Biosketch

Dr. Michael Solomon is a senior staff member in both the Critical Care Medicine Department of the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center and the Cardiology Branch of NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He is also a member of the medical staffs of the Washington Hospital Center and 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 for a fellowship in cardiology from 1991 to 1994 and was a member of their cardiology faculty, specializing in caring for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and those undergoing heart transplantation, from 1994 to 2000 before returning to NIH.

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

NIH Bench-to-Bedside Award, 2004

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Solomon MA, Correa R, Alexander RH, Koev LA, Cobb JP, Kim DK, Roberts WC, Quezado ZMN, Scholz TD, Cunnion RE, Hoffman WD, Bacher J, Yatsiv I, Danner RL, Banks SM, Ferrans VJ, Balaban RS, Natanson C. Myocardial energy metabolism and morphology in a canine model of sepsis. Am. J. Physiol. 266 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 35) H757-768, 1994

Solomon MA, Jeffrey FMH, Storey CJ, Sherry AD, and Malloy CR. Substrate selection early after reperfusion of ischemic regions in the working rabbit heart. Mag. Res. Med. 35:820-826, 1996

Meler JD, Solomon MA, Steele JR, Yancy CW Jr, Parkey RW, and Fleckenstein JL. The MR appearance of volume overload in the lower extremities. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 21(6):969-73, 1997 Nov-Dec

Jones JG, Solomon MA, Sherry AD, Jeffrey FMH, and Malloy CR. Measurement of gluconeogenesis following ingestion of [U-13C] propionate, phenylacetate, and acetaminophen: A 13C NMR analysis of hexose and phenylacetylglutamine isotopomers. Am. J. Physiol. (Endocrinol. Metab.) 275(38): E843-852, 1998

Drazner MH, Solomon MA, Thompson B, and Yancy CW. Tailored therapy using dobutamine and nitroglycerin in advanced heart failure. Am. J. Cardiol. 84:941-943, 1999

Jones JG, Solomon MA, Cole SM, Sherry AD, and Malloy CR. An integrated (2)H and (13)C NMR study of gluconeogenesis and TCA cycle flux in humans. Am. J. Physiol. (Endocrinol. Metab.) 281(4):E848-56, 2001

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

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