Jie Jane Cao, MD, MPH, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Department
DeMatteis Center
St. Francis Hospital
100 Port Washington Blvd.
Roslyn, NY 11576
Phone: (516) 622-4552
Fax: (516) 622-4551

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• M.D., Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China, 1987
• M.A., Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1990
• M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 2000
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (laboratory of Dr. Jeffrey Sklar), 1994-1995
• Intern and Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 1995-1998.
• Fellow, Cardiology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 1998-2001.
• Clinical Fellow/Senior Research Investigator, Labortory of Cardiac Energetics, National heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2004-2006.

BOARD CERTIFICATION

• American Board of Internal Medicine, 1998
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Subspecialty of Cardiovascular Disease, 2001

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

• Cardiac MRI
• Cardiac CT

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Utilization of cardiac MR and CT
• Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Sandra Daugherty Award for the Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension Epidemiology, American Heart Association Epidemiology Council Scientific Session, 2002
• J. Cao , P. Savage, M. Brochu, P. Ades. Evolution of lipid lowering therapy at cardiac rehabilitation entry, JCR 2002, 22 (2):80-4
• J. Cao, C. Thach, P. Chaves, K. Sutton-Tyrrell, T. Manolio, D. Gerrington, J. Polak, L. Kuller, B. Psaty, M. Cushman. C-reactive protein, carotid intima-media thickness and risk of ischemic stroke in the elderly. Circulation 2003, 108:166-70
• EG Nabel, HP Selker, RM Califf, JG Canto, J Cao, P Desvigne-Nikkens, RL Goldberg, JR Finnegan, V Vaccarino, R Virmani. Women’s Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation: current status and future research directions. Reports of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute workshop October 2-4, 2002. Section 3 diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Cardiac Ischemia: gender issues. Circulation: 2004, 109:e50-e52
• J. Barzilay, D. Peterson, M. Cushman, S. Heckbert. J. Cao, C. Blaum, R. Tracy, R. Klein and D. Herrington. The relationship of cardiovascular risk factors to microalbuminuria in older adults with or without diabetes mellitus or hypertension: The Cardiovascular Health Study. AJKD 2004 Jul: 44(1):25-34
• C Brawner, J Ehrman, J Cao, J Schairer, S Keteyian. Predicting maximum heart rate among patients with coronary heart disease receiving beta-adrenergic blockade therapy. 2004, Am Heart J 2004 Nov;148 (5) 910-4
• Ketterer MW, Denollet J, Chapp J, Keteyian S, Farha AJ, Clark V, Hudson, M, Hakim A, Greenbaum A, Schairer J & Cao J. Familial transmissability of early age at initial diagnosis in coronary heart disease: males only, and mediated by psychosocial/emotional distress? 2004, Journal of Behavioral Medicine J Behav Med. 2004 Feb;27(1):1-10.  
• M. Ketterer, G. Mahr, J. Cao, M. Hudson and S. Smith, What’s “unstable” in unstable angina? Psychosomatics. 2004 May-Jun;45(3):185-96.
• J. Cao, D. Peterson, B. J. Barzilay, Psaty, L. Kuller, T. Monolio, J. Wexler, A. Bleyer and M. Cushman . The association of microalbuminuria with prevalent clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease in the elderly, a Cardiovascular Health Study, Atherosclerosis 2005 (in press)
• J. Cao, M. Hudson, M. Jankowski, F. Whitehouse, D. Weaver. Relation of Acute And Chronic Glycemic Control On Mortality In Acute Myocardial Infarction With Diabetes Mellitus. AJC 2005;96:183-86
• J Cao , AM Arnold, TA Manolio, BM Psaty, CH Hirsch, JF Polak, LH Kuller and M Cushman. Carotid Atherosclerosis Quality and Quantity, C-reactive protein and Future Cardiovascular Disease: The Cardiovascular Health Study (manuscript in preparation)
• J. Cao, M. Biggs, B. J. Barzilay, Psaty, L. Kuller, T. Monolio, J. Wexler, A. Bleyer and M. Cushman . Microalbuminuria and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and All-cause Mortality in the Elderly, The Cardiovascular Health Study (manuscript in preparation)