Title
Professor of Pediatrics

Education
BA – The Johns Hopkins University; 1974
MD – The Johns Hopkins University; 1977

Postgraduate Training
Residency – University of Kentucky
Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship – University of Iowa

Clinical Interests

• Congenital heart disease in children and adults
• Pediatric electrophysiology (disturbances of cardiac rhythm)
• Pacemakers and implanted defibrillators in children and adolescents

Research Interests

• Pediatric cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• Pediatric defibrillation
• Pacemakers and implanted defibrillators in children and adolescents

Current Projects

• Evaluating usefulness of a home CPR kit for parents of high risk infants
• Epidemiology of cardiac arrest in children
• Determination of a termination of resuscitation algorithm for pediatric cardiac arrest
• Compliance of public access defibrillation programs with AHA guidelines
• Defibrillator design
• Optimal therapy of pharmacologic treatment of supraventricular tachycardia in infants

Affiliations

• Emergency Medical Systems Learning Resource Center
• Department of Internal Medicine

Model System: Human trials

Recent Publications

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Recent Publications

Contact Information:
Office:319-356-3540
E-mail: dianne-atkins@uiowa.edu