Igor Efimov Prof.

Biography

Igor Efimov, PhD, FNAI, FAIMBE, FAHA, FHRS
Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Professor of Medicine (Division of Cardiology)
Northwestern University, Chicago IL
Editor-in-Chief, Cardiovascular Engineering & Technology

Professor Efimov is the Director of the Cardiovascular Engineering Laboratory, an NIH-funded cardiovascular research and engineering laboratory that focuses on the physiological mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and on developing novel therapies for heart diseases with an emphasis on heart rhythm disorders.

Dr. Efimov earned BSc/MSc/PhD from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1992 and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh (1992-1994). He served on the faculty of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1994-2000) and Case Western Reserve University (2000-2004) in Cleveland, OH, Washington University in St. Louis, MO (2004-2015), and the George Washington University (2015-2022), where he served as the founding chairman of its new BME Department. In 2022, Dr. Efimov joined the faculty of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

Dr. Efimov is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering, the Heart Rhythm Society, the American Heart Association, etc. He has received numerous awards, including: 2022 International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences Naranjan Dhalla Award, 2021 Heart Rhythm Society Distinguished Scientist Award, RASA George Gamow Prize, Astor Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford, Washington University Chancellor’s Hartwell Prize for Innovative Research, The Doris J.W. Escher Lectureship at Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Walter Lillehei Lectureship at the University of Minnesota, Richard B. and Lynne V. Cheney Lectureship at the George Washington University, etc.