In November 2025, leaders from the Simms/Family Foundation and Cedars-Sinai gathered to celebrate the dedication of the Simms/Mann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology.
By endowing the chair position, the Foundation seeks to amplify research and catalyze innovative treatments for people with cardiac arrhythmia, while educating the next generation of physician-scientists in cardiac electrophysiology.
Michael M. Shehata, MD, is the inaugural Simms/Mann chairholder. Dr. Shehata is a board-certified Cardiac Electrophysiology Faculty Physician for the Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology in the Department of Cardiology Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Shehata is Director of the Interventional Electrophysiology Laboratory and is the Fellowship Program Director-Cardiac Electrophysiology.
An advocate for academia, training, and education, he also has an academic title of Professor of Medicine at Cedars Sinai and Associate Professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine as well as multiple peer reviewed manuscripts published annually in leading cardiology and EP journals. Dr. Shehata received his undergraduate degree at University of California Los Angeles in Chemical Engineering and earned his medical degree at University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He trained in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at Cedars-Sinai and then went on to UCLA as a junior faculty member in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center.
In 2008, Dr. Shehata came to Cedars-Sinai to build the clinical arrhythmia service and was appointed Director of the Implanted Cardiac Devices Clinic—involved in caring for patients with electronic devices such as defibrillators and pacemakers. He has also taken an interest in clinical trials focused on implementing new arrhythmia device technology at Cedars-Sinai.
