Peng-Sheng Chen, MD, is the director of the Krannert Institute of Cardiology and the Division of Cardiology. He received his MD degree from National Taiwan University and completed residencies at the University of Texas Southwestern and was a cardiology fellow at Duke University Medical Center. Prior to joining the Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Dr. Chen was the Pauline and Harold Price Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where he also served as the director of the section of electrophysiology and electrocardiography and co-director of the Cardiovascular Intervention Center in the division of cardiology. Dr. Chen has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and serves as a member of the editorial board of Circulation, Heart Rhythm, and the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. He has contributed to the understanding of the mechanisms of cardiac fibrillation, defibrillation and the importance of the autonomic nervous system in cardiac arrhythmogenesis.