Michael N. Sills, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Clinical Cardiologist and Echocardiography

Dr. Michael N. Sills, Clinical Cardiologist and Echocardiography
Dr. Michael Sills is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.

Dr. Sills is an attending cardiologist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He is currently Assistant Chief of Cardiology and the Medical Director of the non-invasive laboratory at Hunt Regional Medical Center at Greenville. His special interests include valvular heart disease (including mitral valve prolapse), congestive heart failure, adult congenital heart disease, and lipid disorders and preventive cardiology. Dr. Sills offices at CCT's Dallas clinic at the Baylor University Medical Center, and also at our Greenville clinic.

He is very active in the teaching program at the medical center for housestaff and cardiology fellows. Dr. Sills is a past board member of the American Heart Association and is currently assistant editor of the American Journal of Cardiology.

Publications

1. Sills MN, XuYC. Barrachini E, Goodman RH, Cooperman S, Madel G, Chien KR: Expression of diverse sodium channel mRNAs in rat Myocardium: Evidence for a cardiac specific sodium Channel; Journal of Clinical Investigation 1989; 84:331
   
   
2. Kahn JK, McGhie I, Sills MN, Henderson E, Akers M, Faber T, Kulkarni P, Willerson JT, Corbett JR; Quantitative rotational tomography with Thallium - 201 and Tc - 99m methoxyisobutyl isonitrile; Circulation 1989; 79:1282
   
   
3. Cigarroa R, Lang RA, Popma JJ, Sills MN, Hillis LD: Effects of intracoronary ethanol on coronary blood flow; American Heart Journal 1990: 119:254
   
   
4. Cigarroa R, Lang RA, Popma JJ, Sills MN, Hillis LD: Effects of intracoronary ethanol on coronary blood flow; New England Journal of Medicine 1989; 321:1557
   
   
5. Kahn JK, Sills MN, Corbett JR, Willerson JT: What is the role of nuclear cardiology in clinical medicine? Chest 1990; 97:442

Abstracts

1. Sills MN, Xu YC, Cooperman S, Mandel G, Chien KR: Molecular characterization of cardiac sodium channels: expression of brain - a and a new member of the family of sodium channel genes in rat myocardium; Clinical Research 1998; 26:318
   
   
2. Sills MN, Xu YC, Barrachni E, Goodman RH, Cooperman S, Mandel G, Chien KR: Diversity of Sodium Channel mRNAs: Evidence for a Cardiac Specific Gene; Circulation 1988; 78:11,4:101
   
   
3. Kahn JK, McGhee I, Sills MN, Katz J, Willerson JT, Corbett JR: Use of gated Tc-99m RP30 tomography to distinguish alchemic fraom infracted myocardium in patients with coronary artery disease; circulation 1988; 78:11, 4:763
   
   
4. Kahn JK, McGhie I, Sills MN, Faber T, Akers M, Willerson JT, Corbett JR; Assessment of myocardial viability with Tc-99m methozysiobutyl isonitrile (MIBI) and gated tomography in patients with coronary artery disease; Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1989; 13:2A, 98A
   
   
5. Kahn JK, McGhie I, Sills MN, Faber T, Akers M, Willerson JT, Corbett JR: Superiority of Tc-99m methoxysiobutyl isontrile compared to thallium - 201 for the tomographic assessment of coronary artry stenoses; Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1989; 12:2A, 31A
   
   
6. McGhie I, Corbett JR, Sills MN, Akers M, Willerson JT, Regional depletion of myocardial catecholamine stores following acute myocardial infarction; Clinical Research 1989; 42: 221
   
   
7. Cigarroa R, Lange RA, Popma JJ, Sills MN, Hillis LD: Effects of inhaled cocaine on coronary blood flow Circulation 1990: 80: 11, 4:351

Education

Fellowship

• University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
  Affiliated Hospitals
  Dallas, Tx.
  Cardiology 1986 - 1990
  
  Residency
  
• Strong Memorial Hospital
  Rochester, New York
  Internal Medicine 1984 - 1986
  
  Internship
  
• The George Washington University Hospital
  Washington, D.C.
  Internal Medicine 1983 - 1984
  
  Medical School
  
• The George Washington University
  Washington, D.C.
  M.D. with Distinction 1983
  
  College:
  
• Wesleyan University
  Middletown, CT
  B.A. Cum Laude 1979
  
  Certification
  
• Diplomat, American Board of Internal Medicine 1986
  
• Diplomat, ABIM - Cardiovascular Disease 1989
  
  Academic Appointments
  
• Nuclear Fellow, Division of Cardiology
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Parkland Hospital, Dallas, Texas 1988 - 1989
  
  
• Bugher Post - Doctoral Research Fellow,
  Department of Biochemistry
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Dallas, Texas 1986 - 1988
  
  
• Instructor in Medicine, Division of Cardiology
  Department of Medicine
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX. 1989 - 1990
  
  Honors and Awards
  
• Bugher Fellowship Award, 1986
  
• Lemon Company Student Award, 1983
  
• Merck Manual Award, 1983
  
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, 1982
  
  Memberships
  
• American College of Cardiology, Fellow
• American College of Physicians
• American Medical Association
• Dallas County Medical Society
• Texas Medical Association

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