Damian P. Redfearn was born and educated in the U.K. He graduated from the University of Leicester Medical School and specialized in internal medicine with subspecialty training in cardiology at the Birmingham University teaching Hospitals. He moved to Canada in 2004 to pursue research and clinical training within the field of cardiac electrophysiology. He was recruited to Queen's University in Kingston, ON, Canada, in 2006 and was appointed the Director of the Heart Rhythm Service in 2007. He has overseen the growth of the electrophysiology program at Kingston General Hospital with the addition of complex ablation and the delivery of a full spectrum of electrophysiology services and procedures to the south eastern Ontario region. He is a clinician scientist with a special interest in applied computer science holds several peer reviewed research grants to investigate the mechanisms of atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmia through advanced signal processing.