Andrea Natale M.D., F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S., F.E.S.C.
Executive Medical Director, Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute
St. David’s Medical Center, Austin, Texas
Professor, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Division of Cardiology, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Dr. Andrea Natale is the Executive Medical Director of TCAI at SDMC, Austin, Texas and the EP National Medical Director for HCA. Additionally, he is a professor and chief of the cardiology residency program in the University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. His many scientific achievements include being the first electrophysiologist in the nation and the world to perform his pioneering ablation procedures in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). A very prolific author and speaker, he was the Editor-in-Chief of JICE, and currently is the chief editor of JAFIB and deputy editor in Europace, President of VeniceArrhythmia and Director of several courses and summits. His EPLive in Austin is another successful accomplishment in his mission to education, including EPLATAM, EPLive Europe, EPLive Dubai and EPLive India.

Dr. Natale’s greatest reward is restoring his patients to a life free of cardiac arrhythmia. He pioneered a circumferential ultrasound vein-ablation system to correct atrial fibrillation and performed the procedure on the world’s first five patients. He developed some of the current catheter-based cures for AF and was the first cardiac electrophysiologist in the nation to perform percutaneous epicardial radiofrequency ablation, which is a treatment for people who fail conventional ablation.