We are honored to have Dr. Eduardo Marbán deliver the 16th annual Gordon Moe lecture to the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society. Dr. Marbán presently is the Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also the Michel Mirowski M.D. Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Clinical Research.

Dr. Marbán received his Bachelors degree (mathematics, summa cum laude) from Wilkes College in Northeast Pennsylvania, and both his M.D. and Ph.D. (physiology) from Yale University. He then moved to Johns Hopkins University for internship, residency and post-doctoral training. After completing his cardiology Fellowship, also at Johns Hopkins University, he became an Assistant Professor of Medicine there and "climbed the ladder" by promotion to Associate Professor in 1988 and full Professor in 1991. In 1992, Dr. Marbán received the Robert L. Levy endowed chair and he established the Section of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, which he led until 1999. Dr. Marbán holds multiple secondary appointments (Physiology, Markey Graduate Program in Cellular and molecular Medicine, Biomedical Engineering). In 2003 he became Chief of Cardiology and Director, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Clinical Research.

Dr. Marbán has worked with many of today's preeminent scientists beginning with Richard Tsien. Others include Gil Weir, Myron Weisfeldt, Eugene Braunwald, and Gordon Tomaselli, to name only a few. Dr. Marbán has also helped to train a large cadre of today's productive scientists, including more than 50 postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Marbán's research efforts have spanned cellular and molecular electrophysiology, mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis, cell contraction, mechanisms of stunning and hibernation, gene transfer, to today's topic of stem cells in the heart. He has co-authored over 290 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Marbán has served in multiple capacities in multiple organizations, both nationally and internationally, and he presently is Editor in Chief of Circulation Research. Other honors include the Basic Research Prize, Distinguished Scientist Award, and Distinguished Service Award (Basic Sciences Council) of the American Heart Association. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the International Society for Heart Research, and of the American Physiological Society.