasive cardiology products and ECG technology. He is simply a prof of Physiology astatine the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing, and prof of Cardiology astatine UCSF School of Medicine.

Chair of Medicine, Ruth O’Regan, M.D., said “Dr. Zareba has made the University of Rochester his world location and has mentored countless numbers of trainees and inferior module implicit the past 2 decades. He is known for supporting others arsenic they prosecute their world careers, including assisting and advising during assistance preparation, and encouragement during those times erstwhile ideas, grants, papers, oregon the way looks bleak.”