The mission of the Comprehensive Arrythmia Research & Management Center is to provide worldwide pioneering leadership in advancing clinical treatments and research for cardiac arrhythmias, especially atrial fibrillation, a disease that causes both short and long term impairment in the quality of life for millions worldwide. The CARMA Center is advancing research to understand this disease and to improve medical techniques and interventions that greatly improve the lives of patients.
In pursuit of this mission, the CARMA Center leverages the outstanding interdisciplinary research environment at the University of Utah to create a multifaceted and comprehensive program to better understand and manage cardiac arrhythmias. The Center casts a wide net, by inviting a diverse group of scientists and clinicians who are interested in partnering with the Center's research and clinical outcome goals. The Center creates novel opportunities for specialists from a wide range of fields, including Cardiology, Imaging, Biomarkers, and Biomedical Engineering and basic science disciplines to collaborate on investigations that advance the treatment of a disease that has a dramatic impact on societies across the world.
The CARMA Center also fulfills an academic mission by providing an interdisciplinary training program for undergraduate, doctoral, and medical trainees in the School of Medicine, Bioengineering, (Medical) Physics, Radiology, and the School of Computing at the University of Utah and University Hospital.
Ultimately, the CARMA Center will have achieved its mission when cardiac arrhythmia disease management teams have the ability to accurately diagnosis, treat, and cure the disease, allowing patients to return to healthy, productive lives
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