| Dr. Saul graduated from Duke University in 1978 with a BS in Physics. He earned his medical degree from Duke University Medical School in 1982, and completed his residency in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital, Boston in 1984. He went on to complete clinical and research fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology at Children’s Hospital in Boston and a fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois in 1987. After fellowship, he remained at Children’s Hospital, Boston as a faculty member, with an appointment as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1994. He joined the faculty at MUSC in 1997 as a Professor of Pediatrics, Cell Biology & Anatomy and Director of Pediatric Cardiology and The Children’s Heart Center of South Carolina. Dr. Saul has expertise in cardiac electrophysiology, the management of rhythm abnormalities of the heart, as well as syncope, palpitations and general pediatric heart problems. He performed the first radiofrequency catheter ablation for WPW syndrome in a child in 1990, and the first catheter cryoablation procedure in a child in the United States in 2003, and has continued to pioneer new techniques for the minimally invasive treatment of arrhythmias in children and adults with congenital heart disease. Dr. Saul’s research interests include heart rate variability as a measure of cardiac autonomic control, the role of the involuntary (autonomic) nervous system on the occurrence of syncope and paroxysmal arrhythmias, and innovative techniques for diagnostic and interventional cardiac electrophysiology. He has published more than 250 articles, chapters and books, and been awarded numerous awards and grants to support his research. Currently, he is the MUSC Principal Investigator for one of the eight clinical centers in the prestigious National Institutes of Health, Pediatric Heart Research Network. Dr. Saul is also the Medical Director of the MUSC Children’s Hospital.
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