Director, Outpatient Cardiology
Associate Professor of Medicine

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Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania
Department of Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine Division
8 Penn Tower
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Appointments
Contact: Geri McCausland (215) 662-2460

Clinical Specialty:

• Cardiovascular Medicine

Practice Location:

• Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, 8 Penn Tower
• Penn Medicine at Radnor

Education:

• MD: Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY
• Internship: University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, Chicago, IL
• Residency: St. Luke's Hospital Center, New York, NY
• Fellowship: Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
• Research Fellowship: Columbia University, New York, NY

Research Interest:

• Nuclear Cardiology
• Diseases of the Aorta

Selected Publications:

1. Blood DK, McCarthy DM, Sciacca RR, Cannon PJ: Comparison of single-dose and double-dose thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for the detection of coronary artery disease and prior myocardial infarction. Circulation 1978; 58: 777-788.
2. McCarthy DM, Blood DK, Sciacca RR, Cannon PJ: Single-dose myocardial perfusion imaging with thallium-201: Application in patients with non-diagnostic electrocardiographic stress tests. Am J Cardiol 1979; 43: 899-906.
3. Johnson LL, McCarthy DM, Sciacca RR, Cannon PJ: Right ventricular ejection fraction during exercise in patients with coronary artery disease. Circulation 1979; 60: 1284-1291.
4. McCarthy DM, Sciacca RR, Blood DK, Cannon PJ: Discriminant function analysis using thallium-201 scintiscans and exercise stress test variables to predict the presence and extent of coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol 1982; 49: 1917-1926.
5. Spielman SR, Schwartz JS, McCarthy DM, et al: Predictors of the success or failure of medical therapy in patients with chronic recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia: a discriminant analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol 1983; 1: 401-408.
6. Makler PT Jr, McCarthy DM, Velchik MG, Goldstein HA, Alavi A: Fourier amplitude ratio: a new way to assess valvular regurgitation. J Nucl Med 1983; 242: 204-207.
7. McFarland TM, McCarthy DM, Makler PT Jr, Josephson ME: Relation between site of origin of ventricular tachycardia and relative left ventricular myocardial perfusion and wall motion. Am J Cardiol 1983; 51: 1329-1333.
8. McCarthy DM: Exercise Testing in Women. (Editorial) Int J Cardiol 1984; 5: 727-729.
9. McCarthy DM: Coronary angioplasty: A clinician's viewpoint. (Review) Clin Ther 1990; 12: 82-87.
10. McCarthy DM: "Evaluation of Dyspnea" in Contemporary Cardiology; Heart Failure: A Clinician's Guide to Ambulatory Diagnosis and Management, ML Jessup and E Loh (eds.), Humana Press, Totowa NJ: 2003, pp. 25-35.