Asia Pacific Online Symposium on Cardiac Rhythm Management: Innovations in ICD & CRT-D Technology For Improved Patient Outcomes

Dr Harish Manyam received his training at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals (2012-2014) and stayed there as faculty and Assistant Professor of Medicine from 2013-2016. He served as the Head of the Lead Extraction Program at University Hospitals Case Western Reserve prior to joining the UT Cardiology group.

He serves as Chief of Cardiology, Director of Cardiovascular Research, and Head of the Atrial Fibrillation Center at Erlanger. He is actively involved with multiple research trials including monitoring the recurrence of atrial fibrillation, optimizing programing options in patients with biventricular defibrillators, and the assessment of lead extraction risk.

Dr Jitendra Singh Makkar is a Senior Interventional Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist (Director of Cardiology, ETERNAL HOSPITAL-Jaipur India) with special interest and expertise in the field of clinical electrophysiology, pacemaker & heart failure device management.

He has two decades of experience in the field of Cardiology and has worked with leading Cardiac Institutes across country. He has done fellowship in complex arrhythmia ablation from Korea University Medical Centre Seoul. He has performed thousands of coronary angioplasties, RF Ablations, Pacemaker & heart failure devices.

Dr Peter Illes graduated in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1980, and trained in internal medicine at the University of Capetown from 1990 to 1993. He then undertook training in Cardiology at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne as the Senior Registrar to Professor RWFC Campbell, the president of the British Heart Foundation.

Dr Illes attained the FRACP in Australia in 1998 and is currently in private practice at the above locations. His present interests include pacemaker insertion and specialised pacing, such as biventricular systems for heart failure, defibrillator insertion, and all aspects of interventional and diagnostic cardiology.

He is currently the Director of the Coronary Care Unit and Director of Echocardiology Services at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Senior Clinical lecturer at the Macquarie University Hospital and Consultant Cardiologist at Northern Beaches Hospital

Professor Chi-Keong Ching is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology and the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing at the National Heart Centre Singapore.

He completed his clinical fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing at the Cleveland Clinic, USA, in 2007. He is currently teaching at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School as an Adjunct Associate Professor. 

Professor Chu-Pak Lau is Honorary Clinical Professor of the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong.

He graduated in The University of Hong Kong in 1981 and received cardiology training in St. George's Hospital Medical School, Department of Cardiological Sciences, London, U.K.

His main research interest is on cardiac arrhythmias and implantable device therapy. He has published over 500 international papers, 28 chapters in cardiology textbooks on cardiac arrhythmias. He edited an international textbook on cardiac arrhythmia entitled ”Clinical Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation and Resynchronization Therapy”.

Professor Lau is past president of Hong Kong College of Cardiology and World Society of Arrhythmia, and President of Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (2019).