Matthew Kay

Matthew Kay, PE, D.Sc., received a Bachelors and Masters degree from North Carolina State University. In 2000 he received a Doctorate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He completed Post-Doctoral training at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Dr. Kay was a research assistant professor at UAB and in the Dept. of Pharmacology and Physiology at The George Washington University before joining the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at GWU as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Kay's research is primarily focused upon understanding cardiac electrical activity during normal and disease conditions - with an overall goal of improving heart disease therapies. His expertise is in fluorescence and electrical imaging of heart tissue and cultures of cardiac cells. He uses custom image processing algorithms and computational models to test hypotheses and identify mechanisms of cardiac electrical pathologies. His recent studies have focused upon identifying ischemic mechanisms of ectopic arrhythmias.