Michele M. Pelter is an associate professor and director of the ECG Monitoring Research Lab at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing. Dr. Pelter has led NIH funded research focused on hospital-based ECG monitoring in acute and critical care on a variety of topics, including arrhythmias, myocardial ischemia and alarm fatigue. The impact of her research is far-reaching and cited in nursing, medical and engineering journals. Dr. Pelter, collaborates with biomedical engineers to reveal important algorithm deficiencies that affect hospital-based ECG monitors. This led to her appointment as an associate translational scientist in UCSF’s Center for Bio-signals Research. She and her team established a one-of-a-kind annotated lethal arrhythmia database, to help hospitals, device manufacturers, and nurses understand how ECG devices perform. She has serve on committees with the American Heart Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine and the International Society of Computerized Electrocardiology. She serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing and Physiologic Measurement. Since 2001, she has co-authored the ECG Puzzler in the American Journal of Critical Care. Dr. Pelter received her ADN from Truckee Meadows Community College, her BSN from the University of Nevada, Reno, and her MS and PhD from UCSF.