Robert S. MacLeod was trained in physics, electrical engineering, and physiology and is an associate professor of Bioengineering and Internal Medicine (Cardiology) at the University of Utah. He is an associate director of both the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute. He is the co-director of the NIH-funded Center for Bioelectric Field Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization at Utah and an investigator on several other interdisciplinary programs. The goal of Dr. MacLeod's own research is to bring theoretical, computational, and experimental techniques to bear on problems of cardiac electrophysiology, especially myocardial ischemia and arrhythmias. He has also created computational tracks in both the graduate and undergraduate programs in Bioengineering at Utah and is the director of these programs.