Research Professor of Internal Medicine (Emeritus), University of Utah School of Medicine.
Associate Director, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (2003-2008).
MD State University of Milan, Milano, Italy, Specialization in Cardiology.
PhD, Physiology, University of Brussels, Belgium.
PhD, Physiology, University of Pavia, Italy.
Biophysics of cardiac electric fields.
Three-dimensional mapping of potential and current distributions associated with excitation and recovery.
Genesis of the electrocardiogram: Experimental study and computer simulation.
Taccardi B, Punske BB: Body surface Potential Mapping: Chapter in: Zipes D, 2004; Jalife J (eds): Cardiac Electrophysiology. From cell to Bedside. W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, PA, 4th Edition, 2004;803-811.
Colli-Franzone P, Guerri L, Taccardi B: Modeling ventricular excitation: axial and orthotropic anisotropic effects on wave fronts and potentials., Math Biosci, 2004; 188/1-2 pp 191-205
Yilmaz B, Macleod Rs R, Punske Bb B, Taccardi B. Training set selection for statistical estimation of epicardial activation mapping from intravenous multielectrode catheters. J Electrocardiol. 2003; 36 Suppl: 40-1.
Punske BB, Ni Q, Lux RL, MacLeod RS, Ershler PR, Dustman TJ, Allison MJ, Taccardi B. Spatial methods of epicardial activation time determination in normal hearts. Ann Biomed Eng. 2003 Jul-Aug; 31(7): 781-92.
Jia P, Punske B, Taccardi B, Rudy Y. Endocardial mapping of electrophysiologically abnormal substrates and cardiac arrhythmias using a noncontact nonexpandable catheter. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2002 Sep; 13(9): 888-95.
Taccardi B. Can we detect and localize the effects of cardiac memory from body surface maps? J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2002 Apr; 13(4): 331. MacLeod RS, Punske B, Yilmaz B, Shome S, Taccardi B. The role of heart rate in myocardial ischemia from restricted coronary perfusion. J Electrocardiol. 2001; 34 Suppl: 43-51.
Burnes JE, Taccardi B, Ershler PR, Rudy Y. Noninvasive electrocardiogram imaging of substrate and intramural ventricular tachycardia in infarcted hearts. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2001 Dec; 38(7): 2071-8.
MacLeod RS, Ni Q, Punske B, Ershler PR, Yilmaz B, Taccardi B. Effects of heart position on the body-surface electrocardiogram. J Electrocardiol. 2000; 33 Suppl: 229-37.
Ni Q, MacLeod RS, Punske BB, Taccardi B. Computing and visualizing electric potentials and current pathways in the thorax. J Electrocardiol. 2000; 33 Suppl: 189-97.
Franzone PC, Guerri L, Pennacchio M, Taccardi B. Anisotropic mechanisms for multiphasic unipolar electrograms: simulation studies and experimental recordings. Ann Biomed Eng. 2000 Nov-Dec; 28(11): 1326-42.
Jia P, Punske B, Taccardi B, Rudy Y. Electrophysiologic endocardial mapping from a noncontact nonexpandable catheter: a validation study of a geometry-based concept. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2000 Nov; 11(11): 1238-51.
Burnes JE, Taccardi B, Rudy Y. A noninvasive imaging modality for cardiac arrhythmias. Circulation. 2000 Oct 24; 102(17): 2152-8.
Fuller MS, Sandor G, Punske B, Taccardi B, MacLeod RS, Ershler PR, Green LS, Lux RL. Estimates of repolarization dispersion from electrocardiographic measurements. Circulation. 2000 Aug 8; 102(6): 685-91.
Fuller MS, Sandor G, Punske B, Taccardi B, MacLeod RS, Ershler PR, Green LS, Lux RL. Estimates of repolarization and its dispersion from electrocardiographic measurements: direct epicardial assessment in the canine heart. J Electrocardiol. 2000 Apr; 33(2): 171-80.
Lux RL, Fuller MS, MacLeod RS, Ershler PR, Punske BB, Taccardi B. Noninvasive indices of repolarization and its dispersion. J Electrocardiol. 1999; 32 Suppl: 153-7.
Burnes JE, Taccardi B, MacLeod RS, Rudy Y. Noninvasive ECG imaging of electrophysiologically abnormal substrates in infarcted hearts: A model study. Circulation. 2000 Feb 8; 101(5): 533-40.
Punske BB, Lux RL, MacLeod RS, Fuller MS, Ershler PR, Dustman TJ, Vyhmeister Y, Taccardi B. Mechanisms of the spatial distribution of QT intervals on the epicardial and body surfaces. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 1999 Dec; 10(12): 1605-18.
Burnes JE, Kaelber DC, Taccardi B, Lux RL, Ershler PR, Rudy Y. A field-compatible method for interpolating biopotentials. Ann Biomed Eng. 1998 Jan-Feb; 26(1): 37-47.
Kuenzler RO, MacLeod RS, Taccardi B, Ni Q, Lux RL. Estimation of epicardial activation maps from intravascular recordings. J Electrocardiol. 1999 Apr; 32(2): 77-92.