PDF of Dr. Vinten-Johansen's CV

Academic Appointment

• Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Research Appointment

• Director, Cardiothoracic Research Laboratory, Carlyle Fraser Heart Center, Emory University Hospital Midtown

Secondary Appointment

• Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Emory

Telephone
404.686.2511

Education

• MS (received 1975) and PhD in Physiology (received 1978), Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey
• Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Thoracic Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, 1978-1983, Mentor: Gerald D. Buckberg, MD

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• Associate Editor, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• Editorial Board Member, American Journal of Physiology–Heart and Circulatory Physiology
• Editorial Board, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
• Editorial Board, Cardiovascular Research
  

Current Organizational Memberships

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Heart Association: Basic Science Council, Circulation Council, Cardiovascular Surgery Council
• International Society for Heart Research
• American Physiological Society
• American College of Angiology, Fellow
• New York Academy of Sciences
• Academy of Surgical Research
• Cardiothoracic Surgical Biology Club
• The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Honors and Awards

• Distinguished Reviewer, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Research, 2005
• Honored Member, Strathmore's Who's Who, 2002-2003 Edition
• Distinguished Reviewer, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Research, 2002
• Fellow, American Heart Association Council on Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, 2002
• Scientific Review Committee, Special Emphasis
• Panel Bioengineering Research Partnership Applications, NIH, July 2002
• Fellow, American Heart Association Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, 2001
• Nominee for the Basic Scientist of the Year Award, Council on Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery of the American Heath Association, 2000
• Ad Hoc Member, NIH IRB group for Surgery, Anesthesia and Trauma, 1998

Research Interests

• Mechanisms and treatment of surgical and non-surgical myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
1996

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