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Steve Poelzing

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Steve Poelzing, associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, and Soufian AlMahameed (not pictured), who was the director of the Carilion Clinic's Center for Atrial Fibrillation, led the research team that first identified the perinexus in the human heart. This tiny pocket has big implications for people with irregular heart beats.

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