Dr. Charles Antzelevitch, Executive Director and Director of Research of the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, recently returned from a lecture tour in China organized by the Chinese Ministry of Health and the China Heart Rhythm Society. Starting in Shanghai, he traveled to Kunming, Beijing and Xi’An spending two to three days in each city, providing a lecture and interacting with local physicians and scientists. His lectures dealt with mechanisms underlying inherited cardiac arrhythmia diseases, including genetic methods helpful in the diagnosis of these syndromes and new approaches to therapy. A major focus of the lectures was a relatively new entity that Antzelevitch refers to as J wave syndromes. Recent work from the MMRL has shown that an Early Repolarization pattern in the ECG is not as benign as previously thought and could in some individuals be a harbinger of abnormal rhythms of the heart that can result in sudden cardiac death. According to Antzelevitch “the reception that we received in each city was exceptional and the level of the science was high”. The lecture in Beijing was broadcast to an audience of nearly 60,000 cardiologists and scientists located at medical centers throughout China. Antzelevitch was joined on the tour by Dr. Gan-Xin Yan, a prior fellow of his, who is currently Attending Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at the Lankenau Hospital and Director of Basic Cardiovascular Research Laboratory Main Line Health Heart Center Wynnewood, PA.