Dr. Robert Battle is a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Virginia Health System and serves as a cardiologist for the University of Virginia, James Madison University and other schools in the area. He is also co-director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center of Excellence and director of sports cardiology there. He began his career working with adults with congenital heart disease, but has expanded to work in pediatric cardiology, sports cardiology, and cardiovascular structural genetics.