Kevin Heist is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Physician in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Heist obtained his MD and PhD degrees at Stanford University in 1998. He then did residency in internal medicine at UC San Francisco (1998-2000), and fellowship in cardiovascular disease (2000-2003) and then clinical cardiac electrophysiology (2003-2004) at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is Director of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship. He has been on the cardiac electrophysiology faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2004, where he has a busy clinical and procedural EP practice. He is active in clinical investigation, and has over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals. He has numerous ongoing clinical trials. He is on several editorial boards, and is an author related to atrial fibrillation in Up to Date.