Dr. Kudenchuk is Pro­fes­sor of Med­i­cine in the Divi­sion of Car­di­ol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, with a clin­i­cal prac­tice in car­di­ol­ogy and car­diac electrophysiology.He is Prin­ci­pal Inves­ti­ga­tor for the Resus­ci­ta­tion Out­comes Con­sor­tium, an NIH-supported mul­ti­cen­ter net­work that is per­form­ing ran­dom­ized clin­i­cal tri­als in out-of-hospital car­diac arrest and life-threatening trauma; Asso­ciate Med­ical Direc­tor of King County Emer­gency Med­ical Ser­vices; and Asso­ciate Edi­tor for the Amer­i­can Heart Association’s Text­book of Emer­gency Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Care and CPR.