Dr. Francis Marchlinski

Francis Marchlinski, MD, is a cardiac electrophysiologist and the Richard T. and Angela Clark President’s Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Translational Center of Excellence. His clinical focus includes complex heart rhythm evaluation and management, catheter-based electrophysiology procedures, and implantable cardiac device therapy. Dr. Marchlinski’s research interests center on the mechanisms of cardiac rhythm disorders, advanced mapping and ablation technologies, and optimization of device-based rhythm care. His achievements include the Luigi Mastroianni Clinical Innovator Award, the Venice Arrhythmia Distinguished Scientist Award, the ACTS Distinguished Investigator Award for Career Achievement, the Heart Rhythm Society Distinguished Teacher Award, and the Eric N. Prystowsky Advocate for Patients Award. He has also held prominent leadership roles in academic electrophysiology and serves as Arrhythmia Section Editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, while mentoring generations of electrophysiology specialists. He earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, completed his internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and went on to complete fellowships in cardiology and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.