Biosketch

Dr. Michael Solomon heads the Cardiology Section of the Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is a senior staff member of both the Critical Care Medicine Department of the NIH's Clinical Center and the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch of NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Other appointments include attending cardiologist at the Coronary Care Unit of the Washington Hospital Center and a member of the medical staff of Inova Fairfax Hospital.

He completed his undergraduate degree at Brown University and his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. After a residency at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, he came to NIH for a fellowship in the Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department. He returned to UT Southwestern Medical Center to complete a fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases (1991 to 1994). Subsequently, he joined the cardiology faculty of UT Southwestern specializing in caring for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and heart transplantation. He returned to NIH in 2000, receiving a joint appointment in both the Critical Care Medicine Department, CC, and the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, NHLBI.

Dr. Solomon serves on the NIH Code Committee, Board of Tutors for the NIH Medical Research Scholars Program, and as the course coordinator for the Critical Care Medicine fourth year medical student clinical elective and Clinical Simulation Service.

Dr. Solomon's research focuses on (1) endothelial cell dysfunction in pulmonary arterial hypertension, (2) acute cardiac allograft cellular rejection, and (3) transplant coronary vasculopathy.

Honors and Awards

Board member, Allied Health Professionals Committee, American College of Cardiology (2001-2003); Board member, Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions (2001 – 2011); Councilor, Maryland Chapter, American College of Cardiology (2002-2005); Principal Clinical Investigator, NIH Bedside-to-Bench Award (2004 and 2011); Secretary, Maryland Chapter, American College of Cardiology (2006-2011); Chairperson, steering committee for the Capital Cardiology Symposium and Scientific Exchange (2009 -2011); Activity Director, ACC Mid-Atlantic Capital Cardiology Symposium (2012); ACC Board of Governors, PHS Governor (2011-2012).

Selected Publications

BOOK/BOOK CHAPTERS

Susla GM, Suffredini AF, Mcareavey D, Solomon MA, Hoffman WD, Nyquist P, Ognibene FP, Shelhamer JH, and Masur H. The Handbook of Critical Care Drug Therapy 3rd ed, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA. 2006.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Khan SS, Solomon MA, and McCoy JP. Detection of circulating endothelial cells and endothelial progenitor cells by flow cytometry. Clinical Cytometry. 64B (1):1-8, 2005

Elshal MF, Khan SS, Takahashi Y, Solomon MA, and McCoy JP. CD 146 (Mel-CAM), an adhesion marker of endothelial cells, is a novel marker of lymphocyte subset activation in normal peripheral blood. Blood. 106(8):2923-2924, 2005.

Raghavachari N, Xu X, Harris A, Villagra J, Logun C, Barb J, Solomon MA, Suffredini AF, Danner RL, Kato G, Munson PJ, Morris SM, and Gladwin MT Amplified expression profiling of platelet transcriptome reveals changes in arginine metabolic pathways in patients with sickle cell disease. Circulation. 115:1551-1562, 2007.

Minneci PC, Deans KJ, Hansen B, Parent C, Romines C, Gonzales DA, Ying SX, Munson P, Suffredini AF, Feng J, Solomon MA, Banks SM, Kern SJ, Danner RL, Eichacker PQ, Natanson C, and Solomon SB. A canine model of septic shock: balancing animal welfare and scientific relevance. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 293(4):H2487-2500, 2007.

Elshal MF, Khan SS, Raghavachari N, Takahashi Y, Barb J, Bailey JJ, Munson PJ, Solomon MA, Danner RL, McCoy JP. A unique population of effector memory lymphocytes identified by CD146 having a distinct immunophenotypic and genomic profile. BMC Immunology 8:29, 2007.

Desai, A, Glaser, A, Liu, D, Raghavachari, N, Blum, A, Zalos, G, Lippincott, M, McCoy, JP, Munson, PJ, Solomon, MA, Danner, RL, Cannon, RO. Microarray-based characterization of a colony assay used to investigate endothelial progenitor cells and relevance to endothelial function in humans. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 29, 121-127, 2009.

Solomon SB, Minneci PC, Deans KJ, Feng J, Eichacker PQ, Banks SM, Danner RL, Natanson C, Solomon MA. Effects of Intra-aortic Balloon Counterpulsation in a Model of Septic Shock. Critical Care Medicine 37(1):7-18, 2009.

Deans KJ, Minneci PC, Chen H, Kern SJ, Logun C, Alsaaty S, Norsworthy KJ, Theel SM, Sennesh JD, Barb JJ, Munson PJ, Danner RL, Solomon MA. Impact of animal strain on gene expression in a rat model of acute cardiac rejection. BMC Genomics 10: 280, 2009.

Amarnath S, Chen H, Foley JE, Costanzo CM, Sennesh JD, Solomon MA, and Fowler DH. Host-based Th2 Cell Therapy for Prolongation of Cardiac Allograft Viability. PloS ONE, 6(4): e18885, 2011.

Rame JE, Barouch LA, Sack MN, Lynn EG, Abu-Asab M, Tsokos M, Kern SJ, Barb JJ, Munson PJ, Halushka MK, Miller KL, Fox-Talbot K, Zhang J, Hare JM, Solomon MA, and Danner RL. Caloric restriction in leptin deficiency does not correct myocardial steatosis: Failure to normalize PPAR α/PGC1 α and Thermogenic Glyecrolipid/Fatty Acid Cycling. Physiologic Genomics, 43(12):726-38, 2011.