Fabio Badilini, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Physiologic Research
Dr. Fabio Badilini earned his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester and has had an influential career as a biomedical engineer focused on development of signal processing methods and algorithms in the context of cardiovascular signals, and in particular the electrocardiogram. He is the founder of AMPS LLC, a company that makes clinical and research grade analyses tools for ECG, Holter and other bio-signals that has not only become the widely-used standard in most pharma trials, but because it is recording-device agnostic is also used clinically (with many FDA-approved analyses algorithms). He is also founder of CardioCalm, SRL, an Italian-based telemedicine company. He has maintained his close ties with academia throughout his career and joined UCSF with a part-time appointment to direct the CPR in 2018. In this role, he has collaborated with many faculty in the Cardiology Division, supporting our Bio-Signal Core with using the AMPS tools. He has been an active member of International Society of Computerized Electrocardiology (ISCE), of which he is currently President, and the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium (CSRC), where he leads the ECG database committee.
Geoff Tison, MD
Co-Director, Center for Physiologic Research
Dr. Geoff Tison is a Cardiologist and an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the UCSF. Dr. Tison earned his Sc.B. in Neuroscience at Brown University and received his M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He completed internal medicine residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and subsequently completed fellowships in clinical cardiology, advanced echocardiography and preventive cardiology at UCSF. He also served as the first UCSF “Digital Cardiology” fellow, where his efforts were focused on validating and improving various digital, mobile and medical-device-based technologies to achieve the greatest impact in clinical care and medical research.
Dr. Tison brings expertise in clinical research, advanced machine learning algorithms and digital health to bear to further his research goals in cardiovascular disease prevention. He obtained formal training in epidemiology, statistical methods, machine learning and clinical research during his tenure at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and as a National Institutes of Health T32 scholar. Dr. Tison’s current interests include applying machine learning and deep-learning techniques to large-scale electronic health data from heterogeneous sources in order to achieve the goal of personalized cardiovascular prognosis and disease prevention.
David Mortara, PhD
Founder, Center for Physiologic Research
Dr. David Mortara earned his PhD in physics from University of Illinois and has been involved in the advancement of electrocardiography since 1973. He developed the GE 12-SL algorithm for ECG interpretation still in use today. Mortara's research spans ECG technology, including automated interpretation, exercise testing, and rhythm monitoring. He founded Mortara Instruments, known for high-quality ECG equipment, and later established the Center for Physiologic Research.