Richard NW Hauer
Netherlands Heart Institute, Netherlands
Biography
Hauer was born in 1947 in Amsterdam. He obtained MD graduation in 1974 at Leiden University and in 1980 Board Certification in Cardiology at Amsterdam University (mentor prof. Durrer). His mentors in Clinical Electrophysiology were Prystowsky and Zipes at Indiana University. In 1987 Hauer obtained his PhD degree with a thesis on ventricular arrhythmias and catheter ablation. In the years 1996-2012 he was full professor in Clinical Electrophysiology at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Hauer is author or co-author of 190 publications in the field of cardiac arrhythmias in peer-reviewed international journals and member of the editorial board of Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. He was mentor of 15 PhD students.
Since 2005 Hauer is project leader of the Netherlands Heart Institute project on Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy with focus on diagnosis, genotype-phenotype correlation, and long-term risk assessment. This project is in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (Dr. Calkins).
Abstract
Abstract : Genotype-phenotype correlation in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies