Peter J. Schwartz is the Director of the Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin and of the Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Milan, Italy; Extraordinary Professor in Internal Medicine at the University of Stellenbosch, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Medicine, and scientific board member of the The Cape Heart Institute of the University of Capetown, South Africa.