David S. Goldstein

 

Curriculum Vitae

February, 2006

 

Born in Newark, NJ, June 23, 1948.

 

Family

  

Married 11/1972 to Minka Krasow of Danbury, Conn. Children: Yakira, born 11/1974; Samuel, born 6/1976; Zvi, born 4/1978; Mona, born 5/1982; Joseph, born 1/1990.

 

Address and phone

  

7711 Fontaine Street  

Potomac, Maryland 20854  

(301) 299-2201

e-mail: daveg@his.com

 

Clinical Neurocardiology Section

NINDS, NIH  

Building 10 6N252

10 Center Drive, MSC-1620  

Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1620 

(301) 496-2103

FAX: (301) 402-0180

e-mail: goldsteind@ninds.nih.gov

 

Education, Employment, and Appointments

  

Weequahic High School, Newark, NJ, 1962-1965.  

Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass, 1965-1966.  

Yale College, New Haven, CN, 1966-1970. Graduated Cum Laude with Honors with Exceptional Distinction in Psychology.

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 1970-1976. MD, PhD in Behavioral Sciences. Dissertation: Instrumental Cardiovascular Conditioning.  

Summer exchange fellow in cardiovascular physiology, Department of Physiology, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1971.

Medical internship and residency, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle, WA, 1976-1978.  

Clinical Associate, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, 1978-1982.       

Medical Staff Fellow, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, 1982-1983.  

Senior Investigator, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, 1983-1990.

Consultant Physician, The Washington Clinic, Washington DC, 1985-1994.  

Promotion (to GM-14 from GM-13), 5/1989.

Promotion (to GM-15 from GM-14), 3/1992.

Chief, Clinical Neurochemistry Section, Clinical Neuroscience Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, 1992-1999.

Converted to Title 38 position, 1997.

Converted to Title 42 position, 2003.

Senior Fellow, Institute for Defense Analysis/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2003-2004.

 

 

         Current

 

Attending Physician, Clinical Staff, The Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 1983-date.

Senior Investigator, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, 1990-date.

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, 1989-date.

Visiting Professor of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 1999-date.

Visiting Professor of Medicine,  Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2004-date.

Chief, Clinical Neurocardiology Section, Clinical Neurosciences Program, Divison of Intramural Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, 1999-date.

 

Certifications and Authorizations

 

Board certified in internal medicine, ABIM No. 69707, 9/12/1979-date.

Authorized User for Human Use of Radioactive Materials, NIH Radiation Safety Committee

         3H-Norepinephrine

         3H-Epinephrine

         131I-Albumin

Certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, American Heart Association, 1983-date.

Investigational New Drug Applications (Active)

         #21,220 Yohimbine hydrochloride

         #33,866 6-[18F]Fluorodopamine (Sponsor= P. Herscovitch)

         #35,513  6-[18F]Fluorodopa (Sponsor= P. Herscovitch)

         #40,747 [13N]-Ammonia  (Sponsor= P. Herscovitch)

         #63,002 Trimethaphan

         #67,315 Tyramine hydrochloride

         #67,729 Acetylcholine

         #71,374  Pentolinium

Licensed to practice medicine in the State of Maryland, #D23433, 1979-date.

        

Honors

 

Cum Laude Society and National Honor Society, 1965-1966.

Dean's List, Yale College, 1966-1970. Eugene Meyer Memorial Scholarship, Yale College, 1966-1970. Graduated Cum Laude with Honors with Exceptional Distinction in Psychology, Yale College, 1970. Recipient, Angier Prize for Research in Psychology, Yale College, 1970.

Elected, American Society of Clinical Investigation, 5/1990.

Visiting Professor in Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 1986.  

Elected to Membership, American Society of Clinical Investigation, 5/1990.

Visiting Professor, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Ha-Shomer, Israel, 6-8/1993.

Pfizer Lecturer, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, 5/1994.

Recipient, Merit Performance Cash Award, NIH, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996. Merit Pay bonus recipient, NIH, 1985-1994, 1996.

Recipient, Willem Laufberger Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, 7/1994.

Recipient, NIH Merit Award, 1994.

Elected to Fellowship, Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association, 1996.

Elected to Fellowship, Council on Circulation, American Heart Association, 1996.

Recipient, NIH Staff Recognition Award, 3/2000.

Recipient, Group NINDS Merit Award, “for excellence in patient-oriented clinical research,” 6/2000.

Elected to Fellowship, American Heart Association, 4/2001.

Recipient, Presidential Executive Director’s Award, National Dysautonomia Research Foundation, 7/2002.

Saul Farber Distinguished Lecturer, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Israel, 10/2002.

Recipient, NIH Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award, 9/2004.

John L. Decker Memorial Lecturer, NIH Clinical Center, 6/2005.

Special Recognition Award for exceptional mentoring, NINDS, 12/2005.

 

Active Clinical Research Protocols (PI=Principal Investigator)

 

03-N-0004      Clinical Laboratory Evaluation of Primary Chronic Autonomic Failure. PI=D.S. Goldstein (Radiation Safety Authorization No. 1928)

03-N-0007      Characterization & Identification of Paroxysmal Hypertensive/Hypercatecholamine Syndromes. PI=G. Eisenhofer (Radiation Safety Authorization No. 1925)

03-N-0314      Clinical Laboratory Evaluation of Chronic Orthostatic Intolerance. PI=D.S. Goldstein (Radiation Safety Authorization No. 1943)

05-N-0024      Non-Pharmacologic Therapy of Neurocardiogenic Syncope. PI=B. Eldadah.

06-N-0047      Reference Values for Plasma Catechols. PI=D.S. Goldstein.

 

Post-doctoral researchers and their subsequent positions

 

Arno Zaritsky, MD (Children's Hospital, Wash., DC, 1986) Director, Intensive Care Unit, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Reuven Zimlichman, MD (Israel, 1984-1987) Chief of Medicine, Wolfson Hospital, Cholon, Israel

David Hovevey-Sion, PhD (Israel, 1986-1988)

Peter Chang, MD (Holland, 1988-1989) Department of Nephrology, Univ. of Leiden, The Netherlands

Moshe Garty, MD (Israel, 1987-1988) Chief of Medicine, Rabin Medical Center, and Director, Recanati Center for Medicine and Research, Petach Tikve, Israel

Ehud Grossman, MD (Israel, 1988-1990) Professor of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and Chief of Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

C.Y. Chai, PhD (Taiwan, 1989)

Katalin Szemeredi, PhD (Hungary, 1986-1990) President, Egis Pharmaceuticals, Budapest, Hungary

Marye Tamrat, MD, PhD (Howard University School of Medicine, 1989-1990) Associate Professor of Medicine (Intensive Care), Howard Univ., Washington, DC

Maria Ines Armando, PhD (Argentina, 1989-1992) Faculty, Centro de Investigaciones Endocrinologicas, Hospital de Ninos "R. Gutierrez," Buenos Aires, Argentina

Efrat Wolfovitz, MD (Israel, 1991-1992) Chief, Department of Medicine, Rothschild Hospital, Haifa, Israel

John Finberg, PhD (Israel, 1991-1992) Faculty, Rapaport Center, Univ. of Haifa, Israel

Jacques Lenders, MD (Holland, 1991-1992) Faculty, Department of Medicine, St. Radboud University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Anna Deka-Starosta, MD (Poland, 1986-1994)

Gal Yadid, PhD (Israel, 1991-1994) Faculty, Dept. of Life Science, Bar-Ilan Univ., Ramat-Gan, Israel

John Stuhlmuller, MD (USA, 1993-1995) US FDA

Olga Tjurmina, PhD (Russia, 1996-1998) Health Science Administrator Training Program, NIH

Cees Tack, MD, PhD (The Netherlands, 1997-1998) Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Radboud University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Stephen G. Kaler, MD (USA, 1995-1999) Clinical Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH.

Jigisha Patel, MD (United Kingdom, 1999-2000) Post-doctoral Fellow, University College, London, UK

Simon Bruce, MD (USA, 1998-2000) SmithKline Beecham, Inc.

Karel Pacak, MD (Czech Republic, 1990-1995, 1997-2000) Senior Investigator, National Institute of Child Health and Development, NIH

Patricia Villemagne, MD (Argentina, 1999-2000) Department of Nuclear Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Steven M. Frank, MD (USA, 1999-2000) Department of Anesthesiology, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

Sheng-Ting Li , MD, PhD (China, 1998-2003), Nuclear Medicine Technologist, Nuclear Medicine Department, CC, NIH

Yehonatan Sharabi, MD (Israel, 2001-2003), Head, Hypertension Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel

Dnyanesh Tipre, PhD (India, 2004-2005) Visiting Fellow, NCI

 

         Current

 

Graeme Eisenhofer, PhD (New Zealand, 1985-1988, 1991-1998), Staff Scientist, NINDS

Basil Eldadah, MD (USA, 2002-date), Clinical Fellow, NIH

Yehonatan Sharabi, MD Clinical Fellow (Title 42, Part-time)

Ahmed Saleem, MD (Iraq, 2004-date) Clinician

 

Current Collaborations within and outside NIH

 

         Within NIH

 

Collaborator Institution                              Topic

Csako            CC                                         Plasma catechols and metanephrines assays (GE)

Dionne            NIDCR                                   Neurotropin™ for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome                      (Clinical Protocol 00-D-0200)

Eisenhofer       NINDS (CNCS)                    Pseudopheochromocytoma

                                                                     (Clinical Protocol 03-N-0007)

Eldadah          NINDS (CNCS)                    Relationship of autonomic function to hypnotic

                                                                     susceptibility (Clinical Protocol 03-N-0199)

Elkahloun        NIHGR                                   Microarray studies of pheochromcotyoma (GE)

Innis               NIMH                                    NET ligand development

Kaler              NICHD                                  Neurochemical testing in Menkes disease (Clinical

                                                                     Protocol 90-N-149)

Kirk               NIDDK                                  Catecholaldehydes

Merke            NICHD/CC                            Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (Clinical Protocol 01-

                                                                     CH-0096)(GE)

Pacak             NICHD                                  Clinical evaluation of pheochromocytoma (Clinical

                                                                     Protocol 00-CH-93)(GE)

         Outside NIH

 

Collaborator Institution                              Topic

Appenzeller    NMHEMC Res. Fdn.             Autonomic function in chronic hypoxia

Bauman/         VAMC Bronx NY                  Catecholamine systems and NO in tetraplegia

Wecht

Bornstein        Univ. of Heidelberg                 Adrenocortical regulation of adrenomedullary                Germany (GE)     function

Charney          Mt. Sinai Sch. Med.                Alpha-2 adrenoceptor subtype polymorphisms

Freeman/        Deaconess, Boston                  L-DOPS for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension

Kaufmann       Mt. Sinai, NY                         L-DOPS for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension

Geller/Sun       Children's Hosp. Boston          Gene therapy in an animal model of Parkinson’s                     disease

Lambert          Baker Med. Res. Inst.             NGF in autonomic failure

                      Australia

Lenders          Univ. of Nijmegen                   Neurochemical diagnosis of pheochromocytoma (GE)

                      The Netherlands

Neumeister     Yale                                        Alpha-2 adrenoceptor subtype polymorphisms

Phillips            Murdoch Univ.                        Pheochromocytoma cell biology (GE)

                       Australia

Sharabi/          Tel-Aviv Univ.                        Primary and secondary abnormalities of

Grossman       Israel                                      catecholamine systems in cardiovascular diseases

 

Memberships: Societies (Current)                                                              

        

Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation, 1990-date.

Member, American Heart Association, 1992-date.

Member, International Society for the Investigation of Stress, 1992-date.

Member, American Autonomic Society, 1992-date.

Member, American Physiological Society, 1996-date.

Member, Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section, American Physiological Society, 1997-date.

Fellow, American College of Physicians, 1986-date.

Fellow, Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association, 1996-date.

Fellow, Council on Circulation, American Heart Association, 1996-date.

Founding Member, Association for Patient-Oriented Research, 1999-date.

Member, American Academy of Neurology, 2000-date.

Member, Autonomic Nervous System Section, American Academy of Neurology, 2000-date.

 

Memberships: Committees and Boards (Current)

 

Editorial Board, Homeostasis, 1993-date.

Editorial Board, Stress, 1995-date.

Chairperson, Advisory Board, The Foundation for Catecholamine Research, 1997-date.

Board of Directors, National Foundation for Dysautonomia Research, 2000-date.

Editorial Board, Clinical Autonomic Research, 2001-date.

Executive Board, American Autonomic Society, 2002-date.

Founder, Scientific Integrative Medicine Interest Group, NIH, 2004-date.

Member, Intramural Research Board (IRB), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, 2004-date.

Executive Board, Autonomic Nervous System Section, American Academy of Neurology, 2004-date.

Executive Board, Association for Patient-Oriented Research, 2005-date.

 

Plenary/Named Lectures

 

Plenary lecture, “New clinical techniques to assess sympathetic innervation and function.” Ninth Conference of the American Autonomic Society, Sanibel Island, FL, 10/1998.

Combined Plenary Lecture, “Cardiac sympathetic denervation in Parkinson’s disease,” Ninth International Catecholamine Symposium and Fifth International Symposium on Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease, Kyoto, Japan, 4/2001.

Plenary Lecture, “Applying functional neuroimaging to autonomic disorders,” Thirteenth Annual Meeting, American Autonomic Society, Hilton Head, SC, 10/2002.

Plenary Lecture, “Visualizing sympathetic innervation of the heart,” Third World Congress on Heart Disease, Washington, DC, 7/2003.

John Laws Decker Memorial Lecture, “Concepts of scientific integrative medicine,” NIH, Bethesda, MD, 6/2005.

 

Invited Presentations                                                                                    

 

Invited participant, “Biochemical measures of reactivity,” Conference on Stress, Reactivity and Cardiovascular Disease, University of Pittsburgh and NHLBI, 1984

 

Invited speaker, “Catecholamines in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid: Sources and meanings,” Brain Peptides and Catecholamines in Cardiovascular Regulation in Normal and Disease States, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX, 1/1986

Invited lecture, “What an Internist Should Know about the Sympathetic Nervous System,” George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, 10/1986.

Invited participant, NIH Conference on the Mechanisms of Physical and Emotional Stress, Bethesda, MD 11/1986

Invited lecture, “Plasma Catecholamine Kinetics in Stress & Hypertension,” University of Maryland Hypertension Center, Baltimore, Md, 11/1986

 

Invited lecture, “New Approaches in the Clinical Assessment of Sympathetic Activity using Plasma Catecholamines, DOPA, and DHPG,” Catecholamine Club, FASEB, 3/1987

Invited lectures, “Plasma levels of DOPA, DHPG, and catecholamines in the clinical assessment of sympathetic activity,” the Hypertension Society, and “Estimation of cardiac norepinephrine release and neuronal uptake in man,” the Cardiovascular Division, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 5/1987

Invited lectures, “Plasma levels of DOPA, DHPG, and catecholamines in the clinical assessment of sympathetic activity,” and “Estimation of cardiac norepinephrine release and neuronal uptake in man,” Division of Cardiology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 5/1987

Invited speaker, “Plasma catecholamine responses to stress in essential hypertension,” Fourth Symposium on Catecholamines and Other Neurotransmitters in Stress, Smolenice Castle, Czechoslovakia, 6/1987

Invited lecture, “Source and Meaning of Endogenous DOPA,” Department of Neurology, USUHS, Bethesda, MD, 9/1987

 

Invited speaker, “Stress and Cardiovascular Disease,” Pennsylvania Claims Association, Philadelphia, PA, 1/1988

Invited lecture, “Physiology of Hypertension: Possible Mechanism for ECMO Hypertension,” 4th Annual Children's Hospital National Medical Center ECMO Symposium, Snowmass, CO, 2/1988

Cardiology Grand Rounds, “New clinical approaches for assessing cardiac sympathetic function,” Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CN, 4/1988

Invited lecture, “Plasma Catecholamines in Human Hypertension,” Symposium on Sympathetic Function and Human Hypertension, International Society of Hypertension, Sapporo, Japan, 5/1988.

Invited speaker, “Implications of measurements of plasma catechols in hypertension,” symposium on “Blood Pressure Mechanisms and the Sympathetic Nervous System--from Molecules to Man,” American Society of Hypertension, New York City, NY, 6/1988

Suburban Hospital Seminar, “Stress, the Sympathoadrenomedullary System, and Disease,” Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD, 9/1988

Invited lecture, “Clinical applications of plasma levels of catechols in hypertension,” American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 10/1988.

Invited lecture, “Clinical assessment of sympathetic nervous system activity,” Sociedad Argentina de Investigacion Clinica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 11/1988

 

Invited lectures, “Stress-Induced Activation of the Sympathetic Nervous System,” and “New Techniques for Clinical Assessments of Sympathetic Activity,” Major Conference Series, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2/1989

Invited lecture, “The sympathetic nervous system and hypertension,” Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, 2/1989

Invited presentation, “Assessment of sympathetic activity using new drug probes and PET scanning,” Gerontology Research Center, NIA, Baltimore, MD, 6/1989

Invited seminar, “New ideas about stress and the sympathoadrenomedullary system,” Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Georgetown University School of Medicine and Dentistry, Washington, DC, 11/1989

Clinical Center Grand Rounds, “Heartstrings: New techniques for clinical assessment of the sympathetic nervous system,” Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 12/1989

 

Invited lecture, “Norepinephrine kinetics in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy,” Cardiology Branch, NHLBI, 1/1990

Invited lecture, “Neurotransmitters and stress,” 21st Annual Meeting, Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Washington, DC, 3/1990

Invited lecture, “Plasma dopa levels and sympathetic nervous activity,” 13th Meeting of the International Society for Hypertension, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 6/1990

Faculty, “Catecholamines,” Gordon Conference, 7-8/1990

Invited lecture, “Sympathetic activity and reactivity in essential hypertension: Application of a yohimbine challenge test,” Irvine H. Page International Hypertension Research Symposium, National Hypertension Association, Baltimore, MD, 9/1990

Invited participant, Hypertension Collegium 1990, Laguna Niguel, CA, 10/1990

Invited lecture, “Clinical Applications of Monitoring Catechols,” Waters Neuroscience Symposium, Rockville, MD, 12/1990

 

Invited panelist, “The Transit 'Hot Seat'. A National Transit Labor/Management Conference.” Miami, FL, 2/1991

Invited lecture, “Positron emission tomographic scanning of cardiac sympathetic innervation and function,” for the Symposium, “Advances in Integrative Neurocirculatory Physiology,” FASEB, Atlanta, GA, 4/1991

Invited lecture, “Clinical uses of catechols in the assessment of sympathoadrenal activity in stress and disease,” Fifth Symposium on Catecholamines and Other Neurotransmitters in Stress, Smolenice, Czechoslovakia, 6/1991

Invited presentation, “Stress and hypertension: Is there a sympathoadrenal link?” Annual meeting, The Pavlovian Society of North America, Baltimore, MD 9/1991

Co-chairperson, Scientific Sessions, Second International Conference on the Shy-Drager Syndrome, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 10/1991

Invited lecture, “Catecholaminergic systems, stress, and cardiovascular disease. FAES, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 10/1991

Invited lecture, “Stress and the Heart,” Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 11/1991

Neurology Grand Rounds: “Heartstrings: Neurocardiology as a New Discipline in Medicine,” NINDS, NIH, 1/1992.

Chairperson and invited lecturer, symposium, “Sympathetic Activity and Essential Hypertension,” 7th International Catecholamine Symposium, Amersterdam, The Netherlands, 6/1992.

Invited presentation, “F-18 dopamine as a neuronal marker in the heart,” Institute for Clinical PET, Fourth International PET Conference & Research Symposium,” Washington, DC, 10/1992.

Invited presentation, “New clinical techniques to assess regional sympathoneural activity,” Third International Symposium on Autonomic Disorders, Nashville, TN, 10/1992.

Invited presentation, “Clinical applications of catecholamine levels,” Research Conference, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 12/1992.

 

Invited lecture, “Stress as a scientific idea,” National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2/1993.

Invited speaker, “Cardiac neuroimaging with PET,” Cardiology Department, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, 2/1993.

Neurology Grand Rounds, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, 3/1993.

Invited lecture, “Stress and science,” Biological Psychiatry Branch, NIMH, 4/1993.

Invited speaker, “Biochemical assessment of sympathetic nervous system activity,” NHLBI Workshop, Clinical Neurobiology of Blood Pressure Regulation, Bethesda, MD, 6/1993.

Invited speaker, “Sympathetic nervous system and hypertension,” Israeli Society of Internal Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel, 6/1993.

Invited lecture, “Is there a third peripheral catecholaminergic system,” Department of Pharmacology, The Rappaport Faculty of Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel, 7/1993.

Invited seminar leader, “Stress as a scientific idea,” Department of Psychiatry, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Ha-Shomer, Israel, 7/1993.

Invited lecture, “Clinical PET scanning of cardiac sympathetic innervation and function,” Department of Neurology, Division of Cerebrovascular Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 12/1993.

 

Invited participant, “Mind-Body-Health Interactions,” MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions, Clearwater, FL, 2/1994.

Invited lecture, “Stress, catecholamines, and psychosomatic medicine,” Division of Behavioral Biology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, 2/1994.

Invited lecture, “Stress, catecholamines, and cardiovascular disease: theoretical and practical issues,” Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal, Montreal, Canada, 5/1994.

Invited lecture, “A homeostatic theory of stress and distress,” The CIANS/ISBM Conference on Stress and Behavioural Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, 7/1994.

Invited lectures, “Anatomical and functional visualization of cardiac sympathetic innervation in humans,” and “Stress as a scientific idea,” Leiden Working Group on Cardiovascular Research, Leiden, The Netherlands, 7/1994.

Invited lecture, “PET scanning of cardiac sympathetic innervation and function,” University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 7/1994.

Invited lecture, “PET scanning of cardiac sympathetic innervation and function,” Hadassah Hospital, Ein Karem, Israel, 7/1994.

Invited lecture, “PET scanning of cardiac sympathetic innervation and function,” Beilinson Hospital, Petach Tikve, Israel, 7/1994.

Invited lecture, “Catecholamines and sympathetic activity in clinical and experimental hypertension,” Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Ha-Shomer, Israel, 7/1994.

Invited lecture, “Using PET to access cardiac sympathetic innervation and function,” NIH Research Festival ‘94 Symposia, 9/1994.

Invited lecture, “Fluorodopamine PET scanning: The good, the bad, and the ugly,” PET Department, NIH Clinical Center, 9/1994.

Invited lecture, “Clinical assessment of sympathetic responses to stress,” First World Congress on Stress, Bethesda, MD, 10/1994.

Invited lecture, “Neuronal and non-neuronal sources of dopamine in the periphery,” 5th International Conference on Peripheral Dopamine, Kyoto, Japan, 10/1994.

Invited lecture, “PET scanning and clinical evaluation in neurocardiovascular disorders,” Cardiology Department, National Naval Medical Center, 12/1994.

 

Introductory lecture, “Nonspecificity versus primitive specificity of stress responses” Sixth Symposium on Catecholamines and Other Neurotransmitters in Stress, Smolenice Castle, Czechoslovakia, 6/1995.

Invited lecture, “Stress, catecholamines, and cardiovascular disease,” Sixth Symposium on Catecholamines and Other Neurotransmitters in Stress, Smolenice Castle, Czechoslovakia, 6/1995.

 

Clinical Center Grand Rounds, “PET and neurochemical findings in patients with dysautonomia,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 1/1996.

Invited lecture, “Metabolic fate of the sympathoneural imaging agent 6-[18F]fluorodopamine in humans,” Sixth International Conference on Peripheral Dopamine, Camerino, Italy, 6/1996.

Invited lecture, “The sympathetic nervous and adrenomedullary hormonal systems: Differential responses to stressors,” The Neuroscience and Endocrinology of Fibromyalgia, National Institues of Health, Bethesda, MD, 7/1996.

Clinical Center Grand Rounds, “Heartstrings: Visualizing sympathetic innervation and function in patients with neurocardiologic disorders,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 6/1997.

NINDS Clinical Grand Rounds, “Clinical diagnosis of sympathetic neurocirculatory failure,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 9/1997.

 

Clinical Center Grand Rounds, “Molecular and Integrative Medicine: Toward Rapprochement,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 1/1998.

Lecture, “The third catecholamine system: Sources of dopamine in the human kidney,” Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 3/1998.

Lecture, “Neurogenic autonomic nervous system dysfunction,” Neuroscience Nurse Internship Program, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 3/1998.

NINDS Clinical Grand Rounds, “The tendency to faint: Cardiac sympathoinhibition in patients with neurocardiogenic syncope,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 8/1998.

Invited oral presentation, “Sources and physiological significance of plasma dopamine sulfate.” Seventh International Conference on Peripheral Dopamine, Dublin, Ireland, 8/1998.

Invited lecture, “Primitive specificity  of stress  responses:  Clinical demonstrations.” Second World Congress on Stress, Melbourne, Australia, 10/1998.

Invited lecture, “Structural and chemical organization of the autonomic neuroeffector system,” WHO Informal Meeting on the Autonomic Nervous System, Bethesda, MD, 12/1998.

 

NINDS Clinical Grand Rounds, “A new sign of sympathetic neurocirculatory failure,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 3/1999.

Clinical Center Grand Rounds, “Clinical sympathetic neuroimaging,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 4/1999.

Symposium Oral Presentation, “Cardiac sympathetic innervation and function in patients with sympathetic neurocirculatory failure and Parkinsonism,” American Academy of Neurology, Toronto, Canada, 4/1999.

Invited lecture, FAES course, Neuroimmunology, “Catecholamines and stress,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 3/1999.

Anesthesiology Grand Rounds, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, “Clinical sympathetic neuroimaging,” Baltimore, MD, 4/1999.

Symposium Oral Presentation, “Cardiac sympathetic denervation in Parkinson's disease,” Association for Patient Oriented Research, Atlantic City, NJ, 4/1999.

NINDS Clinical Grand Rounds, “Cardiac sympathoinhibition in Parkinson’s disease,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 5/1999.

Invited lecture, “Autonomic failure syndromes.” Neuroscience Nursing Internship Program, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 6/1999.

Invited lecture, “Stressor specific activation of catecholaminergic systems: Clinical demonstrations.” Seventh Symposium on Catecholamines and Other Neurotransmitters in Stress, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, 7/1999.

NINDS Clinical Grand Rounds, “Sympathetic innervation and function in reflex sympathetic dystrophy,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 8/1999.

Clinical Staff Conference, NIH Clinical Center, “Recent advances in genetics, diagnosis, localization, and treatment of pheochromocytoma,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 9/1999.

Symposium Oral Presentation, “Cardiac sympathetic denervation in Parkinson's disease,” American Autonomic Society, Hawaii, 10/1999.

Invited lecture, FAES course, PET Scanning, “Neurocardiology and the sympathetic nervous system,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 12/1999.

 

Invited lecture, “Clinical Laboratory Evaluation of Autonomic Failure Syndromes,” Israel Society of Internal Medicine, Kfar Hamacabiah, Israel, 3/2000.

NINDS Clinical Grand Rounds, “Concepts of integrative medicine: Applications to neurocardiologic disorders,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 3/2000.

Invited lecture, “Cardiac sympathetic denervation in Parkinson’s disease,” PET Department, NIH Clinical Center, 3/2000.

Invited lecture, “Cardiac sympathetic denervation in Parkinson’s disease,” Second Annual Meeting, Association for Patient-Oriented Research, Arlington, VA, 3/2000.

Seminar, “Catecholamines and stress,” Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences course, Neuroimmunology, Bethesda, Maryland, 4/2000.

Lecture, “Autonomic nervous system disorders,” Neuroscience Nurse Internship Program, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 4/2000.

Invited lecture, “PET and neurochemical approaches to examine sympathetic innervation and function in the human heart: Clinical applications in neurocardiological disorders,” Cardiovascular Science Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 5/2000.

Moderator, Clinical Staff Conference, NIH Clinical Center, “Tugged Heartstrings: Dysautonomias,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 5/2000.

Invited lecture, “Stressor specificity of neuroendocrine responses: Clinical demonstrations.” Third World Congress on Stress, Dublin, Ireland, 9/2000.

Seminar, “Kinetic model for the fate of 6-[18F]fluorodopamine in the human heart: A novel means to assess cardiac sympathetic function,” NIH PET Department, 10/2000.

How-to Session, “Evaluation of orthostatic hypotension,” American Heart Association, New Orleans, LA, 11/2000.

Lecture, “Neurocardiology,” FAES Course on Positron Emission Tomography: Principles and Applications, NIH, 11/2000.

 

Lecture, “Recent advances in the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma,” Department of Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Ha-Shomer, Israel, 1/2001

Lecture, “What do plasma catechols mean?” New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, 1/2001

Lecture, “PET scanning of cardiac sympathetic innervation and function in neurocardiologic disorders” New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, 1/2001

NINDS Clinical Grand Rounds, “What do plasma catechols mean?” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 1/2001

Invited lecture, “Neurocardiology,” Department of Neurology, VA Medical Center, Washington, DC, 2/2001

Seminar, “Catecholamines and stress,” Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences course, Neuroimmunology, Bethesda, Maryland, 2/2001.

NINDS Clinical Grand Rounds, “Why people faint: Sympathoadrenal imbalance as the proximate cause of neurocardiogenic syncope.” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 4/2001

Faculty, Evaluation and Management of Autonomic Disorders, 2001 Annual Meeting, American Academy of Neurology, Philadelphia, PA, 5/2001.

Invited seminars, “Stress and the sympathoadrenal system: New ideas about old ideas.” Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branch, NIMH, 6-7/2001.

Chair, “Regulation of blood pressure in health and disease.” Central Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Control—Integrative, Cellular and Molecular Aspects (Satellite of IUPS 2001), Sydney, Australia, 8/2001.

Seminar, “People who faint: Cardiac sympathetic innervation in neurocardiogenic syncope.” NIH PET Department, Bethesda, MD, 10/2001.

Invited lecture, “Stress, the autonomic nervous system, and the inner world.” NINDS lecture series, “Unraveling Mysteries of the Brain.” Bethesda, MD, 11/2001.

NINDS Clinical Grand Rounds, “Dysautonomia in Parkinson’s disease.” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 12/2001.

Invited lecture, “Dysautonomia in Parkinson’s disease.” Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Ha-Shomer, and Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikve, Israel, 12/2001.

 

Seminar, “Stress, the automatic nervous system, and the inner world,” FAES course, Neuroimmunology, Bethesda, Maryland, 2/2002.

Invited Expert, “Biological Mechanisms of Psychosocial Effects of Disease,” Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI, Bethesda, MD, 2/2002.

Clinical Endocrinology Grand Rounds, “Stress as a Scientific Idea,” NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 4/2002.

Clinical Center Grand Rounds, “Dysautonomia in Parkinson’s Disease,” NIH, Bethesda, MD, 5/2002.

Invited lecture, “Sources of NE and its metabolites in accessible tissues in humans.” XXIII Congress of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum. Montreal, Canada, 6/2002.

Neurology Grand Rounds, “Dysautonomia in Parkinson’s Disease,” VA Medical Center, Washington, DC, 7/2002.

Invited Lectures, “The autonomic nervous system and dysautonomias” and “Neurotransmitters,” Second Patient Conference, National Dysautonomia Research Foundation, Washington, DC, 7/2002

Seminar, “A syndrome of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension, cardiac sympathetic denervation, and subtle parkinsonism.” PET Interest Group, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 9/2002.

Invited Lecture, “Dysautonomia in familial Parkinson’s disease,” NIH Workshop, Inherited Dysuautonomias, Bethesda, MD, 10/2002.

Invited Lectures, “The autonomic nervous system and cardiovascular regulation,” and “Disorders of autonomic regulation of the cardiovascular system,” Saul Farber Distinguished Lectureship, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Israel, 10/2002.

Medical Grand Rounds, “Why people faint,” Rambam Hospital, Haifa, 10/2002.