Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Hardwin Mead practices cardiac electrophysiology and cardiology, primarily at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City. Dr. Mead has been instrumental in the development of numerous cardiovascular technologies and has worked with numerous start-up companies in the past.  He and Dr. Roger Winkle, another prominent Bay area cardiac electrophyisiologist, began the first private cardiac electrophysiology practice in the Bay Area in 1984.  Dr. Mead did his fellowship in Cardiology, chief residency, residency and internship at Stanford Hospital.  He also attended medical school at Stanford University.  Dr. Mead attended Northwestern University on an Evans Scholars golf caddy scholarship before leaving his home in Chicago to come to Palo Alto.

As a practicing physician and the only member of both iRhythm’s Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Directors, Dr. Mead is able to directly bring the concerns of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Board of Directors and vice versa.  He has served on various physician advisory boards, including Medtronic for the past 20 years and the initial scientific advisory board for Ventritex, now part of St. Jude Medical. 

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Dr. Hugh Calkins is the Nicholas J. Fortuin M.D. Professor of Cardiology and Director of the EP Laboratory and Arrhythmia Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  Dr Calkins is an internationally recognized expert on catheter ablation, atrial fibrillation, syncope, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, and arrhythmia management.  Dr. Calkins returned to Johns Hopkins as Director of the Arrhythmia Service in 2002 after his first faculty position at the University of Michigan.   He received his cardiology training at Johns Hopkins and trained in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  Dr. Calkins attended Harvard Medical School and attended Williams College for his undergraduate degree.

As well as being a Board Member for iRhythm Technologies, Dr. Calkins is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology and is on the editorial board of the American College of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm, the Journal of Interventional Electrophysiology, and Circulation Electrophysiology.

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Dr. James Quinn has been on faculty at Stanford University since 2003 where he is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Research Director in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Quinn receives grant support from the National Institutes of Health and is nationally known for his research on syncope and clinical decision guidelines. Dr. Quinn completed his Masters of Science in Health Services Research at Stanford University in 2002.  Dr. Quinn joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco from 1998-2003. Prior to that he was faculty at the University of Michigan in 1996 and at the University of Ottawa, where he completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Ottawa in 1992.  Dr. Quinn graduated from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada in 1989.

As a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Quinn will provide expertise on the utilization of the iRhythm device in the emergency department setting.  Additionally, he has helped to author the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policy on syncope and has authored several chapters on syncope in the most renowned textbooks in Emergency Medicine.

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Dr. Michael Mirro specializes in the field of cardiac electrophysiology and clinical research and serves as a clinical professor of medicine at Indiana University.  Dr. Mirro has been a principal investigator in over 100 clinical trials over the past 30 years, and he is highly involved in the American College of Cardiology and Heart Rhythm Society.  He joined Fort Wayne Cardiology in 1981, where he currently practices today.  Dr. Mirro was previously a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa, where he established a cardiac electrophysiology program.  Dr. Mirro completed a research fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology, a clinical cardiology fellowship and residency of internal medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine.  He also earned his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Mirro is also involved in his local community, as a member of several advisory boards and a past chairman of the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce.

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