Dr. Herweg graduated from the University of Essen in Germany in 1988. He immigrated to the US in 1991 and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology in New York City. He graduated as an Electrophysiologist from Montefiore Medical Center, the birth place of cardiac pacing in the US. He worked as a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Pharmacology at Columbia University in New York performing research on atrial fibrillation and cardiac memory in animal models.
During a two year tenure at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York he gained experience in advanced ablative therapy of atrial fibrillation. He was the Director of the Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Service at the University of South Florida from 7/2002 to 6/2008 as well as the founding Director of the USF Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program from 7/2006 to 7/2008. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine in 6/2007.
Dr. Herweg has published 48 peer reviewed journal articles, 14 book chapters, 45 abstracts and monographs. He has presented and lectured at national and international meetings. He is a highly experienced clinician and arrhythmologist.