Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes Foundation
Steven E. Lipshultz, MD
Dr. Steven E. Lipshultz is a Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and the Associate Executive Dean for Child Health at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. He is the Chief of Staff of Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida. He was previously at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York, as a Professor of pediatrics and of oncology, and the Associate Chair of Pediatrics for Planning. While in Rochester, Dr. Lipshultz was the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center and at the Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong as well as the Director of the Children’s Heart Center at Strong from 1996 to 2003. Dr. Lipshultz is a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. His primary research interests are in the pediatric cardiomyopathies, especially those of genetic/metabolic, toxic, or infections/inflammatory etiologies. Clinical research on determinants of outcome for children with cardiovascular disease has been a major focus of interest as well.
James D. Wilkinson, M.D., M.P.H.
James D. Wilkinson, M.D., M.P.H. is a tenured Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He received both his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and his Medical Doctorate from the University of South Florida, and his Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Miami. He completed a pediatric residency at the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, N.Y. and a post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Intensive Care and Anesthesiology at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D. C. Dr. Wilkinson’s academic clinical years were primarily spent at the New York Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City followed by an appointment at the Children’s National Medical Center/ George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His research at that time was focused on multiple organ failure in children and resource utilization in the intensive care unit.
Dr. Wilkinson joined the faculty at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 2000 and until recently he was Director of Graduate Programs for the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health. Dr. Wilkinson now serves as the Senior Epidemiologist for the Division of Pediatric Clinical Research in the Department of Pediatrics. His current research interests are cardiomyopathy and heart failure in children, the epidemiology of cancer and HIV, and health effects of second-hand smoke exposure. He has significant experience in NIH- funded multi-site research studies in children and other vulnerable populations. Dr. Wilkinson teaches both medical and graduate students and has received numerous teaching awards.
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