EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Clinical Associate, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, 1977-1980.

Internship and Residency, Medical College of Virginia Richmond, VA, 1975-1977.

M.D. University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine Chicago, IL, 1975.

B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1971.

Cardiology Research Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1980-1982.

Florence H. Sheehan M.D.
Research Professor of Medicine
Attending Physician, University of Washington Medical Center
Director, Cardiovascular Research and Training

BOARD CERTIFICATION

American Board of Internal Medicine, 1978.

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

Cardiac imaging and image analysis for patient care, clinical investigation and clinical trials

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Three-dimensional echocardiography and MRI

The right ventricle in congenital heart disease and other conditions

for more information see: http://depts.washington.edu/cvrtc

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Patents: 7 awarded, 2 pending

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Wong SP, Johnson RK, Sheehan FH. Rapid and accurate left ventricular surface generation from three-dimensional echocardiography by a catalog-based method, Int. J. Card. Imaging 19:9–17, 2003.

Smith JL, Bolson EL, Wong SP, Hubka M, Sheehan FH. Three-dimensional assessment of two-dimensional technique for evaluation of right ventricular function by tricuspid annulus motion, Int. J. Card. Imag. 19:189–197, 2003.

Dorosz J, Bolson EL, Waiss MS, Sheehan FH. Three-dimensional visual guidance improves the accuracy of calculating right ventricular volume with two-dimensional echocardiography, J. Am. Soc. Echocardiogr. 16:675–681, 2003.

Sheehan FH, Bolson EL. Measurement of right ventricular volume from contrast ventriculograms: In vitro validation by cast and three-dimensional echo, Cathet. Cardiovasc. Intervention 62:46–51, 2004.

Poppas A, Sheehan FH, Reisman M, Harms V, Kornowski R. Validation of viability assessment by electromechanical mapping by three-dimensional reconstruction with dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with coronary artery disease, Am. J. Cardiol. 93:1087–1101, 2004.

Hubka M, McDonald JA, Wong S, Bolson EL, Sheehan FH. Monitoring change in the three-dimensional shape of the human left ventricle, J. Am. Soc. Echo. 17:404–410, 2004.

Sheehan FH, Geiser EA, Munt B, Otto CM. Performance of user independent echocardiographic border detection algorithm: Comparison with human observer variability, Int'l. J. Card. Imag. 21:617–625, 2005.

Jung HO, sheehan FH, Bolson EL, Waiss M-P, Otto CM. Evaluation of midwall systolic function in left ventricular hypertrophy: A comparison of 3D versus 2D echo indices, J. Am. Soc. Echocardiogr. 19:802–810, 2006.

Clark TJ, Sheehan FH, Bolson EL. Characterizing the normal heart using quantitative three-dimensional echocardiography, Physiol. Meas. 27:467–508, 2006.