Cardiology.org : About Cardiology.org

Home / About Cardiology.org Lab Locations

The clinical exercise physiology consortium (Dr Myers, Dr Ashley and Dr Froelicher) is located at five sites, three at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center (PAVAMC) and two at the Stanford University Campus: 1) Cardiology Department at the VA Hospital (PAVAMC, Bldg 101); 2) Exercise Training Unit (PAVAMC, Bldg 51); 3) Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Unit (PAVAMC, Bldg 6); 4) Stanford Sports Medicine Human Performance Laboratory (Arrellaga Recreation Bldg, 531 Galvez Ave, Stanford Campus), 5) Stanford Medical Center Exercise Testing Laboratory and Cardiomyopathy Clinic.

Statistical and Data Management Core Site

Rest and exercise ECG data management

Computerization of data gathering

Data analysis, reporting, biostatistical analysis and publications

Hardware and Software Evaluation

Computerized ECG analysis and expired gas analysis

Educational Services

Dr Ashley is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and directs the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic.

He graduated in Physiology and Medicine from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, before completing his residency at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England. He was awarded a prestigious Wellcome trust award to join the clinician-scientist PhD program in Molecular Cardiology at the University of Oxford.

He later moved to Stanford to work with Tom Quertermous as a Donald W Reynolds fellow. After completing Cardiology fellowship at Stanford University, he joined the faculty in 2006 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine.

His research is both mechanistic, currently focused on apelin-APJ signaling in heart failure, systems based, reflecting an integrative approach to high dimensional biology, and translational, with studies ranging from the development of novel genetic tools for cardiomyopathy to clinical studies in heart failure and exercise physiology.

Top of Page

He has been performing research, teaching, and writing in regard to exercise testing and training for over 20 years. His research interests have focused on the areas of cardiopulmonary exercise testing, execise training in chronic heart failiure, epidemiology related to exercise test response and physical activity patterns, and cardiovascular health in spinal cord injury. He has conducted more than 100 workshops and consulted with manufacturers across the United States and Europe.

In conjunction with Dr. Froelicher, he has published extensively in the areas of exercise physiology, exercise testing, and exercise training. Together. they co-authored a leading textbook on exercise, "Exercise and the Heart, Clinical Concepts". He has authored or co-authored guidelines on exercise testing and related topics for numerous organizations, including the American Heart Association, American Thoracic Society, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the european working group on exercise physiology and rehailitation.

Presently, he manages day-to day research activities in the Cardiology department at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and is coordinator for the Cardiology exercise laboratory. He is a clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University, and a consultant to the Stanford Sports Medicine program.

In addition to a variety of clinical, research, and teaching activities at Stanford and the VA, he keeps himself busy performing statistical and database management.

In addition to consulting with US firms, he frequently consults with foreign groups on data management and statistics. Over the years, he has been involved with research groups from Switzerland, Germany, Norway, South America, Italy, Japan and Canada, and published papers related to exercise testing and training with all of them.

Top of Page

A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School in 1967, Victor F. Froelicher obtained his internship and internal medicine training at Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center. He then pursued his fellowship in cardiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with T.J. Reeves. While at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Dr. Froelicher published numerous works related to exercise physiology and early screening for coronary artery disease in healthy aviators. His angiographic and follow up studies of aviators were critical to the understanding of silent ischemia and the application of Baysian statistics and predictive modeling to diagnostic tests.

After eleven years of service in the U.S. Air Force, he joined the faculty at the University of California at San Diego. At UCSD he was the principal investigator of the NIHLBI randomized trial of cardiac rehabilitation called PERFEXT(PERfusion PerFormance EXercise Trial.

In 1980, he was the co-founding editors for the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. From 1984 to 1992, Dr. Froelicher was Chief of Cardiology at the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Assistant Chief at the University of California, Irvine. At the Long Beach VA, he performed the largest outcomes study in the VA of coronary artery disease. He was the co-principal investigator of a Veterans Affairs cooperative multicenter study of exercise testing and angiography called QUEXTA (QUantitative EXercise Testing and Angiography).

In addition to writing several textbooks, Dr. Froelicher has participated in developing exercise testing guidelines for numerous organizations including the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine. He has co-authored over 300 papers, serves on numerous editorial boards and reviews for many of the major medical journals.

In 1995 he was chosen for the "Best Doctors in the U.S." book and since 1997 has been chosen as a "Best Doctor" in the "Pacific Region" and in Silicon Valley. He is cardiologist to the Stanford athletes and participates in the Stanford Sports medicine program. He has just entered his 35th year in Government service

More About Dr. Froelicher

Top of Page

Read the original here:
Cardiology.org : About Cardiology.org