About the authors

Mina K Chung

Mina K Chung is a staff cardiologist in the Section of Pacing and Electrophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center. Her speciality interests lie in cardiac electrophysiology, ablation for supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, pacemakers and defibrillators.

Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer

Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer is Head of the Sleep Medicine Program at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and a staff neurologist in the Department of Neurology. Her clinical interests include sleep and epilepsy, women's health and epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy surgery.

Virend K Somers

Virend K Somers is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. His research activities include the investigation of neural, vascular and genetic mechanisms linking sleep disorders to cardiovascular disease and autonomic, vascular and neuroendocrine mechanisms linking obesity to cardiovascular disease.

Paul A Friedman

Paul A Friedman is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. His current work is focused on applied cardiac electrophysiology, with special interest in non-pharmacologic therapy for atrial fibrillation, arrhythmia mapping techniques and implantable defibrillators.

Paul J Wang

Paul J Wang is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. His clinical specialties are arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation and syncope and his research interests include pacemakers, defibrillators, catheter ablation and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.