William Clusin, MD

Clinical Focus

• Cardiology (Heart)
• Cardiovascular Disease

Administrative Appointments

• Consultant Cardiologist, Palo Alto VA Medical Center (1994 - present)
• Attending Cardiologist, Stanford Medical Center (1981 - present)
• Medical Director Adult ECG Laboratory, Stanford Medical Center (2000 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Overseas Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine (London) (2008)
• Member, NIH Cardiovascular Study Section (1988-1992)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical Investigation (1988-1992)
• Fellow, American College of Physicians (1998)
• Fellow, American Heart Association (2001)

Professional Education

Research Interests

Cardiac action potentials; tissue culture, voltage, clamp technique; role of calcium in ischemia arrhythmias; coronary, artery disease; myocardial infarction.

Publications

• Mechanisms of calcium transient and action potential alternans in cardiac cells and tissues. Clusin WT, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008; 294 (1): H1-H10
• Low-dose growth hormone is cardioprotective in uremia. Rabkin R, Awwad I, Chen Y, Ashley EA, Sun D, Sood S, Clusin W, Heidenreich P, Piecha G, Gross ML. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008; 19 (9): 1774-83
• Spatial heterogeneity of action potential alternans during global ischemia in the rabbit heart. Qian YW, Sung RJ, Lin SF, Province R, Clusin WT. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2003; 285 (6): H2722-33
• Calcium and cardiac arrhythmias: DADs, EADs, and alternans. Clusin WT, Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci. 2003; 40 (3): 337-75
• Spatial heterogeneity of calcium transient alternans during the early phase of myocardial ischemia in the blood-perfused rabbit heart. Qian YW, Clusin WT, Lin SF, Han J, Sung RJ. Circulation. 2001; 104 (17): 2082-7