Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin
DOUGLAS C RUSSELL
Contact Information
2500 OVERLOOK TERR
MADISON, WI 53705
Biography
Chief, VA Cardiology Section
Douglas Russell received a master's degree in physiology and pharmacology from Christ's College, Cambridge, England in 1966 and an MBBChir from the University of Cambridge and Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London, England in 1969. He pursued his residency at Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, London, England between 1970-1973. His cardiology fellowship was done at London Chest Hospital and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh from 1973-1978.
Russell received a doctorate in cardiac electrophysiology from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1978 and completed research fellowships from the British Heart Foundation in the Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of Edinburgh from 1977-1989. He served on the faculty at the University of Virginia from 1989-1997 where he was the program director of the cardiovascular fellowship program. Russell joined the faculty at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital and Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997 as Professor of Medicine and VA Cardiology Section Chief.
His research interests focus on metabolic and electrophysiologic mechanisms of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death; noninvasive prediction of sudden cardiac death using heart rate variability and T wave alternans techniques; myocardial metabolic imaging in heart failure; clinical trials in managing heart failure, atrial fibrillation and ischemic heart disease; and psychological stress nuclear cardiac imaging. He has more than 60 original publications.
Russell has served as the Assistant Program Director (VA Hospital) University of Wisconsin-Madison Fellowship Program in Cardiovascular Disease since 1997 and has been involved in teaching UW medical students and internal medicine residents. He has been a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Scholar, Christ's College, Cambridge; Young Research Worker award, British Cardiac Society; and Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Russell has received major research grants in the UK from the Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation and various pharmaceutical companies; and in the US from the VA Merit Review Program, VA Co-op Studies Clinical Trials Programs and the Templeton Foundation. He is principal investigator on several industry-supported clinical trials.
Search for Douglas Russell's literature abstracts on PubMed
Shanoudy H, Soliman A, Moe S, Hadian D, Veldhuis JD, Iranmanesh A, Russell DC. Early manifestations of 'sick euthyroid' syndrome in patients with compensated chronic heart failure. J Card Fail 2001; 7(2):146-52.
Wallhaus TR, Taylor M, DeGrado TR, Russell DC, Stanko P, Nickles RJ, Stone CK. Myocardial free fatty acid and glucose use after carvedilol treatment in patients with congestive heart failure. Circulation 2001; May 22;103(20):2441-6.
Wallhaus TR, Russell DC. Effects of Beta-Blockade on Myocardial Metabolism and Efficiency in Heart Failure. Harrison's Textbook of Medicine (Ed. Braunwald E). Concise Review related to E-Chapter 232, 2001.
Russell DC, Kosolcharoen P. Assessment of cardiac resynchronization therapy by quantitative gated blood pool SPECT imaging. Proceedings of 8th World Congress on Heart Failure, 2002; 429-433.