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Kevin P. Newman, MD

Title:
Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Cardiac Transplant Program

Contact Information:
Email:   knewman@uthsc.edu
Office:  (901) 448-5738

Clinical/Research Interests:
Heart failure and transplant, invasive cardiology.  Research focus includes treatment of diastolic heart failure and the role of micro- and macronutrients in the pathophysiology of congestive heart failure.

Degree: Medical College of Pennsylvania
Residency: Tulane University (chief resident)
Fellowship: Wake Forest University
Joined UT: 1988

Recent Publications:
  1. Demirkan K, Stephens MA, Newman KP, Self TH. Response to warfarin and other oral anticoagulants: effects of disease states. South Med J. 2000;93:448-454.
  2. Weber KT, Burlew BS, Davis RC, Newman KP, D’Cruz IA, Hawkins RG, Wall BM, Parker RB. CHF: circulatory homeostasis gone awry. Congest Heart Fail. 2002;8 (1):37-48.
  3. Bhattacharya SK, Ahokas RA, Carbone LD, Newman KP, Gerling IC, Sun Y, Weber KT. Macro- and micronutrients in African-Americans with heart failure. Heart Fail Rev. 2006;11:45-55.
  4. Arroyo M, LaGuardia SP, Bhattacharya SK, Nelson MD, Johnson PL, Carbone LD, Newman KP, Weber KT. Micronutrients in African-Americans with decompensated and compensated heart failure. Transl Res. 2006;148:301-308.
  5. Zagol BW, Wodi LA, Davis RC, Newman KP. A hyperactive pulmonary vasculature in response to chronic mitral regurgitation. Am J Med Sci. 2007;333:390-393.
  6. Newman KP, Neal M, Roberts M, Goodwin KD, Hatcher EA, Bhattacharya SK. The importance of lost minerals in heart failure. Cardiovasc Hematol Agents Med Chem. 2007 (In press).
  7. Newman KP, Bhattacharya SK, Munir A, Davis RC, Soberman JE, Ramanathan KB. Macro- and micronutrients in patients with congestive heart failure, particularly African-Americans. Vasc Health Risk Manag. 2007 (In press).
  8. Dockery BK, Newman KP. Exercise-induced asystole with syncope in a healthy young man. Am J Med Sci. 2007 (In press).
  9. Alsafwah S, LaGuardia SP, Arroyo M, Dockery BK, Bhattacharya SK, Ahokas RA, Newman KP. Congestive heart failure is a systemic illness. A role for macro- and micronutrients. Clin Med Res. 2007 (In press).
  10. Alsafwah S, LaGuardia SP, Arroyo M, Nelson MD, Battin DL, Bhattacharya SK, Newman KP, Carbone LD, Weber KT. Heart failure in African-Americans includes a dyshomeostasis of macro- and micronutrients. 2007 (Submitted).
Revised: November 13, 2009