Hugh Calkins

Hugh Grosvenor Calkins is an American cardiologist and academic. He is the Catherine Ellen Poindexter Professor of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directs the Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory, the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, and the Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD) Program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His research concerns cardiac electrophysiology, catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, syncope, and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).

Early life and education Calkins is the sixth of nine children of Evan and Virginia Calkins, and grew up in Hamburg, New York, where he graduated from Hamburg High School in 1975. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Williams College, graduating magna cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then received his Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School, completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and trained in cardiology at Johns Hopkins, followed by fellowship training in cardiac electrophysiology at Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan.

Professional service Calkins served as president of the Heart Rhythm Society from 2013 to 2014. He has served on the editorial boards of journals including Circulation, Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Heart Rhythm, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Awards and honors First prize, North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE) Young Investigator Competition (1988) Founders Lectureship Award, Heart Rhythm Society (2019) Eric N. Prystowsky Lectureship Award, Heart Rhythm Society (2023) Calkins H, Langberg J, Sousa J, et al. "Radiofrequency catheter ablation of accessory atrioventricular connections in 250 patients." Circulation. 1992;85(4):1337–1346. Calkins H, Hindricks G, Cappato R, et al. "2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation." Heart Rhythm. 2017;14(10):e275–e444.