Dr. Rob MacLeod
Background:
My education has included degrees in Physics (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering (M.Sc.) and Physiology (Ph.D.)
from far away places like Halifax, Nova Scotia and Graz Austria. I came to Utah in 1990 as a post-doc, met
Chris, and we have been causing trouble ever since.
Current Responsibilities:
I am an associate director of the CVRTI and have a research group there focussing on cardiac
electrophysiology, the study of the heart's electrical activity. Within the SCI Institute, I
am a member of the executive committee responsible for the biomedical research projects,
especially the NIH NCRR Center. I also teach physiology and about bioelectric fields in
Bioengineering, where I head the computational track in both the graduate and undergraduate
programs.
My Vision:
My long term goal is to help describe the entire electrical activity of the heart in
quantitative terms and to be able to simulate this behavior. This will keep me busy. My other
goal is to ride in the Tour de France, so this makes the first goal seem easy.
Research Interests:
Electrocardiographic Mapping
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Computational Electrophysiology
Scientific Visualization
Bioelectric Signal Processing
Publications -- MacLeod
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