Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin
PETER KOSOLCHAROEN
Contact Information
2500 OVERLOOK TERRACE
MADISON, WI 53705
Biography
Director, Cardiac Catheterization, William S. Middleton Memorial
A member of Alpha Omega Alpha, Peter Kosolcharoen received his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School and completed his internship and internal medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Upon completing a cardiovascular fellowship at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in 1979, Kosolcharoen joined the University of Wisconsin Medical School faculty as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, becoming an Associate Professor in 1987. Kosolcharoen's clinical activities include general cardiology, cardiac catheterization and coronary angioplasty; electrophysiology including pacemaker and ICD implantation; and echocardiography. He is also involved in teaching cardiac catheterization to cardiology fellows, instructing fourth year medical students in ECG reading, and assessing the clinical skills of third year medical students. Kosolcharoen's clinical research focuses on heart failure, acute coronary syndromes and anticoagulation.
Search for Peter Kosolcharoen's literature abstracts on PubMed
Massie BM, et al for the CHF-Stat Investigators. Effect of amiodarone on clinical status and left ventricular function in patients with congestive heart failure. Circulation 1996; 93:2128-2134.
Shenker Y, Wesly J, Meranda D, Kosolcharoen P. Effect of rapid intra-atrial saline infusion on atrial pressure and atrial natriuretic hormone secretion. Horm Metab 1997; 29:33-37.
Canver C, Patel AK, Kosolcharoen P, Voytovich MC. Fungal purulent pericarditis in a heart transplant patient. Ann Thorac Surg 1998; 65:1792-1794.