Dr. Steven Mickelsen currently serves as the Chief Translational Science Officer of Acutus Medical, guiding the innovation of the company’s access, diagnostics and therapy product portfolio. He is also the founder of Farapulse and brings more than a decade of experience in the development of breakthrough therapeutic medical devices. A board-certified electrophysiologist, Dr. Mickelsen received his medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency and clinical research at the Mayo Clinic. He also completed fellowships in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and was a Howard Hughes research scholar at the National Institutes of Health.
Pulsed Field Ablation can be used in several different ways, but its most valuable benefits are best illustrated through catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), and it’s important for it to be put in context.