Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Fellow in Cardiology, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2005 - 2011
  • Resident, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2002 - 2005
  • M.D., Harvard University 2002
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine 2013 - 2018
  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine 2011 - 2013
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • APPRAISE ATP awarded by Boston Scientific Corporation 2017 - 2022
  • Miracle-EF awarded by Medtronic, Inc. 2013 - 2014
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Gaeta, S, Schroder, JN, Daneshmand, MA, Thomas, KL, Hegland, DD, Piccini, JP, Daubert, JP, Koontz, JI, and Sun, AY. "Catheter Ablation of Mid-Myocardial Ventricular Tachycardia by Simultaneous Unipolar Radiofrequency Ablation With Half-Normal Saline Irrigation." Jacc. Clinical Electrophysiology 4, no. 9 (September 2018): 1263-1264.  Full Text
    • Black-Maier, E, Ren, X, Steinberg, BA, Green, CL, Barnett, AS, Rosa, NS, Al-Khatib, SM, Atwater, BD, Daubert, JP, Frazier-Mills, C, Grant, AO, Hegland, DD, Jackson, KP, Jackson, LR, Koontz, JI, Lewis, RK, Sun, AY, Thomas, KL, Bahnson, TD, and Piccini, JP. "Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction." Heart Rhythm 15, no. 5 (May 2018): 651-657.  Full Text
    • Il'Giovine, ZJ, DeVore, AD, Patel, CB, Koontz, J, and Schroder, J. "Rethinking papillary muscle resection for refractory ventricular tachycardia in the LVAD era. A case report." Journal of Electrocardiology 50, no. 6 (November 2017): 964-965.  Full Text
    • Koontz, J, and Daubert, JP. "Do new tools help us identify substrate to target for ablation in ventricular tachycardia?." Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology 28, no. 9 (September 2017): 1068-1069.  Full Text
    • Dittrich, HC, Feld, GK, Bahnson, TD, Camm, AJ, Golitsyn, S, Katz, A, Koontz, JI, Kowey, PR, Waldo, AL, and Brown, AM. "COR-ART: A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled dose-ranging study to evaluate single oral doses of vanoxerine for conversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation or flutter to normal sinus rhythm." Heart rhythm 12, no. 6 (June 2015): 1105-1112.  Full Text
    • Dittrich, HC, Feld, GK, Bahnson, TD, Camm, AJ, Golitsyn, S, Katz, A, Koontz, JI, Kowey, PR, Waldo, AL, and Brown, AM. "COR-ART: A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled dose-ranging study to evaluate single oral doses of vanoxerine for conversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation or flutter to normal sinus rhythm." Heart Rhythm 12, no. 6 (January 1, 2015): 1105-1112.  Full Text
    • Eyerly, SA, Bahnson, TD, Koontz, JI, Bradway, DP, Dumont, DM, Trahey, GE, and Wolf, PD. "Contrast in intracardiac acoustic radiation force impulse images of radiofrequency ablation lesions." Ultrasonic Imaging 36, no. 2 (April 2014): 133-148.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Jackson, KP, Hegland, DD, Frazier-Mills, C, Piccini, JP, Koontz, JI, Atwater, BD, Daubert, JP, and Worley, SJ. "Impact of using a telescoping-support catheter system for left ventricular lead placement on implant success and procedure time of cardiac resynchronization therapy." Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 36, no. 5 (May 2013): 553-558.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Jackson, KP, Hegland, DD, Frazier-Mills, C, Piccini, JP, Koontz, JI, Atwater, BD, Daubert, JP, and Worley, SJ. "Impact of using a telescoping-support catheter system for left ventricular lead placement on implant success and procedure time of cardiac resynchronization therapy." PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 36, no. 5 (2013): 553-558.  Full Text
    • Shah, SH, Thakkar, H, Shah, AA, Andersen, ND, Bain, J, Haynes, C, Muehlbauer, M, Stevens, R, Nilsson, K, Piccini, JP, Koontz, J, Sun, A, Newgard, CB, and Hranitzky, PM. "Metabolites Reporting on Mitochondrial Function Predict Response to Biventricular Pacing." CIRCULATION 126, no. 21 (November 20, 2012).  Link to Item
    • Eyerly, SA, Bahnson, TD, Koontz, JI, Bradway, DP, Dumont, DM, Trahey, GE, and Wolf, PD. "Intracardiac acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: a novel imaging method for intraprocedural evaluation of radiofrequency ablation lesions." Heart Rhythm 9, no. 11 (November 2012): 1855-1862.  Full Text  Open Access Copy  Link to Item
    • Williams, ES, Shah, SH, Piccini, JP, Sun, AY, Koontz, JI, Al-Khatib, SM, and Hranitzky, PM. "Predictors of mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease and an implantable defibrillator: an EPGEN substudy." Europace : European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology : Journal of the Working Groups on Cardiac Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology 13, no. 12 (December 2011): 1717-1722.  Full Text
    • Piccini, JP, Koontz, JI, and Jackson, KP. "Use of ventricular synchronized triggered atrial pacing to facilitate hemodynamic support during mapping and catheter ablation of ventricular vachycardia." J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 22, no. 10 (October 2011): 1174-1178.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Sun, AY, Koontz, JI, Shah, SH, Piccini, JP, Nilsson, KR, Craig, D, Haynes, C, Gregory, SG, Hranitzky, PM, and Pitt, GS. "The S1103Y cardiac sodium channel variant is associated with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator events in blacks with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction." Circulation. Cardiovascular Genetics 4, no. 2 (April 15, 2011): 163-168.  Full Text
    • Koontz, JI, Haithcock, D, Cumbea, V, Waldron, A, Stricker, K, Hughes, A, Nilsson, K, Sun, A, Piccini, JP, Kraus, WE, Pitt, GS, Shah, SH, and Hranitzky, P. "Rationale and design of the Duke Electrophysiology Genetic and Genomic Studies (EPGEN) biorepository." Am Heart J 158, no. 5 (November 2009): 719-725.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Koontz, BF, Das, S, Temple, K, Bynum, S, Catalano, S, Koontz, JI, Montana, GS, and Oleson, JR. "Dosimetric and radiobiologic comparison of 3D conformal versus intensity modulated planning techniques for prostate bed radiotherapy." Med Dosim 34, no. 3 (2009): 256-260.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Li, H, Xian, YM, Wang, J, Koontz, J, Nucci, M, and Sklar, J. "Effects of rearrangement and allelic exclusion of JJAZ1/SUZ12 on cell proliferation and survival." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, no. 50 (2007): 20001-20006.  Full Text
    • Nucci, MR, Harburger, D, Koontz, J, Cin, PD, and Sklar, J. "Molecular analysis of the JAZF1-JJAZ1 gene fusion by RT-PCR and fluorescence in situ hybridization in endometrial stromal neoplasms." American Journal of Surgical Pathology 31, no. 1 (2007): 65-70.  Full Text
    • Potti, A, Mukherjee, S, Petersen, R, Dressman, HK, Bild, A, Koontz, J, Kratzke, R, Watson, MA, Kelley, M, Ginsburg, GS, West, M, Harpole, DH, and Nevins, JR. "A genomic strategy to refine prognosis in early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer." The New England Journal of Medicine 355, no. 6 (August 2006): 570-580.  Full Text
    • Koontz, JI, Soreng, AL, Nucci, M, Kuo, FC, Pauwels, P, van Den Berghe, H, Dal Cin, P, Fletcher, JA, and Sklar, J. "Frequent fusion of the JAZF1 and JJAZ1 genes in endometrial stromal tumors." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98, no. 11 (May 2001): 6348-6353.  Full Text
    • Morgan, JA, Yin, Y, Borowsky, AD, Kuo, F, Nourmand, N, Koontz, JI, Reynolds, C, Soreng, L, Griffin, CA, Graeme-Cook, F, Harris, NL, Weisenburger, D, Pinkus, GS, Fletcher, JA, and Sklar, J. "Breakpoints of the t(11;18)(q21;q21) in mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma lie within or near the previously undescribed gene MALT1 in chromosome 18." Cancer Research 59, no. 24 (December 1999): 6205-6213.
    • Hodges, LM, Gonzalez, J, Koontz, JI, Myers, WH, and Harman, WD. ".beta.-Electrophilic Additions of Pentaammineosmium(II) .eta.2-Pyrrole Complexes." The Journal of Organic Chemistry 60, no. 7 (April 1995): 2125-2146.  Full Text
    • Gonzalez, J, Koontz, JI, Hodges, LM, Nilsson, KR, Sabat, M, Harman, WD, Neely, LK, and Myers, WH. "Osmium-Promoted Dipolar Cycloadditions with Pyrroles: An Efficient, Stereoselective Synthesis of 7-Azanorbornanes." Journal of the American Chemical Society 117, no. 12 (January 1, 1995): 3405-3421.  Full Text
    • Mashal, RD, Koontz, J, and Sklar, J. "Detection of mutations by cleavage of DNA heteroduplexes with bacteriophage resolvases." Nature Genetics 9, no. 2 (1995): 177-183.
    • Hodges, LM, Gonzalez, J, Koontz, JI, Myers, WH, and Harman, WD. ".eta.2-Pyrrole complexes as synthons to alkaloid derivatives." The Journal of Organic Chemistry 58, no. 18 (August 1993): 4788-4790.  Full Text
    • Myers, WH, Koontz, JI, and Harman, WD. "Tautomerizations, Protonations, and Electrophilic Additions of η²-Coordinated Pyrroles." Journal of the American Chemical Society 114, no. 14 (July 1, 1992): 5684-5692.  Full Text

  • Other Articles

    • Potti, A, Mukherjee, S, Petersen, R, Dressman, HK, Bild, A, Koontz, J, Kratzke, R, Watson, MA, Kelley, M, Ginsburg, GS, West, M, Harpole, DH, and Nevins, JR. "Retraction: A genomic strategy to refine prognosis in early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer. N Engl J Med 2006;355:570-80." The New England Journal of Medicine 364, no. 12 (March 2, 2011): 1176-null.  Full Text

  • Conference Papers

    • Eyerly, SA, Bahnson, TD, Koontz, JI, Bradway, DP, Dumont, DM, Trahey, GE, and Wolf, PD. "Confirmation of cardiac radiofrequency ablation treatment using intra-procedure acoustic radiation force impulse imaging." 2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium. October 7, 2012 - October 10, 2012.: IEEE, October 2012.  Full Text

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