EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Clinical Fellow in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology, Massachusetts General Hospital (Brigham & Women's Hospital), Boston, MA, 2004.

B.A., The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1991.

M.D., Oregon Health Sciences University Portland, OR, 1995.

Residency in Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 1998.

Research Fellow in Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital Seidman Lab (Brigham & Women's Hospital), Boston, MA, 2000.

Kristen K. Patton M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Attending Physician, University of Washington Medical Center

BOARD CERTIFICATION

ABIM Certification in Internal Medicine, 1998

ABIM Certification in Cardiovascular Disease, 2002

ABIM Certification in Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2005

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

Mapping and ablation of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias

Arrhythmia management

Cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Genetics, pharmacotherapy, cardiac rhythm devices in athletes

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Best Doctors in America 2004–present.

Alpha Omega Alpha, Medical Honor Society, 1994.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Patton K, Seidman CE, Genetic causes of atrial septal defects, in The Molecular Genetics of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Kluwar Academic, C.I. Berul & J.A. Towbin, Eds., 1999.

Patton KK, Page RL, New-onset paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: Is permanence inevitable? Am. Heart J. 149(3):388-390, 2005.

Niimura H, Patton KK, McKenna WJ, Soults J, Maron BJ, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Sarcomere protein gene mutations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy of the elderly, Circulation 105 (4):446-451, 2002.

Patton K, Reddy VY, Optimizing the defibrillation vector with a right-sided implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, Heart Rhythm 1(6):756, 2004 (no abstract available).

Ellinor PT, Moore RK, Patton KK, Ruskin JN, Pollak MR, Macrae CA,Mutations in the long QT gene, KCNQ1, are an uncommon cause of atrial Fibrillation, Heart 90(12):1487-1488, 2004.

Ellinor PT, Low AF, Patton KK, Shea MA, Macrae CA, Discordant atrial natriuretic peptide and brain natriuretic peptide levels in lone atrial fibrillation, J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 45(1):82-86, 2005.

Patton KK, Zacks ES, Chang JY, Shea MA, Ruskin JN, Macrae CA, Ellinor PT, Clinical subtypes of lone atrial fibrillation, Pacing Clin. Electrophysiol. 28(7):630-638, 2005.

Ellinor PT, Low A, Patton KK, Shea MA, MacRae CA, C-Reactive protein in lone atrial fibrillation, Am. J. Cardiol. 97(9):1346-1350, 2006 (Epub March 20, 2006).

Patton K. Antiarrhythmics for interventional cardiology, in SCAI Interventional Cardiology Board Review, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, M.J. Kern, Ed., 2007.