The Lead Podcast presented by Heart Rhythm Society

Melissa E. Middeldorp, MPH, PhD, University of Adelaide is joined by Jenelle Dziano, Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, The University of Adelaide and Jared Bunch, MD, FHRS, University of Utah School…

William H. Sauer, MD, FHRS, Brigham and Women's Hospital is joined by Wendy S. Tzou, MD, FHRS, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Kishan Padalia, MD, University of Colorado, to discus…

Deep Chandh Raja, MBBS, MD, PhD, Australian National University, Kauvery Hospital is joined by Andreas Pflaumer, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and Maully J. Shah, MBBS, FHRS, …

Melissa E. Middeldorp, MPH, PhD is joined by Martin K. Stiles, MBChB, PhD, FHRS, University of Auckland and Waikato Hospital and Eloi Marijon, MD, PhD, Paris University & European Georges Pompidou Ho…

Melissa E. Middeldorp, MPH, PhD is joined by Thomas F. Deering, BS, MBA, MD, FHRS, CCDS, and T. Jared Bunch, MD, FHRS to discuss a 31-item questionnaire was developed and distributed among healthcare…

Please join host Michael S. Lloyd, MD, FHRS at HRS 2025 in San Diego as he discusses this article with Stephanie Wang, MD and Emily Zeitler, MD. The study investigated whether PFA-induced coronary sp…

Please join host Jason T. Jacobson, MD, FHRS at HRS 2025 in San Diego as he discusses this article with Marmar Vaseghi, MD, MS, PhD, FHRS and Mayank Sardana, MBBS, MS. The prospective, multicenter, r…

This late-breaking randomized trial, published online on April 26, 2025 in Heart Rhythm, demonstrated that using CT scan guidance for ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation significantly shortens proc…

Left Bundle Area Pacing in Hypertrophied Hearts: An Ex Vivo Ovine Model to Study Deployment of Pacing Leads in Thick Septum describes the development of a novel ex vivo sheep heart model with induced…

Join us at Heart Rhythm 2025 for the discussion of this study. Between July 2014 and June 2023, researchers tracked 641 sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) incidents in U.S. athletes aged 11–29. Overall surv…

Join HRS Board Member Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS (University of Adelaide) as he discusses this exciting paper, presented at Heart Rhythm 2025. He is joined in the Heart Rhythm Tv Studio in …

Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS, University of Adelaide is joined by Jenish Shroff, MBBS, MD, Australian National University, and Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD, FHRS, Geisinger Heart Institute, to…

Michael S. Lloyd, MD, FHRS, Emory University is joined by Edward P. Gerstenfeld, MD, MS, FHRS, University of California, San Francisco, and Christopher C Cheung, MD, MPH, FHRS, Sunnybrook HSC, Univer…

Sandeep A Saha, MD, MS, FHRS, Oregon Heart Center PC is joined by Saket Sanghai, MD, FHRS, Oregon Health & Science University, and Naga Venkata Krishna Chand Pothineni, MD, Kansas City Heart Rhythm I…

Join host Elizabeth S DeWitt, MD, CEPS-P, and episode guests Cheyenne Beach, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P, and Robert Przybylski, MD as they discuss Sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of mortality in chil…

Join host Michael S. Lloyd, MD, FHRS and episode guests Ante Anic, MD and Konstantinos Vlachos, MD as they discuss the recent article Repeat Procedures after Pulsed Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrilla…

Join host Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS, and episode guests Jason G. Andrade, MD, FHRS, and Melanie Gunawardene, MD, as they discuss Pulsed Field or Cryoballoon Ablation for Paroxysmal Atrial …

Join host Michael S. Lloyd, MD,FHRS and episode participants Karim Benali, MD, PhD and Reinoud Knops, MD, PhD as they discuss this recent article that focuses on unique aspects of implantable defibri…

Join host and Digital Education Chair Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS, as he discusses this article from Nature with guests Anand N Ganesan, MBBS, PhD, and Tina Baykaner, MD, MPH. This trial was…