Dr. Grauer received his M.D. from State University of New York at Syracuse in 1975. He was a resident at St. Margaret Memorial Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Grauer has been a leading family physician educator for the past 3 decades. During that time he has published (as principal author) more than 10 books and numerous study aids on the topics of ECG interpretation, cardiac arrhythmias, and ACLS. Dr. Grauer's books have been translated into 4 languages and have sold nearly 500,000 copies nationwide. Among his other accomplishments: principal author of more than 70 scientific articles pertaining to cardiology or ACLS topics for family physicians; featured speaker on more than 40 medical videos or audiocassettes produced by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) or Audio-Digest; principal author of several ECG Review columns that have been published monthly in family medicine journals since 1983; presenter at more than 300 major conferences over the past three decades on various cardiology topics for family physicians, nurses, and other primary care providers, including numerous keynote speaker invitations at national meetings and 9 main-stage presentations at national AAFP Scientific Assembly meetings; service on Editorial Boards for the journals Family Practice Recertification, Internal Medicine Alert, Emergency Medicine Alert, and Procedural Skills Bulletin; reviewer of medical books and articles for AFP, JABFP, JFP, Family Medicine, Archives of Family Medicine, Patient Care, and Mosby; recipient of numerous awards for teaching excellence on a local, statewide and national level, including 3-time recognition as Teacher of the Year at the Family Medicine Residency Program where he is based; recipient of the Superior Accomplishment Award and TIP Award from the University of Florida (one of two physicians to first receive this latter award); first recipient of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians Educator of the Year Award in 1993; first recipient of the national AAFP Exemplary Teaching Award for full-time faculty (in 1997); charter member of the Society of Teaching Scholars, UF College of Medicine (in 2000); and UF College of Medicine Distinguished Service Award (in 2000). Dr. Grauer has presented numerous ECG interpretation workshops at national conferences, including Advanced ECG Interpretation at the AAFP Scientific Assembly for 17 years in a row. As a former ACLS State and National Affiliate Faculty, Dr. Grauer has taught in well over 100 ACLS Provider Courses and has had a major role in developing the curriculum and teaching at numerous ACLS Instructor Courses over the years. He is a former member of the AHA Task Force for ACLS Testing, and a contributor in the past to the AHA ACLS Textbook. Dr. Grauer's reputation for teaching cardiology to diverse medical audiences (including nurses, paramedics, physician assistants, medical students, physicians in training, and physicians in practice) is nationally acknowledged. A lover of languages, he is near-fluent in French, comfortably conversational in Spanish and German and working on his Italian and Hebrew. Together with his life partner Cathy, they love dancing (ballroom, salsa, and especially Argentine tango).