Brian O’Rourke

Electrophysiology

Johns Hopkins University

About

Brian O’Rourke works in Electrophysiology affiliated with Johns Hopkins University.

Brian O'Rourke is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology. He also serves as the Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research for the Department of Medicine. His research integrates biophysics, energetics, and physiology to study cardiac cells in normal and diseased states, focusing on mitochondrial roles in heart failure and arrhythmias.

Research focus

Mitochondrial dysfunction in arrhythmogenesisCardiac excitation-contraction couplingReactive oxygen species in cardiac myocytesEnergy metabolism oscillations in heart cellsIon channel regulation in heart failure

Impact

448 pubs · 28,441 cites · h-index 93

Training

PhD in Physiology
Thomas Jefferson University College of Graduate Studies
1990
BS in Biochemistry
Pennsylvania State University
1983

Affiliations

Work Experience

Professor of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine · 1993 - Present

Fellowship in Cardiology Division

Johns Hopkins University · 1990 - 1993