Dr Sumeet Chugh is the Vice-Dean and Chief AI Health Research Officer at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles. He also serves as the Pauline and Harold Price Professor and Associate Director for Predictive Analytics at the Smidt Heart Institute. His scientific career has been dedicated to understanding the etiology and mechanisms of sudden cardiac death in the community, with the goal of improving prediction and prevention. For this purpose he has founded two real-time population cohorts in the western US, in a catchment population of 1.5 million. The Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study (Oregon SUDS) and the Ventura PREdiction of Sudden death in mulTi-ethnic cOmmunities study (Ventura PRESTO), bring together all regional hospitals, emergency medical systems and the medical examiner network to build a unique data repository of phenotyped patients linked to a biobank. Ongoing since 2002, this approach has helped to set the standard for population science approaches to out of hospital sudden cardiac arrest. The mechanisms as well as clinical, plasma and genomic biomarkers his team continues to identify are being explored as tools to enhance prediction and prevention of sudden cardiac death. Dr Chugh has led an independent and continuously funded research program since 2001 and has published >275 scientific papers (Citations >110,000, h-index 74, i-10 index 186, Google Scholar 2025). Dr. Chugh is the Past-President of the Association of University Cardiologists and the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society. He  received the 2024 Distinguished Scientist Award (Clinical Domain) from the American College of Cardiology, and the 2025 Distinguished Scientist Award (Clinical Research) from the Heart Rhythm Society. He is a frequent lecturer on sudden cardiac arrest and artificial intelligence-related topics and has accepted more than 400 national, international, and regional speaking engagements.