Dr. Lior Gepstein graduated his MD studies at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel and conducted his PhD thesis at the same institute under the supervision of Prof. Shlomo Ben-Haim. During this period he was involved in the development of a three-dimensional electroanatomical mapping techniques (CARTO system), which became the state-of-the-art technology for the treatment of complex cardiac arrhythmias. Dr. Gepstein completed his residency in internal medicine and Cardiology fellowship at Rambam Health Care Campus and fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of California, San Francisco. Currently, he serves as the director of the Cardiology Department at Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. He also holds the position of Professor of Physiology and Medicine and the Sohnis Chair in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Prof. Gepstein's research activities focus on the areas of cardiac electrophysiology,