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

Recent Lectures (Selected)

Visiting Professor, Division of Cardiology, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA Grand Rounds topic “Lowering cholesterol in atherosclerosis 2005” April 13, 2005 

Visiting Professor, Max Heart & Vascular Institute, New Delhi, India, April 27, 2005 Lectures on: “Genes and genetics in heart disease” and “New diagnostic strategies in the diagnosis of coronary atherosclerosis”.

Visiting Professor, Texas A & M University, Department of Medical Physiology, College Station, TX. Lecture on: “LOX-1: A novel oxidized LDL receptor- identification, regulation and functional role in atherosclerosis”. May 18-20, 2005.

Visiting Professor, Division of Cardiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN Grand Rounds topic “Biology of LOX-1, a novel receptor for ox-LDL” June 7, 2005.

Visiting Professor, Division of Cardiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN Grand Rounds topic “Fibroblast- an important player in heart failure” June 23, 2005.

Invited speaker at the 12^th World Congress on Heart Disease, Vancouver, Canada, Topic “Successful gene therapy against atherosclerosis by rAAV delivery of IL-10”, July 16-19, 2005.

Invited speaker at the 20^th Dominican Congress on Cardiology, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, topic “Cross-talk between renin angiotensin System Dyslipidemia and CAD” and “The world of statins in 2005”, August 4-6, 2005.

Invited speaker at the 1^st Scientific Meeting of the Asian Society for Vascular Biology, Shanghai, China, topic “Successful gene therapy against atherosclerosis by rAAV delivery of IL-10”, October 8-10, 2005.

Invited speaker at the annual meeting of the Italian Society of Cardiology, Rome, Italy, topic “Biology of stents”, December 12, 2005.

Visiting Professor, Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Grand Rounds topic “Fibroblast- an important player in heart failure” June 23, 2005.

Invited speaker, Southern Society for Clinical Investigation annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, topic “Oxidative stress in atherosclerosis”, March 24, 2006  

Chair, Session on Vascular Biology, Southern Society for Clinical Investigation annual meeting, Atlanta, GA March 24, 2006  

Visiting Professor, Division of Cardiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, The 2006 TJ Tsagris lectureship  “Oxidative Stress in Atherosclerosis” April 20, 2006

Editorial Boards  (Selected)

Circulation, Hypertension, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, and among others

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

            Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare                                                     2006-2007

            Listed among America’s top Doctors                                                          2006