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Lucas Boersma was born in The Netherlands in 1965. He graduated from Medical School in 1996 at the University of Maastricht. In the same year he finished his PHD on Ventricular Tachycardia in the Rabbit Heart. He completed his Cardiology specialty training in 2000 at St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, and his subspecialty training in Electrophysiology in 2001 at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona.
Since then he is a staff member and Electrophysiologist at St.Antonius Hospital in The Netherlands. He was Head of the Cardiology Department from 2008-2016, as well as Medical Manager of the Cardiovascular Unit from 2011-2017. He was chairman of the Netherlands Heart Rhythm Society from 2011-2016, and is now chairman of the Committee for Science& Innovation of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology NVVC. In between he was Treasurer of the Netherlands Cardiovascular Data Registration. In 2017 he was appointed as a special Professor of Cardiology at the University of Amsterdam.
