Kathleen Stergiopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., FASE, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Noninvasive Cardiology
Director, Cardiology Consultation Service

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
SUNY-Stony Brook
Health Sciences Center T16-080
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Phone: 631-444-1066
Fax: 631-444-1054

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• B.A. (cum laude, with High Honors in Chemistry), Smith College, Northamptom, MA, 1994
• Ph.D. (with distinction), SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, 2000
• M.D., SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, 2000
• Intern and Resident, Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, 2000-2003
• Fellow, Cardiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, 2003-2006

BOARD CERTIFICATION

• American Board of Internal Medicine, 2003
• Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Board Certification, 2006
• National Board of Echocardiography, Successful Completion of the Examination of Special Competency in Adult Echocardiography, 2006
• National Board of Echocardiography, Comprehensive Certification, 2006
• Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology, 2006
• Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography, 2007
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, 2008

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

• Cardiology Consultation
  
• Pregnancy and Cardiovascular Disease
  
• Women’s Cardiovascular Services
  
• Echocardiography
  
• Nuclear Cardiology

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Cambridge Who’s Who, Honored Member, 2007
• Guide to America’s Top Cardiologists, 2006
  
• John Bernard Henry M.D. Endowed Scholarship Award, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, 2000
• Alpha Omega Alpha Research Award, First Prize, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, 1997
  
• Stergiopoulos K, Seifert F, Brown DL. Thrombus Can Form After Successful Stapler Exclusion of the Left Atrial Appendage. (Images) Journal of the American College of Cardiology In press 2009
  
• Vasu S, Stergiopoulos K. Valvular heart disease in pregnancy. (Review article) Hellenic Journal of Cardiology. In press. 2009
• Robert L. McNamara, MD, MHS, Farid Jadbabaie, MD, and Kathleen Stergiopoulos, MD, PhD. Echocardiography. Cardiovascular Imaging Book. Eds Yi-Hwa Liu, PhD and Frans J. Th. Wackers, MD, PhD. In press, 2009.
• Stergiopoulos K, Mathews R, Setaro JF, Brennan JJ. Anabolic Steroids, Acute Myocardial Infarction, and Polycythemia - A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Vascular Health and Risk Management. 2008:4(6);1475-1480.
• Stergiopoulos K, Kort S. Exercise hemodynamics in mitral stenosis. eClips. American Society of Echocardiography. In press, 2009.
  
• Wu S, Stergiopoulos K, Zhu X. Risk of hypertension and renal dysfunction with an angiogenesis inhibitor sunitinib: systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Oncologica, 2008;Aug 27:1-9.
  
• Ahmed F, Salhab K, Stergiopoulos K, Seifert F, Baram D. Intramural hematoma of the aorta: delayed pericardial tamponade. Thorac Cardiov Surg 2008; 56:1-3.
  
• Stergiopoulos K. Raynaud's disease. In: Diseases and Disorders. Eds. Anne Hildyard and Jolyon Goddard. Vol 3, p 710 Marshall Cavendish: Tarry Town, New York. 2008.
• Delmar M, Morley GE, Ek-Vitorin JF, Francis D, Homma N, Stergiopoulos K, Lau A, and Taffet SM. Intracellular regulation of the cardiac gap junction channel connexin43. In: Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside. D.P. Zipes and J. Jalife, eds. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA, 2000: pp126-132.
  
• Delmar M, Stergiopoulos K, Homma N, Calero G, Morley G, Ek-Vitorin JF, Taffet SM. A molecular model for the chemical regulation of connexin43 channels: The “ball-and-chain” hypothesis. In: Current Topics in Membranes, Volume 49. C. Peracchia, ed. Academic Press, San Diego, CA: 2000,
• Stergiopoulos K, Alvarado JL, Mastroianni M, Ek-Vitorin JF, Taffet SM, Delmar M. Hetero-domain interactions as a mechanism for the regulation of connexin channels. Circulation Research 1999; 84:1144-1155.
  
• Francis D, Stergiopoulos K, Ek-Vitorin JF, Cao FL, Taffet SM, Delmar M. Connexin diversity and gap junction regulation by pHi. Developmental Genetics 1999; 24:123-136.
  
• Homma N, Alvarado JL, Coombs W, Stergiopoulos K, Taffet SM, Lau AF, Delmar M. A particle-receptor model for the insulin-induced closure of connexin43 channels. Circulation Research 1998; 83:27-32.
• Delmar M, Stergiopoulos K, Homma N, Ek-Vitorin JF, and Taffet SM. A ball-and-chain model for chemical regulation of connexin43. In: Gap Junctions. ed R. Werner, ISO Press, 1998, pp8-12.
• Yin H, El-Sherif N, Caref EB, Ndrepepa G, Levin R, Isber N, Stergiopoulos K, Assadi MA, Gough WB, Restivo M. Actions of lidocaine on reentrant ventricular rhythms in the subacute myocardial infarction period in dogs. American Journal of Physiology 1997: 272;H299-H309.
• Boutjdir M, Restivo M, Wei Y, Stergiopoulos K, El-Sherif N. Early afterdepolarization formation in cardiac myocytes: Analysis of phase plane patterns, action potential, and membrane currents. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 1994: 5;609-620.