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Molecular Genetics

J. Jeffrey Carr, M.S.C.E., MD

 

Professor, Radiology-Breast Imaging and Cardiovascular Imaging

Vice Chair for Clinical Research

 

Email: jcarr@wfubmc.edu

 

Education:

Vanderbilt University, B.A. 1982-1985

Vanderbilt School of Medicine, MD, 1985-1989

Wake Forest University, Epidemiology, MS,1998

North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Residency, (Diagnostic Radiology) 1990-1993

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (MRI), Fellowship, 1993-1994

 

Board Certifications:

Diagnostic Radiology, 1993

 

Research Interests:

Arteriosclerosis, Breast Cancer, Imaging Technologies, Public Health Functional Genetics

 

Recent Publications:

Fukuta H, Ohte N, Brucks S, Carr JJ, Little WC. Contribution of right-sided heart enlargement to cardiomegaly on chest roentgenogram in diastolic and systolic heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 2007 Jan 1;99(1):62-7. Epub 2006 Nov 3.

 

Lehtinen AB, Burdon KP, Lewis JP, Langefeld CD, Ziegler JT, Rich SS, Register TC, Carr JJ, Freedman BI, Bowden DW. Association of alpha2-Heremans-Schmid glycoprotein polymorphisms with subclinical atherosclerosis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Jan;92(1):345-52. Epub 2006 Oct 24.

 

Bowden DW, Lohman K, Hsu FC, Langefeld CD, Carr JJ, Lenchik L, Wagenknecht LE, Freedman BI, Herrington DM. Hormone replacement therapy is associated with increased C-reactive protein in women with Type 2 diabetes in the Diabetes Heart Study. Diabet Med. 2006 Jul;23(7):763-7.

 

Bowden DW, Rudock M, Ziegler J, Lehtinen AB, Xu J, Wagenknecht LE, Herrington D, Rich SS, Freedman BI, Carr JJ, Langefeld CD. Coincident linkage of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and measures of cardiovascular disease in a genome scan of the diabetes heart study. Diabetes. 2006 Jul;55(7):1985-94.

 

Register TC, Lenchik L, Hsu FC, Lohman KK, Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Carr JJ. Type 2 diabetes is not independently associated with spinal trabecular volumetric bone mineral density measured by QCT in the Diabetes Heart Study. Bone. 2006 Sep;39(3):628-33. Epub 2006 May 11.

 

Publications:
For a listing of additional publications,
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