Stebbins Chair in Cardiology

Professor of Internal Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics

Member, Graduate Faculty UAMS

Associate Director, Gene Therapy Program

 Education

MD, Punjab University, India, 1969
PhD, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 1989 

Training

Residency, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, 1973

Cardiology Fellowship, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1975

Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1976

Patents

US Patent #4790988 “Method and compositions for the treatment of thrombotic episodes”

Washington, DC, December 13, 1988.

US Patent “Reduction in Myocardial Reperfusion Injury by the Elastase Inhibitor ICI 200, 880”,1992.

US Patent "Detection of Myocardial Infarcts by Monocyte-Platelet Conjugates on Flow-cytometry", 1993.

US Patent #20040225346  “A new endothelial coated stent for arteries, 11/11/04.

US Patent #D6473 “Use of Statins in the Prevention and Treatment of Radiation Injury and Other

 Disorders Associated with Reduced Endothelial Thrombomodulin”, 2004.

US Patent “Human papillomavirus (HPV) helper functions for adeno-associated virus (AAV) Replication”, 2004.

Clinical/Research Interests

Acute cardiac care; molecular biology of angiotensin and ox-LDL receptors in myocardial ischemia and atherosclerosis; Inter-regulatory role of platelets, endothelium and leukocytes in CAD.

  Who’s Who Listings

Listed in Who's Who in America, 1980-present

Listed in Who's Who Medicine and Healthcare, 1995-present

Listed in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20^th Century, 1999

Listed in Strathomore’s Millennium Edition of WHO’S WHO,  2000-present

Listed in Who's Who in the World, 2003-present

 Listed in International Who’s Who of Professionals, 2003-present

Listed in Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 2006-2007

Listed among America’s top Doctors, 2006