Mark H Schoenfeld MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS

Mark H. Schoenfeld is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and a Fellow of Saybrook College, Yale University. He is also Professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Frank H. Netter, MD School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University.  He established and has served as the Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacemaker Laboratory at the Hospital of Saint Raphael. He is the Director of the newly established Cardiac Electrophysiology Services at St. Mary’s Hospital. Dr. Schoenfeld graduated from Yale College and received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. He was an intern and resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was also a Fellow in Cardiology, Cardiac Electrophysiology, and Cardiac Pacing.

Dr. Schoenfeld is a Past President of The Heart Rhythm Society (and previously North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology-NASPE), and has chaired many HRS/NASPE committees in the past, including the Scientific Sessions Program Committee, Executive Committee, Awards Committee, Governance Committee, CME Committee, Nominations Committee, Bylaws Committee, Committee on Development of Position Statements, International Advisory Committee, Database Committee, and the Advisory Council. He has been a member as well of multiple HRS committees, including Strategic Planning; Development; Budget and Finance; Health Policy Committee; Reimbursement and Regulatory Affairs; HRS/ EHRA Expert Consensus Panel on Cardiac Device Monitoring; Sudden Cardiac Arrest 360 Task Force; and HRS liaison to United Health Care and has continued to serve on the Annual Scientific Sessions Program Committee. He was recently appointed to vice-chair the HRS Expert Consensus Document on CIED Lead Management and Extraction.  He reviews for 14 different medical journals and has served on the editorial boards of 4 of these. His clinical research interests are in the areas of cardiac electrophysiology and pacing, with a primary interest in devices and cardiac resynchronization therapy, and has published and lectured extensively in these areas in addition to developing clinical guidelines. He has served as Governor of the Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. He has served on multiple committees of the national ACC, including: ACC Coding and Nomenclature (CPT) Committee; ACC Clinical Electrophysiology/Pacemaker Committee; ACC/AHA/NASPE Writing Committee to Update Guidelines for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices; ACC/AHA/NASPE Committee for Clinical Data Standards in Electrophysiology; ACC Pacemaker Technical Advisory Panel; ACC Expert Consensus Panel on ethical coding and billing practices for cardiovascular medicine specialists,ACC Advocacy Steering Committee and ACC Health Affairs Committee and was recently appointed to vice-chair the ACC/AHA/HRS Guidelines on the Evaluation and Management of Patients with Bradycardia and Conduction Block.