Kevin.  J. Ferrick, M.D. was born in NYC and graduated with honors from the Cooper Union where he received a Baccalaureate degree in Chemical Engineering.  He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1977, and he subsequently completed training in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  He received subspecialty training in both cardiovascular disease and clinical electrophysiology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.  Currently, Dr. Ferrick is Professor of Clinical Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a full time member of the Arrhythmia Service at Montefiore Medical Center.  He is also Director of the cardiovascular training program Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Montefiore) - Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center affiliate as well as Director of the ECG department at Montefiore Medical Center.  Along with his colleagues in the Montefiore Arrhythmia Group, Dr. Ferrick has participated in numerous multi center clinical trials involving patients with cardiac arrhythmias.  His areas of research interest include device-based therapy for patients with known or suspected cardiac arrhythmias, the use of ablative therapy for the management of recalcitrant supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias and noninvasive risk stratification for the identification of patients at risks for sudden cardiac arrest.