Knight Named Cooley Distinguished Professor

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Bradley P. Knight, M.D., professor of medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine, has been named the Chester C. and Deborah M. Cooley Distinguished Professor of Cardiology.

Dr. Knight serves as the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology and the medical director of electrocardiography at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He is a cardiac electrophysiologist who treats patients with heart rhythm disorders. He is actively involved in the training of new heart rhythm specialists and serves as the director of the clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship program at Northwestern.

Knight, who is affiliated with the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, is involved in several multicenter clinical trials that evaluate novel ablation tools and implantable devices, including a totally subcutaneous implantable defibrillator.

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