• Internal Medicine
• Cardiovascular Disease - Internal Medicine
• Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology-Internal Medicine

• American Heart Association Chair in Cardiovascular Research
• Professor, Department of Medicine
• Professor, Department of Physiology

Coronary artery disease, sudden cardiac death, arrhythmias, electrophysiology, ACLS, cardiovascular consultation, cardiology education, heart disease in adolescents, young adults & athletes

SCD, arrhythmias, defibrillators in athletes

Areas of Specialization

• Cardiac arrest risk and sudden cardiac death
• Heart rhythm disturbances and clinical electrophysiology 
• Genetic arrhythmia syndromes

Robert J. Myerburg, M.D., professor of medicine and physiology, has been a distinguished member of the University of Miami MillerSchool of Medicine's faculty for more than 35 years. Dr. Myerburg served as director of the Division of Cardiology for 31 years, and he holds the American Heart Association Chair in Cardiovascular Research. Dr. Myerburg earned his medical degree from the University of Maryland where he also completed his internship. He was a resident in internal medicine at Tulane University and a cardiology fellow at Emory University/Grady Memorial. Dr. Myerburg was a research fellow in the Department of Pharmacology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Myerburg has served as principal investigator on multiple NIH grants on the mechanisms and clinical profiles of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. He is the principle investigator for the University of Miami site of a multi-PI international consortium on sudden cardiac death funded by the Leducq Foundation, and heads the Cardiovascular Genetics Center of the Division of Cardiology initiated by funding from the Miami Heart Research Institute.  Dr. Myerburg lectures on sudden cardiac death and arrhythmias, and has a special interest in heart disease in adolescents and athletes.