BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Name: Ellen Killebrew
Position Title: Cardiologist
Education/Training:
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION/DEGREE/DATE/FIELD OF STUDY
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA – BS, 1959 – Pre-Medical
New Jersey College of Medicine, NJ – MD, 1965 – Medicine
Colorado General Denver VA, CO – Internship, 1956-66 – Internal Medicine
Denver General Hospitals, CO – Residency, 1966-1968 – Internal Medicine
Pacific Medical Center, SF – Fellowship, 1968-1970 – Cardiology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1970-1977 Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Richmond, CA
1973-present University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA Assistant Clinical Professor 1973-1982, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine 1982-1992 Clinical Professor of Medicine 1992-present
1973-1976 Basic Coronary Care Course, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA
1976-1978 Member Research Committee of the American Heart Association
1978-1999 Cardiologist, Director of the Coronary Care Unit, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Oakland CA
1980-1982 President Contra Costa Chapter, American Heart Association
1998-present Member, Admission Panel, University of California Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco, Joint Medical Program.
2010-present EKG instructor for medical students at San Francisco General
Hospital
SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION
Internal Medicine 1978
Cardiovascular Diseases 1982
Maintenance of Certification 2014
PUBLICATIONS
Killebrew, E, Cohn K. Observations on murmurs originating from incompetent heterograft mitral valves. Am Heart J 1971 81:490
Levy, J, Killebrew E. lnotropic effects of prostaglandin E2 on isolated cardiac tissue. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1971: 136:1226
Killebrew E. Gerbode F. Leiomyosarcoma of the pulmonary artery diagnosed preoperatively by angiocardiography. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1976: 70:469
Bennet MT. Weber PM, Killebrew E Primary angiosarcoma of the heart detected by technetium-labeled erythrocyte cardiac imaging. Cancer 1982; 49; 2587-90
Bouchard A, Lipton M, Farmer D, Diethelm M, Killebrew E Garrett RD, Schiller N. Evaluation of regional ventricular wall motion by ECG gated CT. J Assoc Tomography 1987;11;969-74
Lipton M, Killebrew E, Regional myocardial dysfunction: evaluation of patients with prior myocardial infarction. Radiology 1985;157
Killebrew E, Golschlager N, Tennenhouse D. Bradycardia. Difficult Diagnosis ! ! !.B. Saunders 1991
Ordonez J, Hiatt R. Killebrew E, Fireman B. The increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with nephrotic syndrome. Kidney Int. 1993
WORK HISTORY
1970-1978 Kaiser Permanente Medical Group Richmond CA Cardiologist
1978-1999 Kaiser Permanente Medical Group Oakland CA Cardiologist
1999-2009 Interim Physicans Kaiser Foundation Hospital Richmond CA and Kaiser Foundation Hospital Oakland CA Cardiologist
2009-present. Jackson and Coker Kaiser Foundation Hospital Richmond Ca and Kaiser Foundation Hospital Richmond, CA