Ilan Wittstein, M.D.- Johns Hopkins Cardiologist
Dr.
Wittstein is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the division of
cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his B.A in Molecular Biology
and Biochemistry from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. in 1985 and his
medical degree in 1990 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He
completed his residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and
then served as Assistant Chief of Service on the Osler Medical Service. After
completing fellowship training in cardiology at Johns Hopkins where he
concentrated in heart failure and cardiac transplantation, Dr. Wittstein joined
the division of cardiology as full-time faculty in 1998. His clinical focus has
been in the areas of critical care and heart failure/transplant. His research
has included work in basic cell signaling as well as the effect of nitric oxide
on cardiac function. More recently, Dr.
Wittstein’s research has focused on the effects of emotional and physical
stress on cardiac contractile function as well as the effects of neurologic
injury on myocardial contractility. In February 2005, his manuscript in the New
England Journal of Medicine brought international attention to the poorly
recognized syndrome of Stress Cardiomyopathy (Broken Heart Syndrome), a syndrome
of acute myocardial stunning that is believed to be catecholamine mediated. He
is currently involved in both clinical and basic projects that are attempting
to define the precise pathogenesis of this syndrome. He is nationally
recognized for his work on Stress Cardiomyopathy and is an expert in the field
of stress related cardiac disease.
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