Melvin D. Cheitlin, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Medicine mail: San Francisco General Hospital 1001 Potrero Ave., 5G1 UCSF Box 0846 San Francisco, CA 94110 phone: (415) 206-3502 fax: (415) 206-5100 email: mellac22@comcast.net

Education

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA: B.A. 1950; M.D. 1954.
U.S. Army, Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D.C.:
     Intern 1954-55; Medical Service, Resident 1956-58;
     Cardiovascular Service, Resident 1959-60.
Medical Field Service School, Fort Sam Houston, TX: Jun-Dec 1955.

Professional Experience

University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine

• Professor of Medicine In Residence, Senate Emeritus, 1997-present.
• Professor of Medicine In Residence, 1978-97.
• Clinical Professor of Medicine, 1974-78.

San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California:

• Chief, Cardiology Division, Medical Service, 1992-97
• Associate Chief, Cardiology Division, Medical Service, 1974-91
• Acting Chief, Medical Service, 1978-80
• Vice Chairperson, Department of Medicine, 1978-79

U.S. Army, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.:

• Research Scientist, 1973-present.

U.S. Army, Consultant to the Surgeon General for Cardiovascular Disease, 1971-74.

Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.:

• Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, 1971-74.

U.S. Army Medical Corps

• Chief of Cardiology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, 1960-1964
• Chief of Cardiology, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HA, 1964-1968
• Chief of Cardiology, Letterman Army Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 1968-1971
• Chief of Cardiology, Walter Reed army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 1971-1974
• Retired from the Army 1974, Rank, Colonel

Honors & Awards

• U.S. Army Commendation Medal, 1964; 1968.
• U.S. Army "A" Prefix in Cardiology, 1971.
• U.S. Army Meritorious Service Medal, 1971.
• U.S. Army Institute of Dental Research, WRAMC, Certificate of Achievements, 1972.
• U.S. Army Legion of Merit Medal, 1974.
• Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, 1978-79.
• Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Senior Students, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986.
• Nominee, Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, 1989,1992, 1994.
• Laureate Award, Army Chapter of the American College of Physicians, 1989.
• Nominee, UCSF School of Medicine, Class of 1993, for Stimulating Lecture Series and for Outstanding Lecture, 1991.
• Nominee, UCSF School of Medicine, Class of 1996, for Outstanding Lecture Series, 1994.
• Nominee, UCSF School of Medicine, Class of 1995, for Teaching Award, 1995.
• Excellence in Teaching Award for 1994-95, Clinical Fellows of the University of California, San Francisco, 1995.
• Gifted Teachers Award, American College of Cardiology, 1995.
• Cited among Bay Area's best physicians, San Francisco Focus magazine, 1997.
• Master Award - University of Miami School of Medicine - May 1997.
• Outstanding Teacher Award 1998-1999 UCSF Cardiology Fellows.
• Awarded the title "Master of the American College of Cardiology" (MACC) - 1998.
• Awarded Distinguished Fellow 0f the Society of Geriatric Cardiology.
• Special Recognition Award - Laennec Society of the AHA Council on Clinical Cardiology - Nov,1999.
• Cardiology Faculty Special Award, Division of Cardiology, UCSF, 8 November '04

Research Interests

1. Cardiovascular involvement in AIDS. Funded by NIH. I am Principal Investigator. It looks at patients with varying stages of HIV infection and a control group, recruited as outpatients and followed clinically and by quantitative echocardiography over a period of four years. At the present time, that data has been collected and we are pursuing a long-term follow-up on the patients who had, or developed, AIDS.
2. Valvular Heart Disease- together with Drs. Barry Massie and Barry Greenberg we completed and reported the beneficial effect of afterload reduction in patients with moderate to severe aortic regurgitation. A number of papers resulted from this study.
3. At present we are studying patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation and examining the possibility that those patients with elevated "a" and "v" waves have right ventricular dysfunction whereas those with isolated elevated "v" waves have normal right ventricular filling pressure. This investigation ios ongoing.

Selected Recent Publications

Books

Gersh BJ, Cheitlin MD, Graham TP, Kaplan NM, Sundt TM III, Waldo AL. Yearbook of Cardiology 2003. Mosby. St Louis , MO

Gersh BJ, Cheitlin MD, Graham TP, Kaplan NM, Sundt TM III, Waldo AL. Yearbook of Cardiology 2004. Mosby. St Louis , MO

Book Chapters

Cheitlin MD: Aortic dissection, aneurysm and rupture. In: Wachter RM, Goldman L, Hollander H (eds): Hospital Medicine. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000. p. 329-338.

Cheitlin MD: Valve disease and infective endocarditis in The Merck Manual of Geriatrics Third Edition. Editors: Beers MH and Berkow R. Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA 2000

Cheitlin MD, Sande MA: Cardiovascular involvement in AIDS in Cardiovascular Medicine Second Edition, Editors Willerson JT and Cohn JN, Churchill Livingstone, New York, NY 2000

Cheitlin MD, Zipes DP. Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly in Heart Disease Sixth Edition, Editors Braunwald E, Zipes DP, Libby P, Saunders,Philadelphia, 2001, p2019-2037.

Cheitlin MD: AIDS and the Cardiovascular System In: Fuster V, Alexander RW, O'Rourke RA , et al. (eds): Hurst's The Heart 10th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001, p. 2033-2043.

Cheitlin MD, MacGregor JS. Acquired Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valve Disease in Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine Second ed. Phila. Lippincott Williams Wilkins, 2002, p 529-548.

Selected Recent Articles

Cheitlin MD. Congenital Heart Disease: Clinical Trials Report. Current Cardiology Reports. 2002; 4:49-53.

Cheitlin MD. A primary reader for the initiate to molecular cardiology (molecular cardiology for dummies). Cardiol Rev. 2002 Jan-Feb;10(1):34.

Cheitlin MD. Can clinical evaluation differentiate diastolic from systolic heart failure? If so, is it important? Am J Med. 2002 Apr 15;112(6):496-7.

Braunwald E, Antman E, Beasley J, Califf R, Cheitlin M, Hochman J, Jones R, Kereiakes D, Kupersmith J, Levin T, Pepine C, Schaeffer J, Smith E, Steward D, Theroux P, Gibbons R, Antman E, Alpert J, Faxon D, Fuster V, Gregoratos G, Hiratzka L, Jacobs A, Smith S. ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for the management of patients with unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction-summary article. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association task force on practice guidelines (Committee on the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina). J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002 Oct 2;40(7):1366.

Braunwald E, Antman EM, Beasley JW, Califf RM, Cheitlin MD, Hochman JS, Jones RH, Kereiakes D, Kupersmith J, Levin TN, Pepine CJ, Schaeffer JW, Smith EE 3rd, Steward DE, Theroux P, Gibbons RJ, Alpert JS, Faxon DP, Fuster V, Gregoratos G, Hiratzka LF, Jacobs AK, Smith SC Jr. ACC/AHA guideline update for the management of patients with unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction--2002: summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina). Circulation. 2002 Oct 1;106(14):1893-900.

Cheitlin MD. Cardiovascular Physiology . Changes with Aging. Am J Geriatr Cardiol 2003; 12:9-13.

Cheitlin MD. Pathophysiology of Valvular Aortic Stenosis in the Elderly . Am J Geriatr Cardiol 2003;12:173-177.

Cheitlin MD. Should the Patient With Coronary Artery Disease Use Sildenafil? Prev Cardiol 2003; 6:161-165.

Cheitlin MD. Sexual Activity and Cardiovascular Disease. Am J Cardiol 2003; 92(Suppl):3M-8M.

Cheitlin MD. Proflies in Cardiology. Elliot Rapaport. Clin Cardiol. 2003 Aug;26(8):396-7.

Cheitlin MD, Armstrong WF, Aurigemma GP, Beller GA, Bierman FZ, Davis JL, Douglas PS, Faxon DP, Gillam LD, Kimball TR, Kussmaul WG, Pearlman AS, Philbrick JT, Rakowski H, Thys DM, Antman EM, Smith SC Jr, Alpert JS, Gregoratos G, Anderson JL, Hiratzka LF, Hunt SA, Fuster V, Jacobs AK, Gibbons RJ, Russell RO; American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association; American Society of Echocardiography. ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 guideline update for the clinical application of echocardiography: summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASE Committee to Update the 1997 Guidelines for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography). Circulation. 2003 Sep 2;108(9):1146-62.

Cheitlin MD, Armstrong WF, Aurigemma GP, Beller GA, Bierman FZ, Davis JL, Douglas PS, Faxon DP, Gillam LD, Kimball TR, Kussmaul WG, Pearlman AS, Philbrick JT, Rakowski H, Thys DM. ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 guideline update for the clinical application of echocardiography--summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASE Committee to Update the 1997 Guidelines for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography). J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003 Sep 3;42(5):954-70.

Cheitlin MD, Armstrong WF, Aurigemma GP, Beller GA, Bierman FZ, Davis JL, Douglas PS, Faxon DP, Gillam LD, Kimball TR, Kussmaul WG, Pearlman AS, Philbrick JT, Rakowski H, Thys DM, Antman EM, Smith SC Jr, Alpert JS, Gregoratos G, Anderson JL, Hiratzka LF, Faxon DP, Hunt SA, Fuster V, Jacobs AK, Gibbons RJ, Russell RO; ACC; AHA; ASE. ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 Guideline Update for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography: summary article. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASE Committee to Update the 1997 Guidelines for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography). J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2003 Oct;16(10):1091-110.

Kloner RA, Brindis RG, Cheitlin MD, Kuritzky L, Miller TA, Padma-Nathan H, Rosen RC. Roundtable discussion: tadalafil study group. Am J Cardiol. 2003;92:58M-65M.

Cheitlin MD. Sexual activity and cardiovascular disease. Am J Cardiol. 2003 Nov 6;92(9A):3M-8M.

Kloner RA, Brindis RG, Cheitlin MD, Kuritzky L, Miller TA, Padma-Nathan H, Rosen RC. Roundtable discussion: tadalafil study group. Am J Cardiol. 2003 Nov 6;92(9A):58M-65M.

Cheitlin MD.Stress echocardiography in mitral stenosis: when is it useful? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;43:402-4.

Cheitlin MD. Erectile dysfunction: the earliest sign of generalized vascular disease? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004 Jan 21; 43(2): 185-6.

Popp RJ, Smith SC Jr, Adams RJ, Antman EM, Kavey RE, DeMaria AN, Ohman EM, Pitt B, Willerson JT, Bellande BJ, Fonarow GC, Nishimura RA, Shah PM, Hirshfeld JW Jr, Messer JV, Peterson ED, Prystowsky EN, Anderson JL, Cheitlin MD, Goldstein LB, Grant AO, Beller GA, Hines EF Jr, Livingston DW, McEntree CW; American College of Cardiology Foundation; American Heart Association.ACCF/AHA consensus conference report on professionalism and ethics. Circulation. 2004;110:2506-49.

Bonow RO, Zipes DP, Anderson JL, Cheitlin MD, Goldstein LB, Grant AO, Faxon D, Lima JA, Robertson RM.Task force 5: Expert testimony and opinions. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;44:1747-9.]