Name: Wanpen Vongpatanasin, M.D.
Academic Title: Associate Professor
Primary Appointment: Internal Medicine
Secondary Appointment: Internal Medicine - Hypertension and Cardiology

Board Certifications:
American Board of Internal Medicine
Cardiovascular disease
Hypertension Specialist

Professional Associations / Affiliations:
American Heart Association
American College of Cardiology
American College of Physician
American Society of Hypertension
American Physiological Society

Laboratory Interest:

Dr. Vongpatanasin's research interest is in the area of neural control of blood pressure and the influence of various hormones and antihypertensive agents on the autonomic control of blood pressure in humans. Her laboratory has performed autonomic studies in both normal healthy subjects and patients with hypertension or autonomic dysfunction.


Personnel:

Muhammad "Salman" Ali Ashraf, M.D. - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dileep Menon, M.D. - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Zhongyun Wang, M.D. - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Debbie A. Arbique, R.N. - Research Nurse

Publications in the past 5 years:

1. Abate NI, Mansour YH, Tuncel M, Arbique D, Chavoshan B, Kizilbash A, Howell-Stampley T, Vongpatanasin W, Victor RG. Overweight and Sympathetic Overactivity in Black Americans. Hypertension  2001;38:379-383.

2. Vongpatanasin W, Tuncel M, Mansour Y, Debbie Arbique, Victor RG. Transdermal estrogen replacement therapy decreases sympathetic activity in postmenopausal women. Circulation 2001;103: 2903-2908.

3. Tuncel  M, Wang Z, Arbique D, Fadel  PJ, Victor RG, Vongpatanasin W. Mechanism of the blood pressure-raising effect of cocaine in humans. Circulation 2002;105:1054-9.

4. Crandall CG, Vongpatanasin W, Victor RG. Mechanism of cocaine-induced hyperthermia  in humans. Ann Intern Med 2002;136:785-791.

5. Szczepaniak LS, Dobbins RL, Metzger GJ, Sartoni-D'Ambrosia G,  Arbique D, Vongpatanasin W, Unger R, Victor RG. Myocardial Triglycerides and Systolic Function in Humans: in vivo Evaluation by Localized Proton Spectroscopy and Cardiac Imaging. Magn Reson Med 2003;49:417-423.

6. Barman S, Fadel  PJ, Vongpatanasin  W,  Victor RG. Gebber G. Basis for the Cardiac-Related Rhythm in Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity of Humans. Am J Physiol  2003;284:H584-97.

7. Vongpatanasin W, Tuncel M, Wang Z, Arbique D, Mehrad B, Jialal I. Differential Effects of Oral vs. Transdermal estrogen Replacement Therapy on C-reactive Protein in Postmenopausal Women. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;41:1358-63.

8. Fadel PJ, Wang Z, Tuncel M, Watanabe H, Abbas A, Arbique D, Vongpatanasin W, Haley RW, Victor RG, Thomas GD. Metaboreflex activation of muscle sympathetic nerve discharge during static exercise is severely impaired with myophosphorylase deficiency. J Physiol London 2003; 548: 983-993.

9. Vongpatanasin W, Taylor JA, Victor RG. Cocaine and Heart Rate Variability: A Cautionary Note about High Frequency Power as a Measure of Cardiac Vagal Activity. Am J Cardiol 2004 93:385-388.

10. Haley RW, Vongpatanasin W, Wolfe GI, Bryan WW, Armitage R, Hoffmann RF, Callahan TS, Charuvastra E,  Shell WE, Marshall WW, Victor RG. Blunted Circadian Variation in Autonomic Regulation of Sinus Node Function in Veterans with Gulf War Syndrome. Am J Med 2004;117:469-478.

11. Abbas A, Fadel P, Wang Z, Arbique D, Abbas A, Jialal  I, Vongpatanasin W. Contrasting Effects of Oral vs. Transdermal estrogen Replacement Therapy on Serum Amyloid A (SAA) and HDL-SAA in Postmenopausal Women. Art Throm Vasc Biol 2004;24:e164-7.

12. Fadel PJ, Wang Z, Watanabe H, Arbique D, Vongpatanasin W, Thomas GD.  Augmented sympathetic vasoconstriction in exercising forearms of postmenopausal women is reversed by oestrogen therapy. J Physiol. 2004 561:893-901.

13. Khera A, McGuire DK, Murphy SA, Stanek HG, Das SR, Vongpatanasin W, Wians FH Jr, Grundy SM, de Lemos JA.  Race and gender differences in C-reactive protein levels.  J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005;46:464-9.