Unexpected fatalities from heart attacks claim the lives of 12 people under the age of 35 in the UK each week, often without warning. Professor Behr and his team devote themselves to understanding and preventing the range of conditions that contribute to these sudden deaths.

Professor Behr is a recognised national and international expert and researcher in the field of arrhythmias. He is Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist specialising in Electrophysiology at St George's, University of London and St George's Hospital, London. He runs an Arrhythmia service and co-leads the Inherited Cardiac Conditions clinic at St George's, coordinating a multi-disciplinary team that provides a single one-stop service to families including children.

Professor Behr's research interests include prediction of sudden death risk pathology, genomics and epidemiology linked to electronic health records; drug-induced arrhythmia; families with unexplained sudden deaths, myocardial fibrosis, the Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); ion channel diseases including the long QT and Brugada syndromes; and cardiomyopathies including arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).

With your help, Prof Behr's group can continue their work to develop the research field even further, running pilot projects to secure further funding and expanding the multi-discipline team of experts who will be treating this issue for years to come.