Sudden Death in the Young

Drug Induced Arrhythmia

Dr. Haigney is a board-certified cardiologist and electrophysiologist who attends in the Cardiology and Cardiogenetics clinics at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He is the Director of the Defense Health Agency-funded Military Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (MiCOR) program. The MiCOR research portfolio includes 20 clinical research projects intended to understand the impact of military service- particularly inherited syndromes, stress, weight-gain, exercise, COVID-19 infection, sleep disordered breathing, combat injury, and pharmacotherapy- on cardiovascular risk. Dr. Haigney collaborates with USU geneticists and the Armed Forces Medical Examiners Service to provide post-mortem clinical assessment and genetic testing to the victims of sudden cardiac arrest in the military and their families. He is co-chair of the AHA/ACC scientific statement on the cardiovascular care of the tactical athlete including military personnel, fire-fighters, law enforcement, and astronauts. The Cardiovascular Laboratory at Uniformed Services University is primarily concerned with identifying mechanisms of sudden cardiac death, including those related to genetically transmitted arrhythmia syndromes. The lab combines basic and clinical investigations in a translational approach using inducible pluripotent stem cell derived myocytes and heterologous cells to understand the mechanisms of cardiac arrest in human subjects.