Department / Division:
Pediatrics / Cardiology

Address:
DUMC 3090
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-668-4000

Office Telephone:
919-681-2916

Fax Telephone:
919-681-7892

• MD, University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio, 1996

• Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 1996-1999

• Pediatric Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, 1999-2002

Clinical Interests:
Pediatric cardiology; echocardiography including fetal, transthoracic, and transesophageal imaging; pediatric cardiac intensive care; fetal diagnosis and counseling; clinical research studies; telemedicine imaging

Research Interests:
Echocardiographic assesment of diastolic function.

Echocardiographic assesment of cardiomyopathies.

Use of echocardiography in the intensive care unit.

Single ventricle palliation approaches and long-term medical therapies.

Pericardial effusions after bone marrow transplantation.

Clopidigrel therapy for reduction of neonatal shunt thrombosis.

Evaluation of cardiac output in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Representative Publications:
Camitta MG, Li JS, St. Geme III JW.  Infective endocarditis. In: Shah S, ed. Pediatric Practice: Infectious Disease. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2009. (2009)

Barker PC, Houle H, Li JS, Miller S, Herlong JR, Camitta MG. Global longitudinal cardiac strain and strain rate for assessment of fetal cardiac function: novel experience with velocity vector imaging. Echocardiography. 2009 Jan;26(1):28-36. (2009) Abstract

Drinker LR, Camitta MG, Herlong JR, Miller S, Lodge AJ, Jaggers J, Barker PC. Use of the monoplane intracardiac imaging probe in high-risk infants during congenital heart surgery. Echocardiography. 2008 Oct;25(9):999-1003. (2008) Abstract

Milazzo AS, Golioto A, Camitta MG, O'Laughlin MP. An infant with subvalvar and valvar aortic stenosis, subvalvar and valvar pulmonary stenosis, severe biventricular hypertrophy and pulmonary hemorrhage. Pediatr Cardiol. 2003 Mar-Apr;24(2):169-71. (2003) Abstract

Camitta MG, Gabel SA, Chulada P, Bradbury JA, Langenbach R, Zeldin DC, Murphy E. Cyclooxygenase-1 and -2 knockout mice demonstrate increased cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury but are protected by acute preconditioning. Circulation. 2001 Nov 13;104(20):2453-8. (2001) Abstract