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George Van Hare MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS —
Second Vice President (2014 – 2015)
George F. Van Hare, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS is the Second
Vice President of the Heart Rhythm Society. He is the Louis
Larrick Ward Professor of Pediatrics, as well as the Director of
the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Washington University
School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Van Hare is a pediatric electrophysiologist and is a pastpresident of the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society. He is a fellow of the
Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Hare is a member of
the Adult Congenital and Pediatric Cardiology section, a member of the International
Society on Adult Congenital Heart Disease and a member of the American Heart
Association and the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young. He serves as the
Pediatric Chair of the Physician Electrophysiology examination given by the
International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners, and serves on the Board Exam
Committee for the new ABIM Subspecialty Examination in Adult Congenital Heart
Disease.
Dr. Van Hare’s research have been in the development of ablation methods in children
and in patients who have survived surgery for congenital heart disease, with a strong
focus on organizing multi-center pediatric studies. He led the NIH-funded pediatric
ablation study, PAPCA (Prospective Assessment after Pediatric Cardiac Ablation). He is
an author of more than 125 peer-reviewed studies and many reviews and book chapters,
and is Associate Editor of the textbook Pediatric Cardiovascular Medicine.
Dr. Van Hare attended medical school at the University of Connecticut, and completed
his residency in pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. He completed a
fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the
University of California San Francisco, where he also completed a clinical fellowship in
adult electrophysiology.
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