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Published in final edited form as: Heart Rhythm. 2020 Oct 19;18(1):e1–e50. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2020.10.010
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

Martin K. Stiles, MBChB, PhD, FHRS (APHRS Chair) Waikato Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, The University of Auckland, Hamilton, New Zealand None None None None None None None None
Arthur A. M. Wilde, MD, PhD (HRS Chair) Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Heart Center, Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands None None None None None None None None
Dominic J. Abrams, MBBS, MD, MBA Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA None None None None None None None None
Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 0: Abbott; 0: Audentes Therapeutics; 0: Boston Scientific; 0: Gilead Sciences; 0: MyoKardia; 1: InVitae; 1: Medtronic None 5: NIH None None None 0: AliveCor; 0: Blue Ox Healthcare; 0: StemoniX None
Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH, FHRS Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA 1: Roche Diagnostics None 5: Abbott; 5: NIH; 5: Roche Diagnostics None None None None None
Elijah R. Behr, MA, MBBS, MD Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s, University of London, and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom None None None None None None None None
Sumeet S. Chugh, MD, FHRS Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA None None 5: NIH 4: Abbott; 4: BIOTRONIK; 4: Boston Scientific; 4: Medtronic None None None President, Cardiac Electrophysiology Society (2020–2022)
Martina C. Cornel, MD, PhD Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands None None None None None None None 0: European Society of Human Genetics (Vice Chair of Public and Professional Policy Committee); 0: VSOP (Dutch Genetic Alliance) (Board Membership)
Karen Gardner, MPH, PhD University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia None None None None None None None None
Jodie Ingles, GradDipGenCouns, PhD, MPH, FHRS Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology at Centenary Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia None None 3: MyoKardia None None None None None
Cynthia A. James, ScM, PhD, CGC Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA None None 1: NSGC; 2: Boston Scientific None None None None 0: NSGC (Chair of the Practice Guidelines Committee)
Jyh-Ming Jimmy Juang, MD, PhD Cardiovascular Center and Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan None None None None None None None None
Stefan Kääb, MD, PhD Department of Medicine I, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany 1: AstraZeneca; 1: Bayer None 1: BIOTRONIK; 1: Boston Scientific; 1: Medtronic None None None None None
Elizabeth S. Kaufman, MD, FHRS MetroHealth Campus, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA None None None None None None None None
Andrew D. Krahn, MD, FHRS The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 1: Medtronic None None None None None None None
Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1: Bayer; 1: Bristol-Myers Squibb None 5: AHA; 5: Bayer; 5: Boehringer Ingelheim; 5: Bristol-Myers Squibb; 5: Fitbit; 5: IBM; 5: NIH None None None None None
Heather MacLeod, MS, CGC Data Coordinating Center for the Sudden Death in the Young Case Registry, Okemos, Michigan, USA None None None None None None None None
Carlos A. Morillo, MD, FHRS Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1: Abbott; 1: Medtronic; 1: Servier None None None None None None None
Koonlawee Nademanee, MD, FHRS, CCDS Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Medicine, and Pacific Rim Electrophysiology Research Institute at Bumrungrad Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand 1: Biosense Webster None 4: Medtronic None None None 3: Biosense Webster None
Vincent Probst, MD, PhD CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France 1: BIOTRONIK; 1: Boston Scientific; 1: Medtronic None 5: Boston Scientific None None None None None
Elizabeth V. Saarel, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Cardiology at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and St Luke’s Medical Center, Boise, Idaho, USA None None None None None None None None
Luciana Sacilotto, MD, PhD Heart Institute, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil None None None None None None None None
Christopher Semsarian, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FHRS Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology at Centenary Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia None None None None None None None None
Mary N. Sheppard, MB, BCH, BAO, MD, FRCPath Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s, University of London, and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom None None None None None None None AECVP (Past President)
Wataru Shimizu, MD, PhD Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan None None None None None None None None
Jonathan R. Skinner, MBChB, MD, FHRS Cardiac Inherited Disease Group, Starship Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand None None None None None None None None
Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, MD, DMSc Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark None None None None None None None None
Dao Wu Wang, MD, PhD The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China None None None None 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.

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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. AHA = American Heart Association; AECVP = Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology; NIH = National Institutes of Health; NSGC = National Society of Genetic Counselors.