Elijah Behr: Inherited Cardiac
Conditions and Arrhythmias
Professor Behr is a recognised national and international
expert and researcher in the field of arrhythmias. He is
Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary
Consultant Cardiologist specialising in Electrophysiology at St
George's, University of London and St George's Hospital,
London. He is also Consultant Cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic,
London.
He co-leads the Inherited Cardiac Conditions clinic at St
George's, coordinating a multi-disciplinary team that provides
a single one-stop service to families including children. His
clinical interests include:
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management of families with unexplained sudden
deaths, the Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS)
and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
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management of sudden death risk
•
management and treatment of arrhythmias
•
ablation of simple and complex arrhythmias including
atrial fibrillation
•
complex device therapy (ICD implantation and
biventricular pacing)
•
ion channel diseases including the long QT and Brugada
syndromes
•
drug-induced arrhythmia and QT prolongation
•
hypertrophic, dilated and arrhythmogenic right
ventricular cardiomyopathies.
Biography
Professor Behr was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and
studied medical sciences at St John's College, University of Cambridge
and clinical medicine at Guy's Hospital, London where he graduated
with distinction. He completed cardiology and academic training at St
George’s Hospital, London.
Professor Behr is past-president of the Association for Inherited
Cardiac Conditions (AICC). He co-leads the arrhythmia syndrome sub-
domain of the UK 100,000 Genomes Project Cardiovascular Genome
England Clinical Interpretation Partnership. He is an editorial board
member of the Heart Rhythm journal and co-wrote international
guidelines for diagnosis & management of arrhythmia syndromes and
more recently, for the investigation of cardiac arrest survivors and
sudden death victims and their families. He is the first chairperson and
founder of the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Genetics Group of the
European heart Rhythm Association.
Professor Behr is a member of the NHS England Clinical Reference
Group for Genomic Services as well as for Cardiovascular Services. He
is chairperson of the NHS and Coronial Sudden Unexpected Death
Pilot Steering Group.
His research interests include prediction of sudden death risk
pathology, genomics and epidemiology linked to electronic health
records; drug-induced arrhythmia; families with unexplained sudden
deaths, the Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) and Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); ion channel diseases including the long
QT and Brugada syndromes; and cardiomyopathies including
arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
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