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Kristin Ellison, MD, explains the importance of automatic
external defibrillators.
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Kristin Ellison, MD
Kristin Ellison, MD, is an electrophysiologist at Rhode Island Hospital
and The Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI, and an expert in pacemakers
and defibrillators. Her clinical expertise and primary research focuses
on pacing the left ventricle through the placement of leads in the
coronary sinus to enable biventricular pacing or cardiac resynchronization.
She also focuses on how biventricular pacing can improve cardiac pump
function in patients with congestive heart failure. Her other interests
include the evaluation of syncope and the management of arrhythmia
with antiarrhythmic drugs or radiofrequency catheter ablation.
Ellison is the head of the cardiac arrest committee at Rhode Island
Hospital and was instrumental in the placement of automatic external
defibrillators (AEDs) throughout the hospital. She has also recently
developed a community program to provide training on portable AEDs
and has worked to place these devices in a local school system.
Ellison is currently an assistant professor of medicine at Brown
Medical School. Before joining Rhode Island Hospital, Ellison was
a cardiologist at Brigham Medical Group, a member of the medical
staff at Faulkner Hospital and an instructor of medicine at Harvard
Medical School. She received her bachelor's degree from Bowdoin
College, graduate degree from University of Massachusetts, Boston,
and medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She
completed her residency in internal medicine at Washington University
and fellowships in cardiovascular medicine and electrophysiology
at Stanford University School of Medicine and Brigham and Women's
Hospital.
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