Peter R. Kowey M.D., FACC, FACP, FACCP, FCP
Medical Director and Chairman of Medical Advisory Board
Dr. Peter R. Kowey, MD, FACC, FACP, FACCP, FCP, has been Medical Director of BioTelemetry, Inc. and CardioNet, Inc. since 2002. Dr. Kowey serves as System Chief of Division for Cardiovascular Diseases at Mainline Health Hospitals. He serves as Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases- the Main Line Health System in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania and the William Wikoff Smith Chair in Cardiovascular Research at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. He served as the Chief of Cardiovascular Disease At Lankenau Heart Institute at Main Line Health, Inc. until January 2016. He served as the President of the Main Line Health Heart Center. He served as a Medical and Clinical Advisor of Synvista Therapeutics, Inc. (a/k/a Alteon Inc). Dr. Kowey joined the faculty at the Medical College of Pennsylvania as Director of the CCU and Arrhythmia Program and rose to the rank of full Professor. He has been the Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board at BioTelemetry, Inc. and CardioNet, Inc. since March 2009. He serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Cardiome Pharma Corp., and Blue Ash Therapeutics, LLC. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at InCarda Therapeutics, Inc. He has been a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at NewCardio, Inc. since July 2008. He serves as a Member of International Scientific Advisory Board at H???Y??? Bioscience International, LLC. He sits on the editorial boards of the Heart Rhythm Journaland the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Medifacts International, Inc. He served as Member of Scientific & Regulatory Advisory Board at 3D Communications Inc. He is also Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at Jefferson Medical College (also known as Thomas Jefferson University). He served as a Professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He also holds professorships at MCP/Hahnemann University. Dr. Kowey is a Fellow of several professional organizations including the Clinical Council of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the American College of Chest Physicians and the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. He served as a Founding Member of the Philadelphia Arrhythmia Group and a charter member of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. He has served on numerous committees for each of these organizations including program and abstract review committees for national and international programs. He spent nine years as a member of the Cardiorenal Drug Advisory Committee, four years on the Cardiovascular Devices Committee of the Food and Drug Administration. He is on the Expert Advisory Panel of the US Pharmacopeial convention. His principal area of interest is cardiac rhythm disturbances. Dr. Kowey is the recipient of over 150 grants and has authored or co-authored over 400 papers and scientific reports and he co-edited 3 textbooks on cardiac arrhythmia. He has provided consultation to over 60 international pharmaceutical companies and participated in a large number of pivotal clinical trials. He is a referee for manuscript review for 18 journals and an ad hoc grant reviewer for the VA system. While working with industry, he has pioneered the development of many antiarrhythmic drugs and antitachycardia devices that are used around the world for the treatment of patients with life-threatening cardiac rhythm problems. His latest venture is novel writing - his first mystery novel, Lethal Rhythm, was published in 2010. His second, Deadly Rhythm,was published in December 2012 and his third novel is in preparation. Dr. Kowey completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Penn State University and was a Fellow in cardiovascular medicine and research at the Harvard University School of Public Health, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the West Roxbury VA Hospital. He is a graduate of St. Joseph's University. Dr. Kowey received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.