James P. Daubert MD

James P. Daubert, MD, is a Professor of Medicine, DCRI faculty, and Senior Vice-Chief of Cardiology at Duke University. He served as the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Duke from 2009-2021.

Previously, he attended Williams College (cum laude), then Jefferson (MD; AOA), and then performed his postgraduate medical training at Duke including, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Electrophysiology, also serving as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine in 1988-1989. Thereafter, Daubert founded and developed the Electrophysiology program at the University of Rochester in 1992, leading it until 2009.

His research interests include: sudden cardiac death, ICD/CRT indications and programming, inappropriate shocks, inherited arrhythmias, sports cardiology and atrial fibrillation.

Daubert has served on all of the MADIT Executive Committees, numerous other Steering Committees, as well as Event Committees and DSMBs. He is a member of the ABIM CCEP Exam Approval Committee, and Chair of HRS Education Committee, and was formerly Chair of CCEP Program Director Subcommittee.

Daubert’s other roles have included Associate Editor of JACC EP, Associate Editor of JICE, Senior Consulting Editor of JACC HF, Editorial Board Membership for JACC, Heart Rhythm, and numerous journals.

Daubert teamed with Eric Prystowsky and George Klein to recently publish the 2nd Edition of Cardiac Arrhythmias: Interpretation, Diagnosis and Treatment. He was awarded the Simon Dack Award for Outstanding Scholarship Journal of American College of Cardiology in 2010. Daubert has also volunteered with Somos Amigos Medical Volunteer Organization in the Dominican Republic from 2006 through the present.