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Some
of the electrophysiologists at Hopkins include (left to
right, starting top row): Dr. Walter Atiga; Dr. Gordon Tomaselli;
Dr. Henry Halperin; Dr. Ronald Berger. (Front row): Dr.
Jane Crosson; Dr. Hugh Calkins.
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Hugh
Calkins, M.D.
Dr. Calkins is a professor
of cardiology and pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine; and Director of the Arrhythmia Service, the Electrophysiology
Lab and the Tilt Table Diagnostic Lab at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
He is Board-certified in internal medicine; cardiovascular disease;
and electrophysiology. He received his undergraduate degree from
Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he graduated
magna cum laude with highest honors in chemistry. He received
his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Calkins performed
his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital
in Boston. He was a postdoctoral fellow in cardiology at The Johns
Hopkins Hospital from 1986-1989. During that time he won first
place in the Young Investigator Competition from the North American
Pacing and Electrophysiology Society. From 1989 to 1992 he served
at the University of Michigan Hospital as an assistant professor
of medicine, an attending electrophysiologist and director of
the pacemaker service. From 1992 until the present, Dr. Calkins
has been with Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Calkins has co-authored
more than a hundred and fifty articles and book chapters. He also
serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cardiovascular
Electrophysiology and the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology.
He is an associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine
publication, Journal Watch for Cardiology.
His research is focused
on the areas of catheter ablation, syncope, arrhythmogenic right
ventricular dysplasia, as well as device therapy for treatment
of ventricular arrhythmias.
Ronald
Berger, MD, PhD
Dr. Berger is associate
director of the Electrophysiology Service of The Johns Hopkins
Hospital. He is Board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular
disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. He received his
undergraduate, master's and doctorate degrees from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and computer
science. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School,
Division of Health Sciences and Technology, in 1987. Between 1987
and 1990 he was a research fellow and later a research scientist
at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Dr.
Berger did his internship and residency at Brigham and Women's
Hospital in Boston. In 1990 Dr. Berger became a cardiology fellow
at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He subsequently became an assistant
professor of medicine and an attending electrophysiologist at
Hopkins in 1993. In 1996 he was promoted to associate director
of the electrophysiology service and in 1998 to his current position
as associate professor of medicine. He is a journal referee for
six major publications in the cardiovascular field. His numerous
distinctions include winning the 1996-2001 National Institutes
of Health FIRST Award, the 1996-1998 Solo Cup Clinician Scientist
Award and becoming a 1997 Cudahy Scholar. He holds four patents
on methods and devices used in electrophysiology diagnosis and
treatment. He has written more than 50 articles and book chapters.
His research interests
include mechanisms of sudden cardiac death, new modalities of
ablation therapy, autonomic modulation of arrhythmias and biomedical
signal processing. His clinical interests include interventional
electrophysiology; catheter ablation therapy; pacemaker and ICD
implantation and management; and antiarrhythmic drug and device
clinical trials.
Jane
E. Crosson, M.D.
Dr. Crosson heads the
pediatric electrophysiology service at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
and is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine. She is Board-certified in both
pediatrics and pediatric cardiology. Dr. Crosson received her
undergraduate degree cum laude from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg,
Florida, and her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia,
in Augusta. She performed her internship and residency at the
University of Maryland Hospital, becoming pediatric chief resident
in 1985. She was a pediatric cardiology and electrophysiology
fellow at the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis
from 1986-1990. She joined the faculty of The Johns Hopkins Hospital
in 1999, where her major research interests include cardiac electrophysiology,
the hemodynamics of tachycardia and immune-mediated congenital
AV block. She has co-authored several textbook chapters and published
a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Jeffrey
A. Brinker, M.D.
Dr. Brinker has been
with Johns Hopkins since 1981. He is currently the director of
the cardiac pacemaker service of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He
is a professor of medicine and radiology for the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and a consultant in
cardiology for the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda,
Maryland.
He received his undergraduate
degree from "New College" at Hofstra University in New York and
his medical degree from the State University of New York, Downstate
Medical Center, where he graduated AOA summa cum laude. Dr. Brinker
performed his internship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and his
residency at Kings City Hospital in New York. He was a fellow
in cardiology at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and
later a fellow in cardiovascular disease at The Johns Hopkins
Hospital. He is Board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular
disease and interventional cardiology.
Dr. Brinker's military
career included duty as Chief of Medicine for the 67th Evacuation
Hospital in Pleiku, the Republic of Vietnam. He has received five
medals, including the Bronze Star, among other honors, for his
military service.
As of May, 2000, Dr.
Brinker has published 166 articles in peer-reviewed and written
or co-authored eight chapters in medical textbooks. He is a reviewer
for seven major medical journals in his field and serves as an
active member of committees sponsored by national organizations
in cardiac pacing, electrophysiology, catheterization and medical
devices.
Dr. Brinker's research
interests include pacemaker therapy, lead extraction and interventional
cardiology.
J.
Kevin Donahue, M.D.
Dr. Donahue is an assistant
professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine and an attending electrophysiologist at The Johns Hopkins
Hospital. He is Board-certified in internal medicine. He graduated
magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, going
on to receive his medical degree from the same institution. He
performed his internship and residency at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania, then came to Johns Hopkins in 1994
as a cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellow. He attained
his current position with the Hopkins School of Medicine in 1999.
Dr. Donahue has won
numerous awards related to his gene transfer research, including
the 1987 Charles D. Coryell Award from the American Chemical Society;
and a 1998 NASPE (North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology)
travel grant. He was a national finalist in the 1996 Astra-Merck
Young Investigator competition.
His research interests
in gene delivery systems and methods have led to a number of articles
published in peer-reviewed journals; likewise a number of abstracts;
a patent application; and invitations to lecture on his findings
both in the U.S. and abroad.
Henry
R. Halperin, M.D.
Dr. Halperin is an
associate professor of medicine in cardiology and biomedical engineering
at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and director
of the Peter Belfer Cardiac Mechanics Laboratory. Dr. Halperin
is additionally the director of The Johns Hopkins Hospital CPR
team.
Dr. Halperin received
his undergraduate degree from Purdue University in Lafayette,
Indiana, graduating with highest distinction from the physics
honors program. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow at
the University of California Berkeley, where he received his master
degree in physics. He received his medical degree from Louisiana
State University in New Orleans. Dr. Halperin performed his internship
and residency at Louisiana State University Charity Hospitals.
He was a fellow in cardiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in
1981, becoming a full-time staff physician there in 1984. He is
Board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Halperin has authored
more than 75 articles and book chapters. He has received six patents
and has four more pending for systems and medical devices used
in electrophysiology. He has also received an investigational
device exemption from the FDA for a CPR technique.
Dr. Halperin is a journal
reviewer for eleven publications in his field; a grant reviewer
for the Veterans Administration and the National Heart, Lung and
Blood Institute; an abstract reviewer for the American College
of Cardiology and the American Heart Association; and a clinical
guidelines reviewer for the American Association of Respiratory
Care. He serves on the editorial board of Resuscitation magazine
and on several regional and national committees of the American
Heart Association.
Dr. Halperin has won
several distinguished awards, including the Physician-Scientist
Award from the National Institutes of Health (1984-89); the Established
Investigator Award from the American Heart Association (1989-94);
and the Frank McClure Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Applied
Physics Laboratory (1998-00). He has won seven of his eight research
grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Halperin's research
interests are focused on cardiopulmonary resuscitation as well
as the use of MRI to guide catheter ablation procedures.
Kaikobad
Irani, M.D.
Dr. Irani is an assistant
professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine and an attending electrophysiologist at The Johns Hopkins
Hospital. He is Board-certified in internal medicine. Dr. Irani
received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his medical degree
from the George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
He pursued his internship at the Hospitals of the University Health
Center of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, and his residency at Temple
University Hospital in Philadelphia. He became a medical staff
fellow at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda,
Maryland in 1991. In 1994, he became a cardiology fellow at The
Johns Hopkins Hospital, achieving his current appointment in 1998.
Dr. Irani's awards include a National Research Service Award from
the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute from 1992-1993; the
1994 National Associates Research Competition from the American
College of Physicians; and the 1997 Roche Cardiovascular Fellowship
Award, among others.
Gordon
F. Tomaselli, M.D.
Dr. Tomaselli is an
associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine and an attending electrophysiolgist at The
Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is Board-certified in internal medicine;
cardiovascular disease; and clinical electrophysiology and pacing.
He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from the
State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his medical
degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
He pursued his internship and residency in internal medicine at
the University of California at San Francisco. He went on to be
a research fellow in cardiology at the same institution. In 1986,
Dr. Tomaselli came to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
and became an assistant professor at Hopkins in 1989. He received
his current appointment in 1994. Dr. Tomaselli has written nearly
100 articles and book chapters. His research interests include
determination of the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias. He is
also interested in device therapy for the treatment of ventricular
arrhythmias.
Levi
Watkins, Jr., M.D.
Dr. Watkins is a professor
of surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is also and Associate
Dean at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is
recognized nationally and internationally for his pioneering work
on the implantable cardioverter defibrillator. He also has extensive
experience with all aspects of arrhythmia surgery.
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