Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania
Department of Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine Division
9 Founders Pavilion
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Appointments
Contact: Sandra Camacho (215) 662-6810

Clinical Specialty:

• Cardiovascular Medicine
• Cardiac Electrophysiology

Practice Location:

• Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Founders Pavilion

Education:

• MD: New York Medical College
• Residency: North Shore University Hospital-NYU School of Medicine
• Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Research Interest:

• Mechanisms of idiopathic ventricular tachycardia
• Mechanism and ablation of atrial fibrillation
• Inappropriate sinus tachycardia

Selected Publications:

1. Lin D, Dixit S, Russo AM, and Hsia HH. Failure to Sense Ventricular Fibrillation with Inappropriate Defibrillator Sensitivity Adjustment. PACE 2004; 27:1-3.
2. Lin D, Garcia F, Jacobson J, Gerstenfeld EP, Dixit S, Verdino RJ, Callans DJ, Marchlinski FE. Use of non-contact mapping and saline cooled ablation catheter for sinus node modification in medically refractory inappropriate sinus tachycardia. PACE 2006 (in press)
3. Lin D, Hsia HH, Gerstenfeld EP, Dixit S, Callans DJ, Nayak H, Russo AM, and Marchlinski FE. Idiopathic Fascicular Left Ventricular Tachycardia: Linear Ablation Lesion Strategy for Noninducible or Nonsustained Tachycardia. Heart Rhythm 2005; Vol 2, No 9: 934-939.
4. Hsia HH, Lin D, Sauer WH, Callans DJ, and Marchlinski FE. Anatomic characterization of endocardial substrate for hemodynamically stable reentrant ventricular tachycardia: Identification of endocardial conducting channels. Heart Rhythm 2006; Vol 3, No 5: 503-512.
5. Ren JF, Lin D, Patel V, Marchlinski FE, Callans DJ. Esophageal Imaging and Strategies for Avoiding Injury During Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation. Heart Rhythm 2006;3:1156-116
6. David Lin and David J. Callans. Sinus Rhythm Abnormalities. In Zipes DP, Jalife J (eds): Cardiac Electrophysiology. Chapter 52, p479-484. From cell to bedside. Philadelphia, WB Saunders 4th edition 2004
7. F.E. Marchlinski, D. Lin, S. Dixit, J. Jacobson, W. Sauer, M. McKernan, J.F. Ren. Ventricular Tachycardia from the Aortic Cusps: Localization and Ablation. In Cardiac Arrhythmias 2003, Ed. A. Raviele, Springer-Verlag Italia. pp 357-370.
8. F.E. Marchlinski, D. Lin, H. Nayak, A.M. Russo, H. Hsia, S. Dixit, E. Gerstenfeld, D. Callans, W. Pulliam, S. Siddique, S. Del Castillo, E. Zado. Ablation of Unstable Ventricular Tachycardia. In Cardiac Arrhythmias 2003, Ed. A. Raviele, Springer-Verlag Italia. pp 433-450
9. David Lin and Francis E. Marchlinski. Advances in Ablation Therapy for Complex Arrhythmias: Atrial Fibrillation and Ventricular Tachycardia. Current Cardiology Reports. 2003, 5:407-414.
10. David Lin and David J. Callans. Non-sustained VT during Exercise Testing: Causes and Workup. ACC Current Journal Review Nov-Dec 2003; 57-63.