Positions

Instructor

Pediatrics-Cardiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Instructor/Physician Assistant

Pediatrics
Pediatrics/Pediatric Cardiology
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas United States

Addresses

TCH-West Tower (Clinic)

Room: TXWT-19345C
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-5923

Education

B.S. from University Of Texas Medical Branch

01/2000 - Galveston, TX United States

BBA from University of Houston

Houston, United States

Accounting

Certifications

Texas State Board of Medical Education

National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants

Professional Interests

• Cardiology Inpatient Care
• Single Ventricle

Websites

Selected Publications

• Bitner-Glindzicz M, Lindley KJ, Rutland P, Blaydon D, Smith VV, Milla PJ, Hussain K, Furth-Lavi J, Cosgrove KE, Shepherd RM, Barnes PD, O'Brien RE, Farndon PA, Sowden J, Liu XZ, Scanlan MJ, Malcolm S, Dunne MJ, Aynsley-Green A, Glaser B "A recessive contiguous gene deletion causing infantile hyperinsulinism, enteropathy and deafness identifies the Usher type 1C gene.." Nat. Genet.. 2000 Sep;26(1):56-60. Pubmed PMID: 10973248
• Chen Q, Kirsch GE, Zhang D, Brugada R, Brugada J, Brugada P, Potenza D, Moya A, Borggrefe M, Breithardt G, Ortiz-Lopez R, Wang Z, Antzelevitch C, O'Brien RE, Schulze-Bahr E, Keating MT, Towbin JA, Wang Q "Genetic basis and molecular mechanism for idiopathic ventricular fibrillation.." Nature. 1998 Mar 19;392(6673):293-6. Pubmed PMID: 9521325
• Carlson KM, Justino H, O'Brien RE, Dimas VV, Leonard GT, Pignatelli RH, Mullins CE, Smith EO, Grifka RG "Transcatheter atrial septal defect closure: modified balloon sizing technique to avoid overstretching the defect and oversizing the Amplatzer septal occluder.." Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2005 Nov;66(3):390-6. Pubmed PMID: 16142805

Memberships

American Academy of Physician Assistants