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Cardiology Division Faculty Catherine M. Otto

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

B.A., Reed College, Portland, OR, 1975.

M.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1979 (with Honors).

Residency in Internal Medicine, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, 1979-1982.

Fellowship in Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1982-1985.

Catherine M. Otto M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., F.A.H.A.
Professor of Medicine
J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Professorship in Cardiology
Director, Training Programs in Cardiovascular Disease

University of Washington Medical Center
1959 N.E. Pacific Street
Box 356422
Seattle, WA 98195-6422
(206) 598-4300
Fax: (206) 616-4847

BOARD CERTIFICATION

ABIM, Cardiovascular Diseases, 1985.

American Board of Internal Medicine, 1982.

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

Valvular heart disease

Adult congenital heart disease

Echocardiography

Inherited cardiac diseases

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Marfan Syndrome: Prevention of aortic root dilation

Bicuspid aortic valve disease

Aortic stenosis: Etiology and prevention of disease progression

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Otto, C.M., Valvular Heart Disease, Saunders, 2nd edition, 2004.

Oxorn, D, and Otto, CM. Atlas of Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography: Surgical and Radiologic Correlations, Elsevier, 2006.

Otto, C.M., Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography, Elsevier, 3rd edition, 2004.

Otto, C.M., Ed., The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, 3rd edition, Elsevier, 2007.

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