Appendix 1.
Author disclosure table
| Writing group member | Employment | Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting | Speakers’ bureau | Research* | Fellowship support* | Ownership/Partnership/Principal/Majority stockholder | Stock or stock options | Intellectual property/Royalties | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmond M. Cronin, MB, BCh, BAO, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-A (Chair) | Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Frank M. Bogun, MD (Vice-Chair) | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Philippe Maury, MD (EHRA Chair) | University Hospital Rangueil, Toulouse, France | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Petr Peichl, MD, PhD (EHRA Vice-Chair) | Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic | 1: Abbott; 1: Biosense Webster; 1: BIOTRONIK | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Minglong Chen, MD, PhD, FHRS (APHRS Chair) | Jiangsu Province Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | 0: APHRS Board Member |
| Narayanan Namboodiri, MBBS, MD (APHRS Vice-Chair) | Sree Chitra Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Luis Aguinaga, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC (LAHRS Chair) | Centro Privado de Cardiología, Tucuman, Argentina | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Luiz Roberto Leite, MD, PhD, FHRS (LAHRS Vice-Chair) | Instituto Brasília de Arritmia, Brasília, Brazil | None | 1: Boehringer Ingelheim | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Sana M. Al-Khatib, MD, MHS, FHRS, CCDS | Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Elad Anter, MD | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts | 2: Itamar Medical; 3: Boston Scientific; 4: Biosense Webster | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Antonio Berruezo, MD, PhD | Heart Institute, Teknon Medical Center, Barcelona, Spain | 1: Biosense Webster | 1: Biosense Webster | 2: Biosense Webster | None | None | None | None | None |
| David J. Callans, MD, FHRS, CCDS | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1: Abbott Laboratories; 1: BIOTRONIK; 1: Medtronic; 1: Wolters Kluwer; 2: Boston Scientific | None | 4: NIH | 2: BIOTRONIK; 2: Boston Scientific; 4: Abbott; 4: Biosense Webster; 4: Medtronic | None | None | None | 1: Acutus Medical; 1: AtriCure; 1: Impulse Dynamics; 1: Thermedical; 3: Bayer |
| Mina K. Chung, MD, FHRS | Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio | 2: ABIM | None | 5: AHA; 5: NIH | None | None | None | 1: Elsevier; 1: Up to Date | 0: ACC (EP Section Leadership Council member); 0: AHA (Chair, ECG & Arrhythmias Committee; Member, Clinical Cardiology Leadership Committee; Member, Committee on Scientific Sessions Programming); 0: Amarin (Data monitoring committee member); 0: BIOTRONIK; 2: AHA (Associate Editor, Circulation Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology) |
| Phillip Cuculich, MD | Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri | 2: Medtronic | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Andre d’Avila, MD, PhD | Hospital Cardiologico SOS Cardio, Florianopolis, Brazil | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Barbara J. Deal, MD, FACC | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Paolo Della Bella, MD | Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy | 2: Biosense Webster; 2: Boston Scientific; 3: Abbott | None | None | 2: Medtronic; 3: Abbott Vascular; 3: Biosense Webster; 3: BIOTRONIK; 4: Boston Scientific | None | None | None | None |
| Thomas Deneke, MD, PhD, FHRS | Herz- und Gefäß-Klinik, Bad Neustadt, Germany | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Timm-Michael Dickfeld, MD, PhD, FACC, FHRS | University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland | 1: Abbott Laboratories; 1: Biosense Webster; 1: Impulse Dynamics; 1: Philips | None | 1: GE Healthcare | None | None | None | None | None |
| Claudio Hadid, MD | Hospital General de Agudos Cosme Argerich, Buenos Aires, Argentina | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Haris M. Haqqani, MBBS, PhD, FHRS | University of Queensland, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, Australia | 0: Abbott Laboratories; 0: Boston Scientific; 0: Medtronic | None | 3: Biosense Webster | None | None | None | None | None |
| G. Neal Kay, MD, CCDS | University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Rakesh Latchamsetty, MD, FHRS | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | None | 1: BIOTRONIK | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Francis Marchlinski, MD, FHRS | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1: Abbott; 1: Biosense Webster; 1: Boston Scientific; 1: Medtronic; 2: BIOTRONIK | None | 1: Abbott; 4: Biosense Webster | 2: BIOTRONIK; 2: Boston Scientific; 4: Abbott; 4: Biosense Webster; 4: Medtronic | None | None | None | None |
| John M. Miller, MD, FHRS | Indiana University School of Medicine, Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indianapolis, Indiana | 1: Abbott Laboratories; 1: Biosense Webster; 1: Boston Scientific; 1: BIOTRONIK; 1: Medtronic | None | None | 3: Biosense Webster; 3: Boston Scientific; 3: Medtronic | None | None | 1: Elsevier | None |
| Akihiko Nogami, MD, PhD | University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan | 1: Abbott Laboratories | None | 4: Medtronic | None | None | None | None | None |
| Akash R. Patel, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P | University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, California | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Rajeev Kumar Pathak, MBBS, PhD, FHRS | Australian National University, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia | 1: BIOTRONIK | 1: Medtronic | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Luis C. Saenz Morales, MD | CardioInfantil Foundation, Cardiac Institute, Bogota, Columbia | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1: Abiome; 1: Baylis Medical; 1: Biosense Webster; 1: Medtronic; 1: Stereotaxis; 2: Abbott Laboratories | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| John L. Sapp, Jr., MD, FHRS | Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Canada | 1: Abbott Vascular; 1: Biosense Webster; 1: Medtronic | None | 4: Abbott Vascular; 5: Biosense Webster | None | None | None | 1: Biosense Webster | None |
| Andrea Sarkozy, MD, PhD, FEHRA | University Hospital Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium | 1: Biosense Webster; 1: BIOTRONIK | None | None | None | None | None | None | 0: EHRA Board member |
| Kyoko Soejima, MD | Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan | 2: Abbott Laboratories; 2: Boehringer Ingelheim | 3: Medtronic | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| William G. Stevenson, MD, FHRS | Vanderbilt University Heart and Vascular Center, Nashville, Tennessee | 1: Abbot; 1: BIOTRONIK; 1: Boston Scientific; 1: Medtronic | None | None | None | None | None | 0: Biosense Webster; 0: Brigham and Women’s Hospital | None |
| Usha B. Tedrow, MD, MS, FHRS | Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts | 1: Abbott; 1: Biosense Webster; 1: Medtronic | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Wendy S. Tzou, MD, FHRS | University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado | 1: Abbott; 1: Biosense Webster; 1: BIOTRONIK; 1: Boston Scientific; 1: Medtronic | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Niraj Varma, MD, PhD | Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio | 1: BIOTRONIK; 1: Medtronic | None | 3: Abbott | None | None | None | None | None |
| Katja Zeppenfeld, MD, PhD, FESC, FEHRA | Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands | 1: Abbott | None | 5: Biosense Webster | 3: Biosense Webster | None | None | None | None |
Number value: 0 = $0; 1 = ≤ $10,000; 2 = > $10,000 to ≤ $25,000; 3 = > $25,000 to ≤ $50,000; 4 = > $50,000 to ≤ $100,000; 5 = > $100,000.
ABIM = American Board of Internal Medicine; ACC = American College of Cardiology; AHA = American Heart Association; APHRS = Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society; EHRA = European Heart Rhythm Association; LAHRS = Latin American Heart Rhythm Society; NIH = National Institutes of Health.
*
Research and fellowship support are classed as programmatic support. Sources of programmatic support are disclosed but are not regarded as a relevant relationship with industry for writing group members or reviewers.