Omer Berenfeld

Omer Berenfeld, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. His research focuses on electrical cardiac wave propagation using experimental, clinical, and computational approaches to advance understanding and therapies for atrial and ventricular fibrillation. He is affiliated with the Biomedical Engineering community and works in cutting-edge research areas including biomedical computation, imaging, and cardiac electrophysiology.

• Location: North Campus Research Complex, Room 026-235S, Ann Arbor, MI
• Phone: (734) 998-7560

Research Interests: Studying cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms through:

• Dynamics of impulse propagation and reentrant activity
• Atrial fibrillation mechanisms
• Electrical/photonic mapping of cardiac fibrillation
• Biophysical mechanisms in inherited cardiac diseases

Research Areas: Biomedical Computation & Modeling, Biomedical Imaging (including Optics), Cardiac Electrophysiology