Address:

Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
601 N. Caroline St.
Baltimore, MD 21287

Appointment Phone:

410-502-0550

Fax:

410-955-8883

Undergraduate School:
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Medical School:
Medical College of Wisconsin

Residencies:
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine

Fellowships:
Cardiovascular Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Interventional Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Board Certificates:
Internal Medicine
Cardiovascular Disease
Interventional Cardiology

Current Positions:
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Director, Interventional Cardiology

Clinical Interests:
Percutaneaous coronary interventions including stenting, drug eluting stenting,
laser ablation, rotational atherectomy,
extractional atherectomy
Treatment of bypass graft disease with distal protection devices
Treatment of adult congenital heart disease including patent foramen ovale, atrial septal defects, aortic coarcation, and patent ductus arteriosus
Pharmacologic agents to improve outcome of PTCA and stenting
Percutaneous treatment of valvular stenosis including mitral stenosis and pulmonary stenosis with balloon valvuloplasty
New imaging modalities
Cardiac Catheterization
Arrhythmia
Interventional cardiology

Research Interests:
New devices for coronary disease, coronary intervention and percutaneous valve treatment
New drugs for coronary procedures including platelet inhibitors (CP IIb/IIIa drugs) and direct thrombin inhibitors
Coronary hemodynamics
Methods to improve endothelial function
Arteriopathy of cardiac transplant patients
Angiogenesis
New markers of coronary atherosclerosis

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