Curriculum
Vitae
Research
Interest
Mathematical
modeling of cellular and tissue electrophysiology. Analysis of
data from experimental and clinical arrhythmias using techniques
of nonlinear dynamics ("chaos theory"). Development of
pharmacologic and electrophysiologic interventions to prevent or
control arrhythmias.
Representative
Publications
A
Garfinkel, M.L. Spano, W.L. Ditto and J.N. Weiss. Controlling
cardiac chaos. Science 257: 1230-1235, 1992
P
Krogstad, C Uittenbogaart, R Dickover, YJ Bryson, S Plaeger and
A
Garfinkel. Primary HIV infection of infants: the effects of
somatic growth on lymphocyte and virus dynamics. Clinical
Immunology 92:25-33 (1999)
Z.
Qu, F. Xie, and A. Garfinkel. Diffusion-induced vortex
filament instability in 3-Dimensional excitable media. Phys. Rev.
Lett 83: 2668-2671, 1999
S.
Port, L. Demer, R. Jennrich, D. Walter and A. Garfinkel.
Systolic blood pressure and mortality. The Lancet 355: 175-80,
2000.
A
Garfinkel, YH Kim, O Voroshilovsky, Z Qu, JR Kil, MH Lee, HS
Karagueuzian, JN Weiss and PS Chen. Preventing ventricular
fibrillation by flattening cardiac restitution. Proc. Nat Acad Sci.
97:6061-6066 (and cover), 2000.
Garfinkel, A.,
Y. Tintut, D. Petrasek, K. Bostrom and L. L. Demer (2004). Pattern
formation by vascular mesenchymal cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
101(25): 9247-50.
Xie, F., Z. Qu, J.
Yang, A. Baher, J. N. Weiss and A. Garfinkel (2004). A
simulation study of the effects of cardiac anatomy in ventricular
fibrillation. J Clin Invest 113(5): 686-93.
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