Jonathan A. Drezner is an American sport and exercise medicine physician, currently

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of the ''

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''. In both clinical practice and research he has a strong interest in

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. He is a first author for the International Guidelines for

Electrocardiography Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), a recording of the heart's electrical activity. It is an electrogram of the heart which is a graph of voltage versus time of the electrical activity of the hear ...

(ECG) Interpretation in athletes and was the 19th President of the

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(AMSSM) in 2012.

Sports cardiology

Drezner is a world leader in the emerging subspecialty of

Sports cardiology Sports cardiology is an emerging subspecialty field of Cardiology. It may also be considered a subspecialty field of Sports medicine (or Sport & Exercise Medicine), or alternatively a hybrid subspecialty that spans cardiology and sports medicine. ...

. Within the United States, he is a strong advocate for inclusion of ECG/EKG screening in the preparticipation examination of athletes, as ECG screening has far superior sensitivity and specificity than physical examination. Routine ECG screening has been performed in Italian athletes for many years in the general population and has strong acceptance in Europe. As ECG screening became more routine in elite and professional athletes, experts from around the world tried to set criteria for normal athlete ECG appearances that minimized false positive and false negative cases. The Seattle criteria were led by Drezner and reported reductions in false positives compared to the previous criteria in use.

International guidelines for ECG interpretation in athletes

Drezner as the first author of the Seattle criteria and Sanjay Sharma representing European experts became co-first authors of new International Guidelines for ECG interpretation in athletes, co-published in the

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and

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in 2017 and 2018. These new International guidelines have quickly become the universal gold standard in interpretation of the athletic ECG. Drezner and the University of Washington have developed educational resources for physicians to improve their ability to follow the criteria to accurately interpret athletic ECGs, including with the ''

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'' and

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Research

He has published over 200 works with over 11,000 citations and with an H-index of 51. Key themes include electrocardiography interpretation in athletes, concussion and prevention of sudden cardiac death in athletes, especially with the use of

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s. He was appointed in 2021 as the Editor-in-Chief for the

, generally considered the world's leading

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journal by Impact Factor. It had a 2019

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of 12.680.

Team physician work

He is Team Physician for the

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, and participated in the 2014 Super Bowl. He is also a long-standing team physician for the

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and the Head physician for the US Women's soccer team.

External links

60 Minutes Sports: The Heart of an Athlete NFL Films - Recognition and Management of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in athletes (featuring Jonathan Drezner)

References

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