Contact Information

Appointments: 919-681-5816

Office: 919-681-5444, 919-668-3668

Fax: 919-681-1916

Programs

Consultative Heart Care
Peripheral Vascular Disease

Location

Duke Health Center at North Duke Street

Duke Health Center at Southpoint

Duke Raleigh Hospital

Education

Diploma in Nursing, Sewickley Valley Hospital School of Nursing, PA
BSN, University of San Diego
MSN, University of Maryland
Post-masters certificate for Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, University of Maryland

Research

Acute lower extremity ischemia following coronary revascularization, management of the femoral artery after transluminal repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms, comparison of morbidity and mortality between patients undergoing below-knee amputation for ischemia with and without the use of pneumatic tourniquet, comparison of coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients on hemodialysis, predictors of limb loss and mortality following infrainguinal bypass in end-stage renal disease, nonaneurysmal aortitis, plasma homocysteine and other genetic risk factors in precocious atherosclerosis, factors influencing limb salvage and survival following amputation and revascularization in patients with end-stage renal disease

Clinical Interests/Specialties

Interventional and general cardiology, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, myocardial infarction, cardiac arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, vascular medicine and vascular surgery