Dr. Lameh Fananapazir received his medical training at Edinburgh University, in Scotland. He served as a house surgeon and physician at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, and continued his training in internal medicine and in cardiology at several hospitals in the U.K. He spent 4 years as senior registrar in cardiology at the Royal Infirmary before coming to the U.S. as visiting fellow in electrophysiology at Duke.
In 1987, Dr. Fananapazir joined the Cardiology Branch of NHLBI as senior investigator and director of the Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory.
Dr. Fananapazir's research focuses on clinical cardiac physiology, in
particular hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He has implanted over 1000 permanent
pacemakers, and has performed several thousand cardiac catheterizations.
Dr. Daniel Fedorko is a senior staff member of the Clinical Center's Clinical Pathology Department. Dr. Fedorko earned a master's degree and a doctorate in pathology, with a specialty in clinical microbiology, at the Medical College of Virginia. During that time, he worked there as a medical laboratory technician in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory.
After 2 years of postdoctoral training in clinical and public health microbiology at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Fedorko joined the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan, as clinical microbiologist. He came to NIH in 1993, and has been with the Clinical Pathology Department ever since.
Dr. Fedorko's work involves the detection of microsporidia in patient specimens. He has begun studies of survival of microsporidia in the environment and after exposure to disinfectants.
He has also been evaluating assays for faster, more sensitive detection
of Clostridium difficile in stool specimens.
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