Junaid AB Zaman, MA, BMBCh, MRCP, PhD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at University of Southern California. He also holds honorary appointments as a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London and as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. Since graduation from the University of Oxford, he has consistently sought to promote bedside teaching and clinical skills throughout his postgraduate training and has received multiple awards for his teaching at USC. He was a founding board member of the Society of Bedside Medicine to help promote excellence in bedside clinical skills. As a clinical academic cardiac electrophysiologist, he undertook a PhD at Imperial College London before being awarded the inaugural British Heart Foundation Fulbright Scholarship as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford. His research currently focuses on the electrophysiological mechanisms in persistent atrial fibrillation and how to improve methods to use them to tailor AF ablation. He was formerly the Heart Rhythm Society Ambassador to the European Heart Rhythm Association, and now serves on the Governance and Awards Committee at HRS.
