Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Fellow in Cardiology, Medicine, Duke University 2001 - 2002
  • M.H.S., Duke University 2001
  • Fellow in Cardiology, Medicine, Duke University 1997 - 2000
  • Medical Resident, Medicine`, University of Pennsylvania 1994 - 1997
  • M.D., Washington University 1994
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Consulting Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine 2005 - 2009
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine 2002 - 2004
  • Instructor, Temporary in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine 2002
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Journal Articles

    • Pastva, AM, Duncan, PW, Reeves, GR, Nelson, MB, Whellan, DJ, O'Connor, CM, Eggebeen, JD, Hewston, LA, Taylor, KM, Mentz, RJ, Rosenberg, PB, and Kitzman, DW. "Strategies for supporting intervention fidelity in the rehabilitation therapy in older acute heart failure patients (REHAB-HF) trial." Contemporary clinical trials 64 (January 2018): 118-127.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ. "Change Is Not Always Good." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 70, no. 20 (November 2017): 2501-2503.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, and Lindenfeld, J. "Easy to Predict, Difficult to Prevent." Jacc. Heart Failure 5, no. 3 (March 2017): 226-228.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, McCarey, MM, Taylor, BS, Rosengart, TK, Wallace, AS, Shroyer, ALW, Gammie, JS, and Peterson, ED. "Trends in Robotic-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts: A Study of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database, 2006 to 2012." The Annals of thoracic surgery 102, no. 1 (July 2016): 140-146.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Stebbins, A, Hernandez, AF, Ezekowitz, JA, McMurray, JJV, Mather, PJ, Hasselblad, V, and O'Connor, CM. "Dichotomous Relationship Between Age and 30-Day Death or Rehospitalization in Heart Failure Patients Admitted With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Results From the ASCEND-HF Trial." Journal of cardiac failure 22, no. 6 (June 2016): 409-416.  Full Text
    • Ragupathi, L, Fonseka, N, Sendecki, JA, McCarey, MM, Breecker, SW, and Whellan, DJ. "Proton pump inhibitors and hypomagnesemia in patients with arrhythmias." International Journal of Clinical Practice 69, no. 12 (December 2015): 1525-1526. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Bellam, N, Kelkar, AA, and Whellan, DJ. "Team-Based Care for Managing Cardiac Comorbidities in Heart Failure." Heart Failure Clinics 11, no. 3 (July 2015): 407-417.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Kraus, WE, Kitzman, DW, Rooney, B, Keteyian, SJ, Piña, IL, Ellis, SJ, Ghali, JK, Lee, KL, Cooper, LS, and O'Connor, CM. "Authorship in a multicenter clinical trial: The Heart Failure-A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training (HF-ACTION) Authorship and Publication (HAP) scoring system results." American heart journal 169, no. 4 (April 2015): 457-63.e6. (Review)  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Goldstein, JL, Cryer, BL, Eisen, GM, Lanas, A, Miller, AB, Scheiman, JM, Fort, JG, Zhang, Y, and O'Connor, C. "PA32540 (a coordinated-delivery tablet of enteric-coated aspirin 325 mg and immediate-release omeprazole 40 mg) versus enteric-coated aspirin 325 mg alone in subjects at risk for aspirin-associated gastric ulcers: results of two 6-month, phase 3 studies." American heart journal 168, no. 4 (October 2014): 495-502.e4.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Sarkar, S, Koehler, J, Small, RS, Boyle, A, Warman, EN, and Abraham, WT. "Development of a method to risk stratify patients with heart failure for 30-day readmission using implantable device diagnostics." The American Journal of Cardiology 111, no. 1 (January 2013): 79-84.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Cox, M, Hernandez, AF, Heidenreich, PA, Curtis, LH, Peterson, ED, and Fonarow, GC. "Utilization of hospice and predicted mortality risk among older patients hospitalized with heart failure: findings from GWTG-HF." J Card Fail 18, no. 6 (June 2012): 471-477.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Whellan, DJ, Droogan, CJ, Fitzpatrick, J, Adams, S, McCarey, MM, Andrel, J, Mather, P, Rubin, S, Bonita, R, and Keith, S. "Change in intrathoracic impedance measures during acute decompensated heart failure admission: results from the Diagnostic Data for Discharge in Heart Failure Patients (3D-HF) Pilot Study." Journal of Cardiac Failure 18, no. 2 (February 2012): 107-112.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Nigam, A, Arnold, M, Starr, AZ, Hill, J, Fletcher, G, Ellis, SJ, Cooper, L, Onwuanyi, A, Chandler, B, Keteyian, SJ, Ewald, G, Kao, A, and Gheorghiade, M. "Benefit of exercise therapy for systolic heart failure in relation to disease severity and etiology-findings from the Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training study." American Heart Journal 162, no. 6 (December 2011): 1003-1010.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Adams, S, and Bowerman, L. "Review of advanced heart failure device diagnostics examined in clinical trials and the potential benefit from monitoring capabilities." Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases 54, no. 2 (September 2011): 107-114. (Review)  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Zhao, X, Hernandez, AF, Liang, L, Peterson, ED, Bhatt, DL, Heidenreich, PA, Schwamm, LH, and Fonarow, GC. "Predictors of hospital length of stay in heart failure: findings from Get With the Guidelines." J Card Fail 17, no. 8 (August 2011): 649-656.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Whellan, DJ, Ousdigian, KT, Al-Khatib, SM, Pu, W, Sarkar, S, Porter, CB, Pavri, BB, O'Connor, CM, and PARTNERS Study Investigators, . "Combined heart failure device diagnostics identify patients at higher risk of subsequent heart failure hospitalizations: results from PARTNERS HF (Program to Access and Review Trending Information and Evaluate Correlation to Symptoms in Patients With Heart Failure) study." J Am Coll Cardiol 55, no. 17 (April 27, 2010): 1803-1810.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Whellan, DJ, Greiner, MA, Schulman, KA, and Curtis, LH. "Costs of inpatient care among Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2001 to 2004." Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 3, no. 1 (January 2010): 33-40.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Green, CL, Piccini, JP, and Krucoff, MW. "QT as a safety biomarker in drug development." Clin Pharmacol Ther 86, no. 1 (July 2009): 101-104.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Whellan, DJ. "Introduction: Vasopressin therapy." Heart Failure Reviews 14, no. 2 (June 2009): 57-58.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, O'Connor, CM, Ousdigian, KT, Lung, T-H, and PARTNERS HF Study Investigators, . "Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of a Program to Assess and Review Trending INformation and Evaluate CorRelation to Symptoms in Patients with Heart Failure (PARTNERS HF)." Am Heart J 156, no. 5 (November 2008): 833-839.e2.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Whellan, DJ, and Harrington, C. "Diastolic heart failure and continuous hemodynamic monitoring." American Heart Journal 153, no. 4 Suppl (April 2007): 6-11.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, O'Connor, CM, Lee, KL, Keteyian, SJ, Cooper, LS, Ellis, SJ, Leifer, ES, Kraus, WE, Kitzman, DW, Blumenthal, JA, Rendall, DS, Houston-Miller, N, Fleg, JL, Schulman, KA, Piña, IL, and HF-ACTION Trial Investigators, . "Heart failure and a controlled trial investigating outcomes of exercise training (HF-ACTION): design and rationale." American Heart Journal 153, no. 2 (February 2007): 201-211.  Full Text
    • Whellan, DJ, Reed, SD, Liao, L, Gould, SD, O'connor, CM, and Schulman, KA. "Financial implications of a model heart failure disease management program for providers, hospital, healthcare systems, and payer perspectives." Am J Cardiol 99, no. 2 (January 15, 2007): 256-260.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Whellan, DJ, Hasselblad, V, Peterson, E, O'Connor, CM, and Schulman, KA. "Metaanalysis and review of heart failure disease management randomized controlled clinical trials." American Heart Journal 149, no. 4 (April 2005): 722-729. (Review)  Full Text

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