Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group, Inc.

Co-Director, East Bay Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Center

Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group, Inc. East Bay Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology Center

365 Hawthorne Avenue, Suite 201
Oakland, California 94609
Telephone: (510) 452-1345

2540 East Street
Concord, California 94520
Telephone: (510) 452-1345

20126 Stanton Avenue, Suite 100
Castro Valley, California 94546
Telephone: (510) 537-3556

106 La Casa Via, Suite 140
Walnut Creek, California 94598
Telephone: (925) 274-2860

5201 Norris Canyon Road, Suite 220
San Ramon, California 94583
Telephone: (925) 277-1900

1976 B.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Major - Biology/Biochemistry
Minor Field - Humanities

1980 M.D. University of California, San Francisco,
School of Medicine

1980 - 1983 University of California, San Francisco, Moffitt and Affiliated Hospitals, Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine

1983 - 1985 Research and Clinical Fellow, Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

1984 - 1986 Research Fellow in Medicine (Cardiology), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

1985 - 1986 Clinical Fellow, Percutaneous Transluminal
Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

1984 - 1986 Clinical Fellow, Electrophysiology and Permanent Pacemakers; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

1982 California Medical License (G 46760)
1982 United States DEA # AL 1597826
1983 Massachusetts Medical License (5l434)
1983 Massachusetts Controlled Substance Certificate (ML 0306349)
1983 American Board of Internal Medicine (091159)
1983 Advanced Cardiac Life Support
1985 American Board of Cardiology (board certified)

1985 Associate Physician, Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

1986 Staff Cardiologist, Summit Medical Center, Oakland, CA
Staff Cardiologist, Mt. Diablo Medical Center, Concord, CA
Staff Cardiologist, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, CA
Staff Cardiologist, San Ramon Regional Medical Center,
San Ramon, CA
Staff Cardiologist, San Leandro Hospital, San Leandro, CA
Staff Cardiologist, Eden Medical Center, Castro Valley, CA

1989 Director, East Bay Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Center

1991 Director, Mt. Diablo Cardiac Electrophysiology and Ablation Program

1998 Director, Summit Medical Center Electrophysiology Services

1984 Courtesy Staff, Choate-Memorial Hospital, Woburn, MA

1985 Principal Investigator and Director, Bepridil in the Treatment of Silent Ischemia Study (BASIS), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

1985-1986 Cardiovascular Consultant, Cardiovascular Education
Program, Competence Assurance Systems, Cambridge, MA

1986 Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

1992 Member, Third Party Reimbursement Committee, California Chapter
American College of Cardiology

1992 - 1999 Member, Government Relations Committee, North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology

1992 California Cardiology Representative for Carrier Advisory Committee

1993 - 1998 District Councilor, California Region II, American College of Cardiology

1994 - 1999 Cardiology Representative for 5-Year Medicare Fee Schedule Review

1972-1976 Highest Honors General Chemistry; Letters and Science Honors Program; Deans Honor Lists; Honors -Directed Individual Research
Honors - Undergraduate Thesis Research; Department of Biology and Letters and Science Graduation Honors

1976-1978 Preclinical Coursework Honors -Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biostatistics, Development and Reproduction, Pharmacology, Physiology

1978-1980 Clinical Clerkship Honors - Cardiology, Clinical Pharmacology, ENT, Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Renal, Surgery

1979 Alpha Omega Alpha
1982 Housestaff Outstanding Teaching Award
1988 Fellow in American College of Cardiology
1991 Testamur, North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology Exam (NASPE Exam)

1978 U.C.S.F. Sutro Society (a forum of medical research)
1979 Alpha Omega Alpha
1980 American Association for the Advancement of Science
1981 American Medical Association
1981 American Heart Association
1984 American College of Physicians
1984 American College of Cardiology
1986 North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE)

1. Brown JK, Ludmer PL. New and old concepts in sarcoidosis. Western J Med 1983;138:546-551.

2. Goldschlager N, Ludmer PL. Dual chamber pacing systems. American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology 1984; 10(1):1-15.

3. Ludmer PL, Goldschlager N. Dual chamber pacing in the 1980s. N Engl J Med 1984; 311:1671-1680.

4. Ludmer PL, Wright RF, Arnold JMO, Ganz P, Braunwald E, Colucci WS. Separation of the direct myocardial and vasodilator actions of milrinone: studies utilizing an intracoronary infusion technique. Circulation l986;73(1):130-137.

5. Arnold JMO, Ludmer PL, Wright RF, Ganz P, Braunwald E,Colucci WS. Role of reflex sympathetic withdrawal in the hemodynamic response to an increased inotropic state in
patients with severe heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 1986; 8(2):413-418.

6. Colucci WS, Ludmer PL, Arnold JMO, Wright RF, Ganz P, Braunwald E. Myocardial and vascular actions of intracoronary versus intravenous milrinone. Trans Am Assoc
Physicians 1986.

7. Ludmer PL, Smith TW. Cardiac emergency: digitalis toxicity. Cardiovascular Medicine 1986.

8. Ludmer PL, Smith TW. Digitalis toxicity: recognition and management. Hospital Practice 1986;7:1-5.

9. Antman EM, Ludmer PL, Friedman PL. Clinical applications of transtelephonic ECG transmission. Clin Prog Electrophys & Pace 1986; 4(2):168-174.

10. Antman EM, Ludmer PL, McGowan N, Bosak M, Friedman PL. Transtelephonic electrocardiographic transmission for management of cardiac arrhythmias. Am J Cardiol 1986;58:1021-1024.

11. Colucci WS, Leatherman GF, Ludmer PL, Gauthier DF. Beta-adrenergic inotropic responsiveness of patients with heart failure; studies with intracoronary dobutamine infusion. Circ Res 1987.

12. Colucci WS, Ludmer PL, Rocco MB, Gauthier D. Complementary positive inotropic and hemodynamic effects of dobutamine and milrinone administered by intracoronary infusion to patients with severe heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 1987.

13. Ludmer PL, Selwyn AP, Shook TL, Wayne RR, Mudge GH, Alexander RW, Ganz P. Paradoxical vasoconstriction induced by acetylcholine in atherosclerotic coronary arteries. N Engl J Med 1986;315:1046-51.

14. Muller JE, Ludmer PL, Willich SN, Tofler GH, Aylmer G, Klangos I, Stone PH. Circadian variation in the frequency of sudden cardiac death. Circulation 1987; 75(1):131-138.

15. Colucci WS, Ludmer PL, Rocco MB, Braunwald E. Complementary inotropic and hemodynamic effects of intracoronary dobutamine and milrinone. Trans Am Assoc Physicians 1987.

16. Ludmer PL, Baim DS, Antman EM, Gauthier MB, Rocco MB, Friedman PL, Colucci WS. Effects of milrinone on complex ventricular arrhythmias in patients with congestive heart failure secondary to ischemic or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol 1987; 59(15):1351-1355.

17. Ludmer PL, McGowan NE, Antman EM, Friedman PL. Efficacy of propafenone in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: Electrophysiologic findings and long-term follow-up. J Am Coll Cardiol 1987; 9:1357-3.

18. Fish RD, Nabel EG, Selwyn AP, Ludmer PL, Mudge GH, Kirshenbaum JM, Schoen FJ, Alexander RW, Ganz, P. Response of coronary arteries of cardiac transplant patients to acetylcholine. J. Clin Invest 1988; 81:21-31.

1. Goldschlager N, Ludmer P, Creamer C. Follow-up of the paced outpatient. In Clinical Cardiac Pacing, eds. Ellenbogen, Kay, Wilkoff; W.B. Saunders Co.; 1995.

2. Ludmer PL, Smith TW. Congestive Heart Failure: Digitalis Therapy. In Current Therapy in Critical Care Medicine, ed. Parrillo JE; B.C. Decker Inc.; 1987.

3. Willich SN, Czeisler CA, Tofler GH, Ludmer PL, Aylmer G,Rutherford JD, Stone PH, Muller JE. Circadian variation in the frequency of occurrence of acute cardiovascular disease. In Annual Review of Chronopharmacology (Vol. 3); Pergamon Press Ltd., Oxford; November 1986.

1. Bach PA, Ludmer PL, et al. MMWR feels the budgetary crunch. N Engl J Med 1982; 207:1019.

1. Ludmer PL, Colucci WS, Arnold JMO, Wright RF, Ganz P, Braunwald E. Direct myocardial effects of intracoronary milrinone in patients with severe heart failure. J Am Coll
Cardiol 1985; 5(2):508.

2. Colucci WS, Arnold JMO, Ludmer PL, Ganz P, Braunwald E. Vascular versus myocardial effects of intracoronary and intravenous milrinone. Clin Res l985; 33(2):595A.

3. Ludmer PL, Baim DS, Gauthier DF, Lanoue AS, Antman EM, Rocco MB, Friedman PL, Colucci WS. Effect of milrinone on complex ventricular arrhythmias in congestive heart failure. Circulation 1985; 72(4):III-405.

4. Arnold JMO, Colucci WS, Ludmer PL, Wright RF, Ganz P, Braunwald E. Reflex versus direct vascular effects of intracoronary and intravenous milrinone. Royal College
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Scientific Sessions, 1985; Clinical and Investigative Medicine; 8:A49.

5. Antman EM, Ludmer PL, Friedman PL. Clinical efficacy of telephone ECG transmission for monitoring patients with cardiac arrhythmias. 2nd International Symposium on Holter Monitoring, (Jeruselem) 1986.

6. Ludmer PL, Alymer GZ, Muller JE. Circadian rhythm of sudden cardiac death. J Am Coll Cardiol 1986; 7(2):209A.

7. Ludmer PL, Antman EM, Friedman PL. Efficacy of intravenous propafenone in patients with WPW syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol 1986; 7(2):109A.

8. Ludmer PL, Selwyn AP, Wayne RR, Mudge GH, Alexander RW, Ganz P. Impaired endothelial-dependent coronary dilation in patients with coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 1986; 7(2)209A.

9. Muller JE, Czeisler C, Tofler G, Ludmer P, Rutherford J, Stone PH. Circardian variation in the frequency of occurrence of coronary thrombosis. Second International
Conference of Chronopharmacology (Montreux, Switzerland) March, 1986.

10. Ganz P, Ludmer PL, Alexander RW, Shook TL, Wayne R, Mudge GH, Selwyn AP. Impaired endothelial-dependent coronary dilation in patients with coronary artery disease. Fourth International Symposium on "Mechanism of Vasodilatation," July, 1986.

11. Colucci WS, Ludmer PL, Rocco MB, Braunwald E. Complementary inotropic and hemodynamic effects of intracoronary dobutamine and milrinone. Clin Res 1986.

12. Arnold JMO, Ludmer PL, Colucci WS. Potentiation of vasodilator response to mental stress in severe heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 1987.

13. Arnold JMO, Ludmer PL, Colucci WS. Milrinone improves the vasodilator response to emotional stress in patients with severe heart failure. British Pharmacological Society
Meeting. December 17-19, 1986 (London, England).

14. Colucci WS, Leatherman GL, Ludmer PL, Gauthier DF. Myocardial beta-adrenergic desensitization in ambulatory heart failure patients. Circulation 1986; 74(4)II:139.

15. Ganz P, Ludmer PL, Shook TL, Wayne RR, Mudge GH, Alexander RW, Selwyn, AP. Endothelial dysfunction in patients occurs early in coronary artery disease. Circulation 1986; 74(4):II-286.

16. Calkins H, Berger R, Higgins S, Giudici M, Ludmer P, Yong Y. Fluoroscopic exposure associated with coronary venous lead placement {Abstract 184}. J Cardiac Fail 2001;7 (3 Suppl 2):51.