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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

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

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

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

McAreavey D, Fananapazir, L. Altered cardiac hemodynamic and electrical state in normal sinus rhythm following chronic dual chamber pacing for relief of left ventricular outflow obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol 1992;70:651-656

McAreavey D, Fananapazir, L. Treatment of incessant ventricular tachycardia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with improvement of severe left ventricular dysfunction. Pace 1992;15:1642-1645