Kevin Burns

Kevin Burns serves as a research scientist on the Heart Rhythm Science Center team. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. After working as an engineer for 10 years, he returned to the University of Minnesota and received a PhD in kinesiology in 2010, with an emphasis in exercise physiology and a minor in biomedical engineering.

His thesis work used echocardiography to study the synchrony of cardiac contractions in patients with pacemakers. Kevin continues to perform echo analysis for industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated trials, and he has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed journal articles.