Peter Karpawich, M.D., WSU professor of pediatrics and director of cardiac electrophysiology at Children's Hospital of Michigan, was an invited speaker at the Children's Hospital of Boston, Harvard Medical School, symposium on cardiac resynchronization pacing therapy in children. He was also an invited faculty speaker at the Medtronic pacemaker symposium on the latest pacing lead technology used in patients with congenital heart defects. In addition, Dr. Karpawich presented independent research, entitled "Need for Associated Interventional Devices during Ablation and Pacemaker Implant in Young Adults with Transposition/Mustard Anatomy" at the 27th annual Scientific Session of the Heart Rhythm Society, in Boston, in May. His co-investigators were Drs. Kavitha Chintala, WSU assistant professor of pediatric cardiology; Daniel Turner, WSU assistant professor of pediatric cardiology; and Thomas Forbes, associate professor of pediatric cardiology.