Eugene Crystal

Dr. Crystal is a staff cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Arrhythmia Services at the Schulich Heart Centre. He joined the Division of Cardiology in 2002. He is a founder of the Arrhythmia Services at Sunnybrook and he served as a Director of the services between 2010 and 2020.

Dr. Crystal is a Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto. He also serves as an Associate Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute, and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael Hospital.

He is a Chairman of the National Ablation Committee (Canadian Heart Rhythm Society). He is the President of the Society For Cardiac Remote Navigation of Americas (SCRN-A), and President of Global SCRN. He is a board member of the World Society of Arrhythmia and a founding member of the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society. He is also a board member of the Ontario Association of Cardiologists.

Dr. Crystal is the Chairman and Founder of the Winter Arrhythmia School, the largest Arrhythmia educational event in Canada.

His research interests are in ablation strategies for various cardiac arrhythmia, and in development of robotics and automation in ablation therapy, as well as in the optimization of arrhythmia device therapies. He authored and co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts in clinical and experimental cardiology. He holds numerous patents in the field of cardiology.

Currently, he is a Principal Investigator of DxAF trial (AF in ICD patients) and SPARTAC trial (sham ablation trial in SVT).

Dr. Crystal is a member of over 15 scientific committees of international Cardiac Electrophysiology congresses and a reviewer for numerous journals in the field of cardiovascular medicine.

Dr. Crystal is co-appointed as Cardiologist/Electrophysiologist at Women's College Hospital