Education

Research Publications

Frequently, CMMC staff serve as contributing authors and guest speakers to the scientific community; results of their process improvement efforts as well as research is published in well respected journals. 

Recent published articles include:

• Einstein D, Reinhall P, Kunzelman KS, Cochran RP: Nonlinear finite element analysis of the mitral valve. J Heart Valve Dis, 2005;14(3):376-85.

• Chambers C, Eisenhauer M, McNicol L, Block P, Phillips W, Dehmer G, Heupler F, Blankenship J and the Members of the Catheterization Lab Performance Standards Committee for the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions: Infection Control Guidelines for the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Society Guidelines Revisited: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 67:78–86 (2006)

• Einstein D, Reinhall P, Kunzelman KS, Cochran RP: The relationship of normal and abnormal microstructural proliferation to the mitral valve closure sound: ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 2005;127(1):134-147.

• Brown JR, Cochran R, Dacey LJ, Ross CS, Kunzelman KS, Dunton RF, Braxton JH, Charlesworth DC, Clough, RA, Helm RE, Leavitt BJ, MacKenzie TA, O'Connor GT, Perioperative increases in serum creatinine are predictive of increased 90-day mortality following cardiac surgery. American Heart Association, presented November 2005.  Circ. In press, 2006.