Dr. Jonathan Drezner is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Director of the UW Medicine Center for Sports Cardiology at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA – USA). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, and he is Team Physician for the Seattle Seahawks (NFL), Seattle Reign (NWSL), and the University of Washington. Dr. Drezner is past-President of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM, 2012-13) and Director of the Division for Cardiac Injury in Sport for the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. Dr. Drezner has dedicated his career to the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest and death (SCA/D) in young athletes and the development of effective models for prevention. His primary research has focused on the incidence and etiology of SCA/D, cardiovascular screening and ECG interpretation in athletes, and emergency response planning and the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in the school and athletic settings.

Dr. Drezner chaired or co-chaired several fundamental consensus statements to advance the cardiovascular care of athletes including: the 2007 inter-association task force on emergency preparedness and the management of sudden cardiac arrest in high school and college athletic programs; the 2016 AMSSM position statement on cardiovascular screening in athletes; and the 2013 Seattle Criteria and 2017 International Criteria for ECG interpretation in athletes which emerged as contemporary standards to distinguish physiologic ECG findings from abnormalities suggestive of a pathologic cardiac disorder. He is currently co-PI and founder of the Outcomes Registry for Cardiac Conditions in Athletes (ORCCA) study designed to monitor health outcomes in competitive athletes diagnosed with pathologic cardiac disorders. Dr. Drezner has presented his research in sports cardiology both nationally and internationally and has over 210 peer-reviewed publications: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Drezner+J&sort=date