He is a first author for the International Guidelines for Electrocardiography (ECG) Interpretation in athletes [1] and was the 19th President of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) in 2012.

[3] Routine ECG screening has been performed in Italian athletes for many years in the general population and has strong acceptance in Europe.

As ECG screening became more routine in elite and professional athletes, experts from around the world tried to set criteria for normal athlete ECG appearances that minimized false positive and false negative cases.

[6][7] These new International guidelines have quickly become the universal gold standard in interpretation of the athletic ECG.

Drezner and the University of Washington have developed educational resources for physicians to improve their ability to follow the criteria to accurately interpret athletic ECGs, including with the British Medical Journal[8] and Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians.