Hugh Grosvenor Calkins is an American cardiologist and academic. He is the Catherine Ellen Poindexter Professor of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directs the Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory, the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, and the Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD) Program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His research concerns cardiac electrophysiology, catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, syncope, and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
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Early life and education
Calkins is the sixth of nine children of Evan and Virginia Calkins, and grew up in Hamburg, New York, where he graduated from Hamburg High School in 1975. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Williams College, graduating magna cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then received his Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School, completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and trained in cardiology at Johns Hopkins, followed by fellowship training in cardiac electrophysiology at Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan.