Peter Smetana

Peter Smetana graduated from Viennese Medical School in 1994. After general clinical training he started specializing in internal medicine. His major interest focused on cardiology and especially cardiac electrophysiology. Between 2001 and 2003, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Department of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences at St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, U.K. There, he has been involved in the analysis of ventricular repolarization form both short-term resting ECGs and ambulatory 24-h recordings. His primary interests included the influence of gender and heart rate on repolarization heterogeneity and dynamics of repolarization rate-dependency.