Err - Natale trained in Italy, as I recall.

ANDREA NATALE- CURRICULUM VITAE

Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FHRS

Graduated with Honors in Medicine and Surgery at Universita' degli Studi di Firenze of University of Firenze in 1985
Specialized in Cardiology at the Catholic University of Roma, 1989
2005-2007 Medical Director of the Center for Atrial Fibrillation and Head of the Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Section, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Currently, Executive Medical Director of the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center, Austin, Texas; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland , Ohio; Consulting Professor, Division of Cardiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto California
Member of the Chairman Society of the Heart Rhythm Foundation
Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and Heart Rythm Foundation
Author of more than 200 peer-review publications in the field of arrhythmias
Editor and co-author of several books on arrhythmias
Reviewer – PACE, The Official Journal of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology
Reviewer – Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Reviewer – American Journal of Cardiology
Reviewer – Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
Reviewer – American Heart Journal
Reviewer – Circulation
Reviewer – Journal of Electrocardiology
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
Associate Editor of the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
Member of the Editorial Board and Advisory Committee of the Japanese Journal of Cardiac Arrhythmia
Program Committee Member for the Heart Rhythm Foundation
Member of the FDA task force on Atrial Fibrillation
Member of the Heart Rhythm Society task force for the preparation of a Consensus Document on Atrial Fibrillation.
Member of the Editorial Board of Advances in Arrhythmias
A pioneer in some of the present catheter based cures for atrial fibrillation.
The first cardiac electrophysiologist in the USA to perform percutaneous epicardial radiofrequency ablation.
Since 2004, he is named among the “Best Doctors in America”.