Titles
Interim Physician-in-Chief, UI Children's Hospital
Professor and Interim Head, Department of Pediatrics
Education
BS – Swarthmore College; 1981
MD – Washington University School of Medicine; 1985
Postgraduate Training
Residency – University of Iowa
Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship – University of Iowa
NIH Research Associate – Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics
Clinical Interests
Director of Pediatric Cardiology. Non-invasive assessment of cardiac anatomy and function. Primary imaging modality is echocardiography, also includes magnetic resonance imaging and ultra-fast computed tomography.
Research Interests
- Fetal and postnatal development of myocardial energy producing reactions
- Mechanisms of postnatal cardiac remodeling.
- Studies exploring the impact of the fetal environment on postnatal mitochondrial function and cardiac performance.
- Automated analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance images in patients with congenital heart disease
Current Projects
- Development of myocardial reducing equivalent shuttles and their regulatory enzymes
- Fetal programming of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species production
- Mechanisms of myocardial remodeling in the offspring of diabetic mothers
- Automated analysis of magnetic resonance images of the right ventricle in patients with tetralogy of Fallot and of the aorta in patients with connective diseases
Recent Publications
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