Gan-Xin Yan is an American cardiologist, electrophysiologist and cardiovascular research scientist. His studies of arrhythmias have contributed to an understanding of J wave syndromes, long QT syndrome, and other abnormalities that can lead to sudden cardiac death. Yan is a professor at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR) and a practicing cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Lankenau Medical Center, both located in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.[1] He also holds positions as professor of medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and Xi'an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.[1]
Yan earned his MD in 1982 from Hubei Medical College, Xianning School in Xianning, Hubei, China.[1] In 1986, he earned an MSc in physiology from Henan Medical University (now part of Zhengzhou University) in Henan province, and then completed a one-year residency in the discipline. In 1991, he earned a PhD in physiology from the University of Bern in Switzerland. Yan completed a residency in internal medicine in 1999 and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease in 2003, both at Lankenau Medical Center. He joined the LIMR faculty in 2004 as associate professor and was later named professor.[1]
He is a member of the editorial boards of Heart Rhythm,[2] the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology,[3] and Cardiology.[4]
In 2015, Yan served as co-chair of the J-Wave Syndromes Expert Consensus Conference in Shanghai, China,[5] and edited a medical textbook.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Gan-Xin Yan, MD, PhD – LIMR – Researcher Profile". Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ "Editorial Board". HeartRhythm. Retrieved 2016-11-1.
- ^ "Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology – Editorial Board – Wiley Online Library". Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. Wiley. Retrieved 2016-11-1.
- ^ "Cardiology Editorial Board – Karger Publishers". Cardiology. Karger. Retrieved 2016-11-1.
- ^ Antzelevitch, Charles; Yan, Gan-Xin; Ackerman, Michael J; Borggrefe, Martin; Corrado, Domenico; Guo, Jihong; Gussak, Ihor; Hasdemir, Can; Horie, Minoru; Huikuri, Heikki; Ma, Changsheng; Morita, Hiroshi; Nam, Gi-Byoung; Sacher, Frederic; Shimizu, Wataru; Viskin, Sami; Wilde, Arthur A.M (2016). "J-Wave syndromes expert consensus conference report: Emerging concepts and gaps in knowledge". Journal of Arrhythmia. 32 (5): 315. doi:10.1016/j.joa.2016.07.002. PMC 5063270. PMID 27761155.
- ^ Antzelevitch C, Yan GX, editors (2016). J Wave Syndromes: Brugada and Early Repolarization Syndromes. Cham (Switzerland): Springer. ISBN 3319315765.[page needed]