Dr. Marco Perez is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he serves as Director of the Stanford Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic, Director of the Stanford Electrocardiography Laboratory, and Faculty Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Cardiovascular Diseases.

Dr. Perez earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University before completing his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He then moved to Stanford University, where he completed fellowships in Cardiology and Electrophysiology. In 2010, he founded the Stanford Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic and has since been managing families with inherited arrhythmic conditions.

Dr. Perez has led multiple high-impact research studies, including the NIH/NHLBI-funded WHISH STAR study, which examined the effects of exercise on cardiac arrhythmias in the elderly. He was co-PI of the groundbreaking Apple Heart Study, which tested wearable algorithms to detect atrial fibrillation. Currently, he serves as PI of the Clinical Coordinating Center for the REACT-AF trial, which explores the use of wearable devices to guide anticoagulant therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation. His laboratory also applies machine learning tools to assess cardiovascular disease risk.

Dr. Perez's work is supported by funding from the NIH/NHLBI, Apple Inc., Janssen, and the Colson Foundation.