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William Jonathan Parsons

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Cardiology

Overview


1989 - 1991 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina (mentors Dr. Gary Stiles, Dr. Claude Piantadosi, Dr. Joseph Greenfield)

1991 - 1993 Assistant Professor of Medicine (Molecular Cardiology), The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas (mentor Dr. R. Sanders Williams)

2019 - Present Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 

2019 - Present Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Campbell University School of Medicine, Lillington, North Carolina

Clinical Interests: Cardiovascular Imaging, Vascular Medicine, Consultative Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology


Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Medicine · 2021 - Present Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine

Recent Publications


Typhoid fever.

Chapter · December 14, 2023 Typhoid fever is an invasive bacterial disease associated with bloodstream infection that causes a high burden of disease in Africa and Asia. Typhoid primarily affects individuals ranging from infants through to young adults. The causative organism, Salmon ... Full text Link to item Cite

Myocardial oxygenation in dogs during reactive hyperemia.

Journal Article J Biomed Opt · April 1998 The mechanisms of myocardial oxygenation during reactive hyperemia were studied in the beating heart using continuous near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. In open chest dogs, NIR spectroscopy was used to monitor brief occlusions of the left anterior descendin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting adverse outcome with exercise SPECT technetium-99m sestamibi imaging in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease.

Journal Article Am J Cardiol · February 1, 1997 The goal of this study was to determine the ability of exercise single-photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) technetium-99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi imaging to predict adverse events in a population with a comparable distribution of men (n = 114) and wome ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Dartmouth College, Geisel School of Medicine · 1980 M.D.
Dartmouth College · 1977 B.A.