email: agarfinkel@mednet.ucla.edu
phone: 310-794-7214
office: 57-145 CHS
research interests: mathematical modeling of electrophysiology
Research Interests
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling of cellular and tissue electrophysiology. Analysis of data from experimental and clinical arrhythmias using techniques of nonlinear dynamics ("chaos theory"). Development of pharmacologic and electrophysiologic interventions to prevent or control arrhythmias.
Selected Publications
Garfinkel A, Tintut Y, Petrasek D, Bostrom K and Demer LL. 2004. Pattern formation by vascular mesenchymal cells Proc Natl. Acad Sci (US) 101(25) 9247-50 .
A Garfinkel, YH Kim, O Voroshilovsky, Z Qu, JR Kil, MH Lee, HS Karagueuzian, JN Weiss and PS Chen.. 2000. Preventing ventricular fibrillation by flattening cardiac restitution Proc. Nat . Acad Sci 6061-6066 (and cover) .
S. Port, L. Demer, R. Jennrich, D. Walter and A. Garfinkel. 2000. Systolic blood pressure and mortality The Lancet 355 175-80 .
Z Qu, J N Weiss, A Garfinkel.. 1999. Cardiac restitution properties and the stability of reentrant spiral waves: a simulation study Am. J. Physiol 276 H269-H283 (and cover) .
P Krogstad, C Uittenbogaart, R Dickover, YJ Bryson, S Plaeger and A Garfinkel. 1999. Primary HIV infection of infants: the effects of somatic growth on lymphocyte and virus dynamics Clinical Immunology 92 25-3 .
Z. Qu, F. Xie, and A. Garfinkel. 1999. Diffusion-induced vortex filament instability in 3-Dimensional excitable media Phys. Rev. Lett 2668-2671 .
Alan Garfinkel, Peng S. Chen, Donald O. Walter, Hrayr S. Karagueuzian, Boris Kogan, Steven J. Evans, Mikhail Karpoukhin, Chun Hwang, Takumi Uchida, Masamichi Gotoh, Obi Nwasokwa, Philip Sager and James N. Weiss. 1997. Quasiperiodicity and chaos in cardiac fibrillation J. Clin. Inv 99 305-314 (and cover) .
A. Garfinkel, M.L. Spano, W.L. Ditto and J.N. Weiss. 1992. Controlling cardiac chaos Science 57 1230-1235 .