Ramon Brugada

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Ramon Brugada (also Ramon Brugada-Terradellas , * 1966 in Banyoles ) is a Spanish cardiologist . He is significantly involved in research into the molecular-biological basis of inherited cardiac arrhythmias , u. a. familial atrial fibrillation , short QT syndrome and Brugada syndrome . Brugada syndrome (also Brugada-Brugada syndrome ) is a rare and mostly inherited ion channel disease of the heart that can lead to sudden cardiac death, usually in early adulthood, in people with apparently completely healthy hearts . It was described by Ramon's older brothers Pedro and Josep Brugada in 1992 .

Life

Ramon Brugada was the last of four children of Ramon Brugada (1925–1999) and Pepita Brugada, b. Terradellas, born.

Ramon finished his medical studies in Spain in 1990 and went to the USA in 1992 to become a cardiologist there. After various positions as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston (Texas), Associate Professor of Medicine at Unstate University Medical Center in Syracuse (New York) and Director of Molecular Genetics Program at Masonic Medical Research Laboratory in Utica (New York) ) He is currently (as of 2007) Director of Clinical Cardiovascular Genetics Center at the Montreal Heart Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Université de Montréal in Montreal . He has received numerous awards for his work.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c American College of Cardiology: Merck Awardee Profile - Ramon Brugada, MD, FACC ( January 1, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive ) ., Accessed April 16, 2007.
  2. ↑ J. Brugada, P. Brugada, R. Brugada: The syndrome of right bundle branch block ST segment elevation in V1 to V3 and sudden death - the Brugada syndrome. In: Europace: European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology: journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology. Volume 1, Number 3, July 1999, pp. 156-166, ISSN  1099-5129 . doi : 10.1053 / eupc.1999.0033 . PMID 11225790 .
  3. ^ P. Brugada, J. Brugada: Right bundle branch block, persistent ST segment elevation and sudden cardiac death: a distinct clinical and electrocardiographic syndrome. A multicenter report. In: Journal of the American College of Cardiology . Volume 20, Number 6, November 1992, pp. 1391-1396, ISSN  0735-1097 . PMID 1309182 .
  4. ↑ Ramon Brugada Senior Foundation ( Memento July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed April 15, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Brugada, Ramon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brugada-Terradellas, Ramon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Banyoles