Maurits Allessie (born 1945) is an emeritus professor of physiology at

Maastricht University Maastricht University (abbreviated as UM; nl, Universiteit Maastricht) is a public research university in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 1976, it is the second youngest of the thirteen Dutch universities. In 2021, 22,383 students studied at ...

. As an electrophysiologist he developed better insights in atrial fibrillation.

Career

Allessie was born in 1945 in

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, the Netherlands, and was raised in Amsterdam. He obtained his MD from the

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in 1974, and his PhD from

in 1977. At age 38 he became a professor of physiology at the latter university, and seven years later he became head of the department. During his career Allessie studied heart problems. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Scientist Award of the

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, and in 2011 the Founders Lectureship Award. Allessie became member of the

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in 2003. The academy praised Allessie for developing better insights into atrial fibrillation and

electrophysiology Electrophysiology (from Greek , ''ēlektron'', "amber" etymology of "electron"">Electron#Etymology">etymology of "electron" , ''physis'', "nature, origin"; and , '' -logia'') is the branch of physiology that studies the electrical properties of b ...

of the heart. He was a professor between 2003 and 2008. Allessie has stressed the importance of classical/integral physiology in research and education.

References

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