Joseph A. Kisslo, MD

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• General and Consultative Heart Care

Department / Division:
Medicine / Cardiovascular Medicine

Address:
DUMC 3818
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
(919) 684-6398

Office Telephone:
(919) 684-6398

Fax Telephone:
(919) 684-2022

• M.D., Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, 1967

• Medicine, Yale University, Connecticut, 1970-1971

• Pediatric Cardiology, Yale University, Connecticut, 1971-1972
• Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1972-1974

Clinical Interests:
Echocardiography, complex morphologic cardiac problems, hemodynamics, cardiac imaging

Research Interests:
Dr. Kisslo's research has centered around the development and initial application of new ultrasound imaging devices.  Focussed principally on morphologic diagnosis in the early years, the work has become progressively more physiologic in it's orientation.  

After more than two decades there are now 300 original research papers, several textbooks and other materials.  Dr. Kisslo has distinguished himself as the first to use phased array ultrasound imaging in the human body and, accordingly, was the first to describe most of the disease for which the technique is now commonplace.  He was very early into the applications of Doppler color flow imaging and transesophageal imaging with ultrasound.  He has served as an officer or on the Board of a variety of national and international bodies.  He was one of the first President's of the American Society of Echocardiography.  He reviews in all aspects of cardiac imaging, but principally echocardiography.

Over the past 15 years he has also had a keen interest in medical economics and has served on various professional and governmental boards in describing medical costs and dealing with medical economics.  More recently, he has taken interest in adult re-education through remote learning means (telemedicine) and has become the Clinical Director of Telemedicine at Duke.  He is Executive Producer of the world's largest telemedicine program (Echo in Context) which has run for the past 14 years.  This was the first educational event to circumnavigate the globe live.

He is a frequent scientific and motivational lecturer to scientific organizations and industry.  He serves as advisor to several governmental and industrial organizations.

Key words:  Echocardiography, cardiac imaging, medical reimbursement, telemedicine, adult re-education.

Representative Publications:
Kisslo, J., von Ramm, O.T., Thurstone, F.I.: Cardiac imaging using a phased array ultrasound system II: Clinical technique and application. Circulation, 53:262-267, 1976. (1976)

Sheikh, K.H., Bengtson, J.R., Rankin, J.S., DeBruijn, N.P., Kisslo, J.: Intraoperative transesophageal Doppler color flow imaging used to guide patient selection and operative treatment of ischemic mitral regurgitation. Circulation. 84:594-604, 1991. (1991)

Gaynor, J.W., Feneley, M.P., Gall, S.A., Maier, G.W., Kisslo, J.A., Davis, J.W., Rankin, J.S., Glower, D.D.: Measurement of left ventricular volume in normal and volume-overload canine hearts. American Journal of Physiology. 266-H329-340, 1994. (1994)

Tice, F.D., Heinle, S.K., Harrison, J.K., Bashore, T.M., Lieberman, E.B., Wilson, J.S., Kisslo, K.B., Kisslo, J.: Transesophageal echocardiographic assessment of reversal of systolic pulmonary venous flow in mitral stenosis. American Journal of Cardiology. 75:58-60, 1995. (1995)

Kisslo, J., Byrd, B.F., Geiser, E.A. Gilliam, L.D., Watkins-Ivy, T., Kerber, R.E., Pearlman, A.S., Sisk, E.J., Skelly, A.C., Thigpen, T., Weyman, A.E., Gardin, J.M., Adams, D.B., Armstrong, W.F., Kisslo, K.B., Seward, J.B., Stevenson J.G., Williams, R.G.: Recommendations for continuous quality improvement in echocardiography. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 8:S1-28, 1995. (1995)