Dr. Yoram Rudy PhD, FAHA, The Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, delivered the Kazuo Yamada Lecture titled “Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia” to the Japanese Society of Electrocardiology in Toyama, Japan on October 7, 2005. He also conducted a workshop on the molecular and genetic basis of cardiac arrhythmias in Nagoya, Japan on October 10, 2005.