Biosketch

Dr. Dorothea McAreavey is a cardiologist and intensivist with the Critical Care Medicine Department and also serves as Program Director for the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program. She provides nuclear cardiology services with the Nuclear Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center. Other appointments include attending cardiologist at the Coronary Care Unit at the Washington Hospital Center, and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

She completed her undergraduate and medical degrees at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She joined NIH in 1991 as a visiting scientist and later as a senior staff fellow in the Cardiology Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. In 1998, she joined the CC Critical Care Medicine Department as a fellow and was appointed to her current position in 2001.

Honors and Awards

NIH Clinical Center Director's Award, 2006; NIH Merit Award, 2005; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow, Scotland, 1995; Fellow, American College of Cardiology, 1998.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Atiga WL, Fananapazir L, McAreavey D, Calkins H, Berger RD. Temporal repolarization lability in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by beta-myosin heavy chain gene mutations. Circulation 2000;101:1237-42.

Vanhuyzen GD, Singh SN, McAreavey D, Shelton BN, Exner DV. Prior coronary artery bypass surgery and risk of death among patients with ischemic left ventricular dysfunction. Circulation. 2001;104:1489-93.

Ivanov SV, Ward JM, Tessarollo L, McAreavey D, Sachdev V, Fananapazir L, Banks MK, Morris N, Djurickovic D, Devor-Henneman, Wei M-H, Avord GW, Gao B, Richardson JA, Minna JD, Rogawski MA, Lerman MI. Cerebellar Ataxia, Seizures, Premature Death, and Cardiac Abnormalities in Mice with Targeted Disruption of the Cacna2d2 Gene. Am J Pathol 2004;165:1007-18.

Ueda M, O'Brien K, Rosing DR, Ling A, Kleta R, McAreavey D, Bernardini I, Gahl WA. Coronary artery and other vascular calcifications in cystinosis patients after kidney transplantation. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2006;1: 555-562.

Arena R, Owens DS, Arevalo J, Smith K, Mohiddin SA, McAreavey D, Ulisney K, Tripodi D, Fananapazir L, Plehn JF. The relationship between exercise ventilatory efficiency and resting hemodynamics in non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 2008;40(5):799-805.

Polkampally PR, Matta JR, McAreavey D, Bakalov V, Bondy CA, Gharib AM. Aneurysmal dilatation of medium caliber arteries in Turner syndrome. Congenit Heart Dis. 2011 Jul-Aug;6(4):382-3.

Berrington de Gonzalez A, Kim K-P, Smith-Bindman R, McAreavey D. Myocardial perfusion scans: projected population cancer risks from current levels of use in the U.S. Circulation,2010, 122(23):2403-10.

McAreavey D, Vidal JS, Aspelund T, Owens DS, Hughes T, Garcia M, Sigurdsson S, Bjornsdottir H, Harris TB, Gudnason V, Launer LJ, Plehn JF. Correlation of Echocardiographic Findings with Cerebral Infarction in Elderly Adults: The AGES-Reykjavik Study. Stroke 2010; 41:2223-8.

Morrow DA, Fang JC, Fintel DJ, Granger CB, Katz JN, Kushner FG, Kuvin JT, Lopez-Sendon J, McAreavey D, Nallamothu B, Page II RL, Parrillo JE, Peterson PN, Winkelman C, on behalf of the American Heart Association Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation; and the Council on Clinical Cardiology. Evolution of Critical Care Cardiology: Transformation of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Emerging Need for New Staffing and Training Models. Circulation. 2012 Sep 11;126(11):1408-1428.