Expertise

CVI:

Director, Noninvasive Imaging

CVI Program Unit(s):
Cardiovascular Development / Congenital Heart Disease
Biotechnology / Nanomedicine / Imaging

CVI Research Description:
My longstanding interests is in using cardiovascular imaging to investigate left ventricular remodeling. This has involved using Doppler echocardiography in large clinical trials accessing the efficacy of pharmaceutical interventions (ACE inhibitors and beta blockers post infarction) and the role of devices including epicardial and endocardial restraint. More recently I am studying the role of cardiac resynchronization and reverse remodeling with advanced heart failure (MIRACLE, MIRACLE ICD, BLOCK-HF and REVERSE Trials).

I also direct the quantitative echocardiographic core laboratory in a number of additional clinical trials that have involved quantitative imaging.

ITMAT:

Dr. Fisher is interested in the management of brain tumors and tumors related to neurofibromatosis type 1 and in new imaging modalities for evaluation of plexiform neurofibromas and brain tumors.

Appointments

• Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2012 – present)
• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2003 – 2012)
• John W. Bryfogle Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1993 – present)
• Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1980 – 1984)

Education

• M.D., Harvard Medical School (cum Laude) (1994)
• FRCP, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK (1993)
• FESC, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (1991)
• B.A., Psychology, Summa cum Laude, Amherst College (1989)
• FACC, American College of Cardiology (1984)
• MRCP, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK (1973)
• MBBS, Guys Hospital Medical School, London, UK (1970)
• BSc, Guys Hospital Medical School, London, UK (1967)