Mark Josephson
| Mark Josephson | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 27, 1943 |
| Died | January 11, 2017 |
| Residence | Boston |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Cardiac electrophysiology |
| Institutions | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| Known for | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations authorship |
Mark E. Josephson, M.D., (1943-2017) was an American cardiologist and writer, who was in the 1970s one of the American pioneers of the medical cardiology subspecialty of cardiac electrophysiology. His classic text, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations, is widely acknowledged as the definitive treatment of the discipline. He was the Herman Dana Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute and Arrhythmia Service. He was also until 2016 the chief of cardiology at Harvard University's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Dr. Josephson is a graduate of Trinity College and subsequently went to medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and his fellowship training in cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
After spending two years as a research associate with Dr. Anthony Damato at the Staten Island Public Health Service Hospital, he published articles on the electrophysiologic basis and anatomic location of AV nodal reentry and map-guided subendocardial resection to cure ventricular tachycardia, a procedure Time dubbed "the Pennsylvania Peel" in honor of the Penn cardiology department's surgical innovation. Dr. Josephson's work helped to transform electrophysiology from a research field to a powerful clinical discipline for treating patients.
Dr. Josephson has published over 400 original journal articles and 200 book chapters and reviews and is the author of the fundamental textbook of clinical cardiac electrophysiology, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations.
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