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Sándor J. KovácS, M.d., Ph.d.

Professor of Medicine, & of Cell Biology & Physiology
Adjunct Professor of Physics & Biomedical Engineering
Education: Director & Founder, Cardiovascular Biophysics Laboratory

• 1969 BS, Engineering
Cornell University cardiovaScular PhySiologiSt
• 1972 MS, Physics
California Institute of Technology
• 1977 PhD, Physics
California Institute of Technology
• 1979 MD, University of Miami
• 1982 Residency: Internal Medicine,
Washington University in St. Louis
School of Medicine
• 1985 Fellowship: Cardiology
Washington University in St. Louis
School of Medicine

Research Interests:

• Diastolic Function Assessment via the
Parameterized diastolic filling (PDF)
formalism
• Load independent index of diastolic
function
• Impedance based diastolic function
analysis
• Physiologic Hyperspace and Pressure
Phase plane analysis of chamber
properties
• Phase plane analysis of
ventricular-vascular coupling
• Constant volume attribute of the
four-chambered heart and its
implications
• Kinematic filling efficiency of the left
ventricle

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