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Erik Sirulnick

37, physician scientist, Practicing cardiologist in Las Vegas, Nevada. Interested in designing solutions for physicians

Headline: Scientist
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Interested in: Consulting opportunities, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities
Tags: cardiovascular, Medical Devices

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Cardiovascular Consultants of Nevada
Position: Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Time period: August 2005 - Present

Employer: Cardiac Electrophysiology, Stanford University
Position: Fellow
Time period: July 2004 - June 2005

Employer: Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Time period: July 2003 - June 2004

Employer: Dept of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University
Position: Research experience
Time period: July 2002 - June 2004
Description: Interplay between Voltage and Calcium in Potassium Channel Gating.
Sponsor: Richard W. Aldrich, PhD
Funded by AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship7/03-6/04 #0325197Y

Employer: Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University
Position: Fellow
Time period: July 2000 - June 2003

Employer: Internal Medicine Residency Program, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Position: Resident
Time period: July 1998 - June 2000

Employer: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
Position: Research experience
Time period: January 1998 - December 2000
Description: Physiologic Mechanisms of the HERG Potassium Channel
Sponsor: Thomas V. McDonald, MD
Concurrent with Internal Medicine Residency

Employer: Internal Medicine Residency Program, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Position: Intern
Time period: July 1997 - June 1998

Employer: Montefiore Medical Center, NY
Position: Research experience
Time period: January 1997 - December 2000
Description: Effective Management of Patients with Implantable Defibrillators.
Sponsors: Jay N. Gross, MD and Kevin J. Ferrick, MD
Concurrent with Internal Medicine Residency

Employer: Brown University, Providence, RI
Position: Research experience
Time period: January 1991 - December 1995
Description: Humoral Mechanisms of Immunological Privilege in the CNS.
Sponsors: Helen F. Cserr, PhD and Paul M. Knopf, PhD

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: - Sirulnick E, Tsiperfal A, Wang PJ, and Al-Ahmad A: Delivery of Antitachycardia Pacing after a Full-energy Shock during the same Ventricular Tachycardia Episode: Appropriate Device Function? Heart Rhythm 2(11): 1266-1267, 2005.
- Knopf PM, Harling-Berg CJ, Cserr HF, Basu D, Sirulnick EJ, Nolan SC, Park JT, Keir G, Thompson EJ, and Hickey WF: Antigen-dependent Intrathecal Antibody Synthesis in the Normal Rat Brain: Tissue Entry and Local Retention of Antigen-Specific B Cells. Journal of Immunology 161(2):692-701, 1998.
- Basu D, Sirulnick EJ, Nolan S, Cserr HF, Kier G, Thompson EJ, and Hickey WF: B-cell Traffic and Intrathecal Antibody Synthesis in the Normal Brain (Abstract). FASEB Journal 8: A248, 1994.
- Sirulnick EJ, Weiner S, Gross JN, Kim SG, Fisher JD, Ferrick KJ. Limited Yield of Adjunctive Testing in Patients with ICD Shocks (Poster). Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias Venice, Italy: 5-8 October 1999.
- Weiner S, Sirulnick E, Furman S, Fisher J, Kim S, Ferrick K, Zweibel S, Gross J. Pursuit of a Moving Target: Analysis of Changing ICD Therapy and Patient Demographics 1986-1998 (Abstract). EuroPACE 1:A26, 2000.
- Sirulnick EJ, Aldrich RW: Interplay between Voltage and Calcium in Potassium Channel Gating (Abstract in submission)
Books: - Sirulnick ES and Liem LB, “Direct Current Cardioversion” and “Implantation of Cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD).” Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures, Third Edition, ed. Jaffe RA and Samuels SI, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 1162-1168 (2004).
- Sirulnick ES and Wang PJ, “New ICD Indications.” New Arrhythmia Technologies, ed. Wang PJ. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, pp. 219-232 (2005).

INFORMATION

Memberships: - 11/01-present Member, Cardiac Electrophysiology Society
- 2005-present Member, American College of Cardiology
- 7/01-present Member, ACP-ASIM
- 6/93-present Member, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Awards: - 9/07 Fellow, American College of Cardiology (FACC)
- 6/00 Leo M. Davidoff Society Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Medical Students (Highest Honor awarded at the Internal Medicine Residency Graduation Ceremony, Albert Einstein College of Medicine).
- 6/02 NIH/NHLBI Training Grant in Vascular Medicine and Biology

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