William G. Stevenson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee USA

 January 2026

Dr Stevenson received his bachelor’s degree from University of South Florida and his medical degree from Tulane University.  After training in cardiology at UCLA Center for the Health Sciences he was a research fellow at the University of Limberg, the Netherlands under the direction of Hein Wellens.  He joined the faculty of Medicine at UCLA in 1985 and moved to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in 1993 where he became Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 2005.  In 2017 he joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University Medical center where he is currently Professor of Medicine. 

In the late 1980s Dr Stevenson established a program for catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias at UCLA.  In a series of clinical and computational modeling projects he defined techniques to characterize reentry circuit sites based on the response to programmed electrical stimulation.  These techniques have remained a cornerstone of arrhythmia evaluation and mapping for over 3 decades.  Work to address intramural arrhythmia substrates as a particular problem led to development of an irrigated needle electrode catheter for mapping and ablation.  His program at Vanderbilt continues to explore novel methods to help patients with cardiac arrhythmias.  He has published more than 600 papers on these topics.

Through clinical and research fellowship programs he has mentored over 70 trainees from the US and abroad. He is the recipient of multiple lectureships and awards for teaching, clinical care and investigation including the Mirowski Award for Excellence in Clinical Cardiology and Electrophysiology (2012), the Golden Lionel Award from the Venice Arrhythmia Meeting (2015), the Mark Josephson Memorial Lectureship of the Annual VT Symposium (2022).  He has been previously honored by the Heart Rhythm Society with the Distinguished Teacher Award (2018), the Prystowsky Lectureship (2016), and the Founders Lectureship (2023) and the Pioneer Award (2025). He is past president of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society (2009).  He is the founding editor of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology of the American Heart Association (2008-2017) and is the co-editor of Zipe’s and Jalife’s Cardiac Electrophysiology from Cell to Bedside.