Accomplishments

Publications

Members of the ICR have published more than 250 full papers, reviews, and chapters. Most of their original publications have appeared in high-impact and prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biophysical Journal, Physica D, Circulation and Circulation Research.

Memberships

ICR staff serve as leaders and members of numerous boards such as the American Heart Association's New York State affiliate and National Center, and Study Sections of the National Institutes of Health. In addition, ICR members serve on the editorial boards of many prestigious scientific journals, including Circulation Research, Circulation, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Archivos del Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia de MÈxico, CHAOS: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, PACE, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Revista Española de Cardiologia and Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Also, ICR members are frequently asked to review manuscripts submitted to journals such as Science, Nature, PNAS, American Journal of Physiology, American Heart Journal, IEEE, Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Electrocardiography, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Biophysical Journal, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, and Physica D.

Books

ICR Director JosÈ Jalife MD has edited or co-edited nine books, including Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside, WB Saunders Co., 2003, the preeminent textbook in the field, now in its fourth edition; Mathematical Approaches to Cardiac Arrhythmias, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1990; and Discontinuous Conduction in the Heart, Basic Electrophysiology for the Clinician and Optical Approaches to Cardiac Electrophysiology, all by Futura Publishing Co., Inc., 1997, 1998 and 2001, respectively.

Honors

Dr. Jalife is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including an honorary degree from the University of Buenos Aires, the Young Investigator Award from the American College of Cardiology, the Lamport Award from the American Physiological Society, an Established Investigatorship from the American Heart Association, the Research Award of the American Heart Association, NY Affiliate, the Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases from McGill University, the Durrer Lectureship at the University of Utrecht, the President's Award for Research at SUNY HSC (now SUNY Upstate), the Gordon Moe Lectureship of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, the 8th Annual Ramsey Lecturer in Physiology at the Virginia Commonwealth University, the Pfizer Visiting Professor Lectureship at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, and the Professor Pierre Rijlant Award from the AcadÈmie Royale de MÈdecine de Belgique in Brussels.

In 2001, Dr. Jalife received the prestigious Distinguished Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Heart and Vascular Center, CASE Western Reserve University. In 2002, Dr. Jalife received the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.