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World Ranking
9264
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For leadership in the engineering sciences of cardiac excitation at the genetic and molecular levels and for introducing new methods in clinical diagnosis and therapy.
  • 1995 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Yoram Rudy is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. The main topics explored in their work include cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, cardiovascular function and risk factors, atrial fibrillation management and outcomes, cardiovascular effects of exercise, and cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies.

The scientist has published research in various journals, with multiple publications in the following venues:

  • Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
  • Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
  • Computing in Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • European Heart Journal

Frequent co-authors in their scientific collaborations include Ramya Vijayakumar, Michele Orini, George Joy, Iain Pierce, and Alun D. Hughes.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yoram Rudy include:

  • "A completely automated pipeline for 3D reconstruction of human heart from 2D cine magnetic resonance slices," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Electrophysiological Characterization of Subclinical and Overt Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy by Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Electrocardiography," 2024, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • "Study protocol: MyoFit46-the cardiac sub-study of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development," 2022, BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
  • "Technical development and feasibility of a reusable vest to integrate cardiovascular magnetic resonance with electrocardiographic imaging," 2023, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
  • "Noninvasive Mapping of Repolarization With Electrocardiographic Imaging," 2021, Journal of the American Heart Association

Yoram Rudy's scientific contributions include work spanning several subfields such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. The majority of their publications, however, are centered on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Across their career, Rudy has received several awards and honors. These include being named a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 1995, election as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for leadership in cardiac excitation engineering at genetic and molecular levels and introducing new diagnostic and therapeutic methods, and recognition as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2018.

Best Publications

  • A dynamic model of the cardiac ventricular action potential. I. Simulations of ionic currents and concentration changes.

    Ching-Hsing Luo;Y. Rudy

  • A model of the ventricular cardiac action potential. Depolarization, repolarization, and their interaction.

    Ching-Hsing Luo;Y. Rudy

  • Basic Mechanisms of Cardiac Impulse Propagation and Associated Arrhythmias

    André G. Kléber;Yoram Rudy

  • Simulation of the Undiseased Human Cardiac Ventricular Action Potential: Model Formulation and Experimental Validation

    Thomas O'Hara;László Virág;András Varró;András Varró;Yoram Rudy

  • Noninvasive electrocardiographic imaging for cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmia

    Charulatha Ramanathan;Raja N Ghanem;Ping Jia;Kyungmoo Ryu

  • From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Patient—Part III: Executive Summary of the Screening for Heart Attack Prevention and Education (SHAPE) Task Force Report

    Morteza Naghavi;Erling Falk;Harvey S. Hecht;Michael J. Jamieson

  • Ionic Mechanisms of Propagation in Cardiac Tissue Roles of the Sodium and L-type Calcium Currents During Reduced Excitability and Decreased Gap Junction Coupling

    Robin M. Shaw;Yoram Rudy

  • Noninvasive Cardiac Radiation for Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia

    Phillip S. Cuculich;Matthew R. Schill;Rojano Kashani;Sasa Mutic

  • Action Potential and Contractility Changes in [Na+]i Overloaded Cardiac Myocytes: A Simulation Study

    Gregory M. Faber;Yoram Rudy

  • A dynamic model of the cardiac ventricular action potential. II. Afterdepolarizations, triggered activity, and potentiation.

    Ching-Hsing Luo;Y. Rudy

  • Ionic Current Basis of Electrocardiographic Waveforms A Model Study

    Kazutaka Gima;Yoram Rudy

  • Linking a genetic defect to its cellular phenotype in a cardiac arrhythmia

    Colleen E. Clancy;Yoram Rudy

  • Early afterdepolarizations in cardiac myocytes: mechanism and rate dependence.

    Jinglin Zeng;Y. Rudy

  • Effects of IKr and IKs Heterogeneity on Action Potential Duration and Its Rate Dependence A Simulation Study

    Prakash C. Viswanathan;Robin M. Shaw;Yoram Rudy

  • Rate Dependence and Regulation of Action Potential and Calcium Transient in a Canine Cardiac Ventricular Cell Model

    Thomas J. Hund;Yoram Rudy

  • Genetic and Molecular Basis of Cardiac Arrhythmias: Impact on Clinical Management Parts I and II

    Silvia G. Priori;Jacques Barhanin;Richard N. W. Hauer;Wilhelm Haverkamp

  • Electrophysiologic effects of acute myocardial ischemia: a theoretical study of altered cell excitability and action potential duration.

    Robin M. Shaw;Yoram Rudy

  • The inverse problem in electrocardiography: solutions in terms of epicardial potentials.

    Rudy Y;Messinger-Rapport Bj

  • Localization of Sodium Channels in Intercalated Disks Modulates Cardiac Conduction

    Jan P. Kucera;Stephan Rohr;Yoram Rudy

  • Ventricular Fibrillation with Prominent Early Repolarization Associated with a Rare Variant of KCNJ8/KATP Channel

    Michel Haïssaguerre;Stéphanie Chatel;Stéphanie Chatel;Stéphanie Chatel;Frederic Sacher;Rukshen Weerasooriya

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert L. Waldo
Albert L. Waldo Case Western Reserve University
Robert Plonsey
Robert Plonsey Duke University
Franklin Dexter
Franklin Dexter University of Iowa
Dan M. Roden
Dan M. Roden Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Michel Haïssaguerre
Michel Haïssaguerre University of Bordeaux
Peter J. Schwartz
Peter J. Schwartz Istituto Auxologico Italiano
András Varró
András Varró University of Szeged
Richard B. Schuessler
Richard B. Schuessler Washington University in St. Louis
William J. McKenna
William J. McKenna University College London

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