EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Post-doctoral Fellowship, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program, University of Washington, Seattle, 2001–2003.

Cardiology Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, 1999–2003.

Internship and Residency, University of Washington, Seattle, 1996–1999.

MPH Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, 1996.

B.S, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1991.

M.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1996.

Nona Sotoodehnia M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Attending Physician, Harborview Medical Center
Attending Physician, University of Washington Medical Center

BOARD CERTIFICATION

American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiology Subspecialty, 2004.

American Board of Internal Medicine, 1999.

State Medical License, Washington, 1996.

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

Preventive Cardiology

Sudden Cardiac Death

General Cardiology

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Genomics of ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

American Heart Association Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Young Investigator Award for outstanding research in epidemiology - 2004

Stamler Distinguished Young Investigator Research Award for excellence in the field of cardiovascular clinical research - 2005

Philip and Helen Fialkow Scholars Award - 2011

Affiliation/Membership: American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Sotoodehnia N, Zivin A, Bardy G, Siscovick D. Reducing Mortality from Sudden Cardiac Death in the Community: Lessons from Epidemiologic and Clinical Applications Research. Cardiovascular Research. 2001 May; 50(2):197-209.

Friedlander Y, Vatta M, Sotoodehnia N, Kark J, Towbin J, Siscovick D, Sinnereich R. Possible Association of the human KCNE1 (MinK) gene and QT Interval in Healthy Subjects: Evidence from Association and Linkage Analyses in Israeli families. Annals of Human Genetics. 2005 November; 69(Pt 6):645-56.

Sotoodehnia N, Siscovick D, Vatta M, Psaty B, Tracy R, Towbin J, Lemaitre R, Rea T, Durda P, Chang J, Lumley T, Kuller L, Burke G, Heckbert S. Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor Variants and Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death. Circulation. 2006 April 18; 113(15): 1842-8.

Lemaitre R, King I, Mozaffarian D, Sotoodehnia N, Rea T, Kuller L, Tracy R, Siscovick D. Plasma Phospholipid Trans-Fatty Acids, Fatal Ischemic Heart Disease, and Sudden Cardiac Death in Older Adults. The Cardiovascular Health Study. Circulation. 2006 Jul 18;114(3):209-15.

Lemaitre RN, Heckbert SR, Sotoodehnia N, Bis JC, Smith NL, Marciante KD, Hindorff LA, Lange LA, Lumley TS, Rice KM, Wiggins KL, Psaty BM. Beta1- and beta2-Adrenergic Receptor Gene Variation, beta-Blocker Use and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke. Am J Hypertens. 2008 Jan 24.

Kao WH, Arking DE, Post W, Rea TD, Sotoodehnia N, Prineas RJ, Bishe B, Doan BQ, Boerwinkle E, Psaty BM, Tomaselli GF, Coresh J, Siscovick DS, Márban E, Spooner PM, Burke GL, Chakravarti A. Genetic Variations in NOS1AP are Associated with Sudden Cardiac Death in U.S. White Community-based Populations. Circulation. 2009 Feb 24;119(7):940-51.

Newton-Cheh C, Eijgelsheim M, Rice KM, de Bakker PI, Yin X, Estrada K, Bis JC, Marciante K, Rivadeneira F, Noseworthy PA, Sotoodehnia N, Smith NL, Rotter JI, Kors JA, Witteman JC, Hofman A, Heckbert SR, O’Donnell CJ, Uitterlinden AG, Psaty BM, Lumley T, Larson MG, Stricker BH. Common variants at ten loci influence QT interval duration in the QTGEN Study. Nat Genet. 2009 Apr;41(4):399-406.

Benjamin EJ, Rice KM, Arking DE, Pfeufer A, van Noord C, Smith AV, Schnabel RB, Bis JC, Boerwinkle E, Sinner MF, Dehghan A, Lubitz SA, D’Agostino RB, Lumley T, Ehret GB, Heeringa J, Aspelund T, Newton-Cheh C, Larson MG, Marciante KD, Soliman EZ, Rivadeneira R, Wang TJ, Eiríksdóttir G, Levy D, Psaty BM, Li M, Chamberlain AM, Hofman A, Vasan RS, Harris TB, Rotter JI, Kao WHL, Agarwal SK, Stricker BH, Wang K, Launer LJ, Smith NL, Chakravarti A, Uitterlinden AG, Wolf PA, Sotoodehnia N, Köttgen A, van Duijn CM, Lunetta KL, Heckbert SR, Gudnason V, Alonso A, Kääb S, Ellinor PT, Witteman JC. Variants associated with atrial fibrillation in individuals of European ancestry. Nat Genet. 2009 Aug;41(8):879-81.

Sotoodehnia N, Li G, Johnson CO, Lemaitre RN, Rice KM, Rea TD, Siscovick DS. Genetic Variation in ACE-related pathways associated with Sudden Cardiac Arrest Risk. Heart Rhythm Journal. 2009 Sep;6(9):1306-14.

Pfeufer A, van Noord C, Marciante KD, Arking DE, Larson MG, Smith AV, Tarasov KV, Müller M, Sotoodehnia N, Sinner MF, Verwoert GC, Li M, Kao WH, Köttgen A, Coresh J, Bis JC, Psaty BM, Rice K, Rotter JI, Rivadeneira F, Hofman A, Kors JA, Stricker BH, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn CM, Beckmann BM, Sauter W, Gieger C, Lubitz SA, Newton-Cheh C, Wang TJ, Magnani JW, Schnabel RB, Chung MK, Barnard J, Smith JD, Van Wagoner DR, Vasan RS, Aspelund T, Eiriksdottir G, Harris TB, Launer LJ, Najjar SS, Lakatta E, Schlessinger D, Uda M, Abecasis GR, Müller-Myhsok B, Ehret GB, Boerwinkle E, Chakravarti A, Soliman EZ, Lunetta KL, Perz S, Wichmann HE, Meitinger T, Levy D, Gudnason V, Ellinor PT, Sanna S, Kääb S, Witteman JC, Alonso A, Benjamin EJ, Heckbert SR. Genome-wide association study of PR interval. Nat Genet. 2010 Jan 10.