EDUCATION AND TRAINING

M.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, 1970.

Internship and Residency, University of Washington Seattle, WA, 1970-1973.

B.S., DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1966.

Fellowship in Cardiology, University of Washington Seattle, WA, 1973-1975.

James H. Caldwell M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A.
Professor of Medicine & Radiology
Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering
Director, Nuclear Cardiology, University of Washington Medical Center

BOARD CERTIFICATION

Subspeciality of Cardiology, 1979.

American Board of Internal Medicine, 1975.

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

General cardiology and nuclear cardiology

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Positron emission tomography imaging of pre- and post-synaptic sympathetic function in sudden cardiac death survivors, in heart failure, and in the normal aging process

Development of new radiotracers

PET and PET/CT reconstruction methods

Single photo emission computed tomography and position emission tomography of myocardial blood flow and metabolism for diagnosis of various types of heart diseases.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Alessio A, Kinahan P, Chen G, Branch K, Caldwell JH, Attenuation-emission alignment in cardiac PET/CT with consistency conditions, IEEE (in press).

Alessio A, Kohlmeyer S, Chen G, Branch K, Caldwell J, Kinahan P, Cine CT imaging for PET attenuation correction with cardiac PET/CT, J. Nucl. Med. 46, 57P, 2006.

Caldwell, JH, Kroll, K, Seymour, KM, Link, JM, Krohn, KA, Quantitation of pre-synaptic cardiac sympathetic function with 11C-meta-hydroxyephedrine (MHED): Validation of a blood-tissue exchange model, J. Nucl. Med. 39:1327–1334, 1998.

Link, JM, Stratton, JR, Levy, W, Poole, JE, Shoner, SC, Stuetzle, W, Caldwell, JH, PET Measures of Pre- and Post-synaptic Cardiac Beta Adrenergic Function, Nucl. Med. Biol. 30:795–803, 2003.

Chen GP, Tabibiazar R, Branch KR, et al., Cardiac receptor physiology and imaging: an update, J. Nucl. Cardiol. 12(6):714–730, 2005.

Hacklander T, Wegner H, Hoppe S, Danckworth A, Kempkes U, Fischer M, Mertens H, Caldwell, JH, Agreement of multisclice CT angiography and MR angiography in assessing the degree of carotid artery stenosis in consideration of different methods of post processing, J. Comput. Assisted. Tomogr. 30(3):433–442, 2006.