Dr. Shivkumar is an interventional physician scientist who is currently, Professor in the Departments of Medicine (Cardiology), Radiology and Bioengineering at UCLA. He served as the founding director of the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs (since its establishment in 2002 until 2025) and as the inaugural Director of the Center for Interventional Programs at UCLA from 2011-present. He established a state-of-the-art interventional electrophysiology program at UCLA and developed several innovative therapies for the non-pharmacological management of cardiac arrhythmias, other cardiac diseases, and interventions beyond the heart. He has trained several leaders in the field of cardiac electrophysiology. He has a long track record of securing competitive extramural grants leading collaborative teams, currently he leads an NIH Program Project Grant on cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms and leads a Leducq Foundation International consortium grant. He has published several highly cited research papers and has developed intellectual property at UCLA that has been commercialized. He has been elected as a member of prestigious honor societies includingAmerican Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the Association of American Physicians (AAP), and Association of University Cardiologists (AUC). He was also elected as an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London (FRCP). He was named as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology in 2020 and his term was renewed again in 2025. He served as the president of the International Society of Autonomic Neuroscience (2019- 2022). His scientific focus is to develop neuroscientific therapies for various organ diseases (the concept- ‘Internet of the Human Body’). He is the inaugural holder of the Lakshmi Aravamudan Endowed Chair at the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru, India). He is also a Visiting Professor of Arrhythmia Medicine at Oxford University (UK) and a Physician Associate at the Merkin Institute for translational research at California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA, USA). He founded the Amara-Yad Project, an open access knowledge portal for medical education.