Meet our Chief of Cardiology , and his research interests .

• Screening For Novel Genetic Pathways in Cardioprotection
• Molecular & Genetic Analysis of HSF Transcriptional Networks in Murine Development
• Molecular Mechanisms of aB-crystallinR120G Familial Cardiomyopathy
  
  
  
  

Research Programs

Research conducted by the faculty in cardiology can be divided into these broad areas: arrhythmias and sudden death, atherogenesis and coronary artery disease, heart failure and cardiac transplant immunology, interventional cardiology and molecular genetics of cardiac disease.

The Cardiology division faculty collaborate with the Departments of Surgery, Human Genetics, Pathology, Medical Informatics, Bioengineering, Pharmacology and Toxicology, also the faculty in other Divisions of Internal Medicine.

• Ongoing Clinical Trials
• Meet our Faculty

• The Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI)

Recent Publications

Dr. Sheldon Litwin was Principal invesitgator on a study that was published in the November 2006 Journal Hypertension, titled Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Severe Obesity, Interactions Among Blood Pressure, Nocturnal Hypoxemia, and Body Mass.

Reuters Health published an artilce about this study. Read article in Reuters Health written by Will Boggs, M.D.

Read the abstract of this article in the AHA Journal, Hypertension.