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SHEILA K. HEINLE, M.D.

1982  

1986

1986-87

1987-89

1989-91

1989

1991-2001

1998-2008

2000-2011

B.A., Biology
Cum Laude
University of Virginia      Charlottesville, Virginia

M.D.
Cum Laude
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Internship, Internal Medicine Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Residency, Internal Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Fellowship, Division of Cardiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North, Carolina

American Board of Internal Medicine

 American Board of Cardiovascular Disease Certification

National Board of Echocardiography

Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography

American Board of Cardiovascular Disease

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Fellow, American College of Cardiology
American Heart Association
Fellow, American Society of Echocardiography (elected 11/02)

1978

1978-82

1981-82

1985

1986

1989

Class Valedictorian

Echols Scholar, University of Virginia

Lawn Room for leadership and service       University of Virginia

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society

Heard Junior Prize for Outstanding Student  in Medicine

 Assistant Chief Resident in Medicine
Duke University Medical Center

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:  

  Correlation of Adenosine Echocardiography with Thallium Scintigraphy
  Divisions of Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine
  Duke University Medical Center

  Predictive Value of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography for
  Restenosis Following Coronary Angioplasty
  Division of Cardiology
  Duke University Medical Center

  Predictive Value of Echocardiography for Embolic Events in Patients
  With Infective Endocarditis
  Divisions of Cardiology and Infectious Disease
  Duke University Medical Center

  Correlation of Echocardiography with Technetium Sestamibi Imaging 
  During Dobutamine Infusion
  Divisions of Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine 

  Detection of Prosthetic Paravalvular Leaks by Transesophageal
  Echocardiography
  Division of Cardiology and Cardiac Anesthesiology
  Duke University Medical Center 

  The Effect of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography on MR
  Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center

  Hypotension and Left Ventricular Outflow Obstruction during Dobutamine Stress
  Echocardiography
  Division of Cardiology
  Duke University Medical Center

  Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Valvular Heart Disease
  Division of Cardiology Duke University Medical Center

  Primary Investigator, a Phase 3 Multicenter, Single-Blind Study Comparing
  Non-Enhanced Stress Echocardiography and Contrast-Enhanced Stress
  Echocardiography in the Visualization of Cardiac Wall Motion and the Diagnosis of
  Coronary Artery Disease.
  Division of Cardiology
  UT Southwestern Medical School and Dallas VA Medical Center

  Comparison of Power Doppler Harmonic Imaging with Technetium-99m     Sestamibi
  Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography.  A Prospective Study of 123 Patients
. Division of Cardiology
  UT Southwestern Medical School and Dallas VA Medical Center

PUBLICATIONS:

Kim SA, Waugh RA: Valvular Heart Disease in Current Diagnosis, eighth edition, Conn, R (ed); W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1991.

Longabaugh JP, Sheikh KH, Bengston JR, Rankin JS, deBruijn NR, Heinle SK, Kisslo JA. Transesophageal Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Management of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation. Coronary Artery Disease 1992; 3:377-81.

Heinle SK, Durack DT, Longabaugh JP, Kisslo JA: Can Echocardiographic Results be Used to Predict the Risk of Embolization During Infective Endocarditis: Choices in Cardiology, Parisi AE (ed) 1993; 7:79-81.

Kisslo J, Adams D, Longabaugh JP, Heinle SK. The Added Importance of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Imaging Regurgitation through Prosthetic Valves. Cardiovascular Imaging by Ultrasound; Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993; 245-251.

Heinle S, Hanson M, Gracey L, Coleman RE, Kisslo J. Correlation of Adenosine Echocardiography, Thallium Scintigraphy and Coronary Angiography. American Heart Journal 1993; 125:1606-13.

Heinle SK, Lieberman EB, Ancukiewicz M, Waugh RA, Bashore TM, Kisslo J. Usefulness of Dobutamine Echocardiography for Detecting Restenosis After Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. American Journal of Cardiology 1993; 72:1220-1225.

Heinle SK, Waugh RA. What is the Incremental Value of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Assessing the Patients with Possible Endocarditis? Choices in Cardiology, Parisi AE (ed) 1994; 8:64-66.

Heinle S, Wildermann N, Harrison JK, Waugh R, Bashore T, Nicely LM, Durack  D, Kisslo J, and the Duke Endocarditis Service. Value of Transthoracic Echocardiography in Predicting Embolic Events in Active Infective Endocarditis. American Journal of Cardiology 1994; 74:799-801.

Tice FD, Heinle SK, Harrison JK, Bashore TM, Lieberman EB, Wilson JS, Kisslo KB, Kisslo J. Transesophageal Echocardiographic Assessment of Pulmonary Venous Flow in Mitral Stenosis: Incidence and Significance of Systolic Flow Reversal. American Journal of Cardiology 1995; 75:58-60.

Heinle SK, Tice FD, Kisslo J. The Effect of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography on Mitral Regurgitation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1995; 25:122-127.

Lieberman EB, Heinle SK, Ancukiewicz M, Myers S, Kisslo JA, Bashore TM. Does Hypotension During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography Have Anatomic or Functional Significance? American Heart Journal 1995; 129:1121-1126.

Heinle SK, Kisslo J. The Clinical Utility of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Patients with Left-Sided Infective Endocarditis. American Journal of Cardiac Imaging 1995; 9:199-202.

Heinle SK, Tice FD, Kisslo J. Hypotension During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography: Is It Related to Dynamic Intraventricular Obstruction?  American Heart Journal 1995; 130:314-317.

MacKenzie S, Heinle SK: Echocardiography and Doppler Assessment of  Prosthetic Heart Valves with Transesophageal Echocardiography. Critical Care Clinics of North America 1996; 12:383-409. 

Conlon PJ, Walshe J, Heinle SK, Minda S, Schwab SJ. Pre-Dialysis Systolic Blood Pressure Predicts Mean Day Time Systolic Blood Pressure and Left Ventricular Mass in Stable Hemodialysis Patients. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 1996; 7:2658-2663.

Lee VS, Spritzer CE, Carroll BA, Pool LK, Bernstein MA, Heinle SK, MacFall JR. Flow Quantification Using Phase Contrast MR imaging, Fast Phase Contrast MR imaging, and Doppler Ultrasonography: In Vitro and In Vivo Validation. American Journal of Roentgenology 1997; 169:125-131.

Heinle SK, Hall SA, Brickner ME, Willett DL, Grayburn PA. Comparison of Vena Contracta Width by Multiplane Transesophageal Echocardiography with Quantitative Pulse-Doppler Method for the Assessment of Mitral Regurgitation. American Journal of Cardiology 1998; 81:175-179.

Kizilbash AM, Heinle SK, Grayburn PA. Spontaneous Variability of Left  Ventricular Outflow Tract Gradient in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy.  Circulation 1998; 97:461-466.

Heinle SK, Noblin J, Goree-Best P, Mello A, Ravad G, Mull S, Mammen P, Grayburn PA. Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion by Harmonic Power Doppler Imaging at Rest and During Adenosine Stress. Comparison with  99mTc-Sestamibi SPECT Imaging.     Circulation 2000; 102:55-60.

 

BOOK CHAPTER:

Heinle, SK.  New Approaches to Quantitation of Valvular Regurgitation in The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, Edited by Catherine Otto, Second Edition, W.B. Saunders/ Harcourt Health Sciences, Phila. PA, 2002.

 

ABSTRACTS AND SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS:

Kim SA, Durack DT, Bashore TM, Waugh RA, Kisslo JA:  Can the               Echocardiographer Effectively Predict the Risk of Embolization During Infective Endocarditis?  64th Scientific Session of the American Heart Association, Anaheim, California, 1991.

Kim S, Hanson M, Coleman RE, Gracey L, Kisslo J:  Correlation of Adenosine Echocardiography, Thallium Scintigraphy, and Coronary Angiography.  41st Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Dallas, Texas, 1992.

MacKenzie S, Clements F, Schell R, Heinle S, Longabaugh P:  Mitral Prosthetic Paravalvular Regurgitation in the Immediate Post Cardiopulmonary Bypass Period. 14th Annual Meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesia, Boston, Massachusetts, 1992.     

MacKenzie S, Heinle SK, Longabaugh JP, Nicely M, Unks, DM, Kisslo J: Biplane Transesophageal Echocardiography: Does the Second Plane Make A Difference?  65th Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1992.

Heinle SK, Tice FD, Keeler G, Toptine JH, Borges-Neto S, Hanson MW, Coleman RE, Kisslo JA: Correlation of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography and Dobutamine Technetium-99m Sestamibi.  42nd Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Anaheim, CA, 1993.

Lieberman EB, Heinle SK, Pieper KS, Wildermann N, Waugh RA, Kisslo JA, Bashore TM: Does Hypotension During Dobutamine Stress  Echocardiography Correlate with Anatomic or Functional Cardiac Impairment?  42nd Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Anaheim, CA, 1993.

Tice FD, Heinle SK, Harrison JK, Bashore TM, Lieberman EB, Kisslo KB, Kisslo J: Systolic Reversal of Pulmonary Venous Flow: Is It Meaningful in Mitral Stenosis? 42nd Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Anaheim, CA, 1993.

Tice FD, Heinle SK, MacKenzie GS, Nicely LM, DeBruijn NP, Clements FM, Kisslo J: Incidence of Aortic Prosthesis Paravalvular Regurgitation in the Immediate Postoperative Period.  Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Echocardiography, Orlando, FLA, 1993.

Heinle SK, Tice FD, Strub MJ, Kisslo J:  The Effect of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography on Mitral Regurgitation.  66th Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, Atlanta, GA, 1993.

Tice FD, Heinle SK, Lukes AS, Nicely LM, Durack DT, Kisslo J, Duke Endocarditis Service:  Are Serial Echocardiograms Useful in Patients with Infective Endocarditis?  66th Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, Atlanta, GA, 1993.

Heinle SK, Tice FT, Kisslo J: Left Ventricular Outflow Obstruction and Hypotensive Response During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography: Is There a Relationship?  43rd Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Atlanta GA, 1994.

Tice FD, Wilson JS, Harrison JK, Hearne SE, Heinle SK, Kisslo KB, Kisslo J, Rigolin VH, Robiolio PA, Lieberman EB, Bashore TM:  Is There a Role for Routine Transesophageal Echocardiography Prior to Balloon Mitral Commissurotomy?  67th Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, Dallas, TX, 1994.

Ota T, Heinle SK, Evans W, Higgenbotham M, Kisslo J:  Echocardiographic Cardiac Rejection Surveillance Using Acoustic Densitometry of Two Dimensional  Ultrasound Backscatter Imaging: Multiple Views and Regions of Interest.  44th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, New Orleans, LA, 1995.

Roe MT, Abramson M, Sexton DJ, Li J, Corey GR, Heinle SK, Kisslo J: Positive and Negative Effects of Transesophageal Echocardiography on the Duke Criteria for Infective Endocarditis. 45th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Orlando, FLA, 1996.

Boley J, einleH      Heinle SK, Kisslo J: Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography: Influence of  Gender on Test Accuracy.  45th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Orlando, FLA, 1996.

Kesler KL, Shaw LJ, Heinle SK, Borges-Neto S, Coleman RE, Jones RH for the Duke Noninvasive Research Working Group: Prognosis in Patients With  Coronary Artery Disease by Equilibrium Radionuclide Measurements of Left Ventricular Function During Exercise.  45th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Orlando, FLA, 1996.

Kizilbash AM, Heinle SK, Grayburn PA. Spontaneous Variability of Left  Ventricular Outflow Tract Gradient in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. 8th Annual Scientific Session of the American Society of Echocardiography, Orlando FLA, 1997.

Heinle SK, Noblin J, Goree-Best P, Mello A, Ravad G, Mull S, Mammen P, Grayburn PA. Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion by Harmonic Power Doppler Imaging at Rest and During Adenosine Stress. Comparison with  99mTc-Sestamibi SPECT Imaging.  49th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Anaheim, CA,  2000

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