Friends of the Israel Heart Society

Charles Antzelevitch, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS
Executive Director
Director of Research
Gordon K. Moe Scholar
Masonic Medical Research Laboratory
2150 Bleecker Street
Utica, NY 13501-1787

Dr.Antzelevitch is the Executive Director and Director of Research of the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory (MMRL), an internationally prominent biomedical research institute located in Utica, NY.  He also holds an academic appointment as Professor of Pharmacology at the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse and an endowed chair in Experimental Cardiology (Gordon K. Moe Scholar) at the MMRL. 

Recent awards and honors include the Distinguished Scientist Award from the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE, Heart Rhythm Society), Excellence in Cardiovascular Science Award of the American Heart Association, Carl J. Wiggers Award of the American Physiological Society.  He has served as President of the international Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, a society of basic and clinical scientists and physicians from countries throughout the world specializing in cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias. He currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the Society.  His contributions to the scientific literature