Michael Earing, MD

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Specialty(ies)

• Adult congenital heart disease
• Pediatric Cardiology
• Congenital Echocardiography

Board Certification(s)

• Internal Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Pediatric Cardiology

Education

• MD: Rush Medical College (Chicago, Ill.), 1993 - 1997.
• Internship: Rush Presbyterian St Luke's Med Ctr (Chicago, Ill.), Combined Pediatrics/Internal Medicine, 1997 - 1998.
• Residency: Rush Presbyterian St Luke's Med Ctr (Chicago, Ill.), Combined Pediatrics/Internal Medicine, 1998 - 2001.
• Fellowship: Mayo Medical School (Rochester, Minn.), Pediatric Cardiology, 2001 - 2004.
• Subspecialty Training: Mayo Medical School (Rochester, Minn.), Adult Congenital Heart Disease.

Employment 

• 2001-2004: Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn.
• 2004-present: Children's Hospital of Wisconsin/Medical College of Wisconsin.

• 2003 American Academy of Pediatrics - Section of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Young Clinical Investigator Award Winner.
• 2001 Outstanding Senior Resident Award-Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago.
• 2000 Outstanding Resident Teacher Award-Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago.
• 1999 Hero of the Heart Award-Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago. (Given by the Department of Religion, Health, and human Values at RPSLMC to staff members who have shown exceptional care and compassion to a patient or family.)
• 1997 Rush Medical College Cardiology Prize-Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago. (Award given to the medical student who has had the best performance in a cardiology elective course based on interest, expertise, potential, and scientific aptitude.)
• 1993 Lester Belding Outstanding Senior Student Athlete Award-North Central College, Naperville, Ill. (Given to the senior student athlete with the highest GPA for his or her Academic career.)
• 1993 NCAA Division III Pre-season Academic All American Football Team-North Central College, Naperville, Ill.
• 1991-1993 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin All Conference Football Team-North Central College, Naperville, Ill.
• 1991 Talberg Outstanding Chemist Award-North Central College, Naperville, Il. (Given to student with the most outstanding performance in organic chemistry during the academic year.)

• 1997-present American Academy of Pediatrics.
• 1997-present American College of Physicians.
• 2001-present American College of Cardiology.
• 2001-present American Heart Association.

• 2004 Mayo Scholarly Clinician Award ($5,000). Funds granted to support study titled, "Assessment of Peripheral Endothelial Dysfunction in Young Type 1 Diabetics."
• 2003 Cardiovascular Division Discretionary Funds granted to support study titled, "Long-Term Outcome of Patients After Surgical Repair of Isolated Pulmonary Valve Stenosis: Follow-Up at 30 – 40 Years" ($2,049).
• 2003 Mayo Scholarly Clinician Award ($5,000). Funds granted to support study titled, "Correlation of Genotype with Echocardiographic Phenotype in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
• 2002 Mayo Scholarly Clinician Award ($5,000). Funds granted to support study titled, "Modified Fontan Operation for Double Inlet Left Ventricle: Improving Survival and Long Term Outcome in 225 Patients."
• 2001 Mayo Scholarly Clinician Award ($5,000), Funds granted to support study titled, "Does Coronary Endothelial Dysfunction Correlate with Peripheral Endothelial Dysfunction in the Adult Cardiac Transplantation Patient."

Publications

Original research

• Earing M, Ackerman M, Driscoll D. Cardiac phenotype in chromosome 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome. Progress in Pediatric Cardiology 2002;15:119-123.
• Earing MG, Edwards WD, Puga FJ, Cabalka AK. Unguarded mitral orifice, discordant atrioventricular connection, double outlet right ventricle, and pulmonary atresia: report of case and review of literature, Pediatric Cardiology 2003 March 14.
• Earing MG, Ackerman MJ, O'Leary PW. Abnormal left ventricular diastolic filling: a potential marker for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 2003;16:698-702.
• Earing MG, Cabalka AK, Reeder GS, Hagler DJ. Intracardiac Echocardiographic Guidance during Transcatheter Device Closure of Atrial Septal Defect and Patent Foramen Ovale. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2004;79(1):24-34.
• Earing MG, Cetta F, Driscoll DJ, Mair DD, Hodge DO, Meverden R, Dearani JA, Danielson GK, Puga FJ, O'Leary PW. The Fontan Operation for Double-Inlet Left Ventricle: Improved survival and long-term outcome in 225 patients. Submitted to JACC April 2004, currently in review.
• Earing MG, Connolly HM, Dearani JA, Ammash NM, Grogan M, Warnes CA. Long-term Follow-up of Patients After Surgical Treatment of Isolated Pulmonary Valve Stenosis: A not so benign prognosis? Submitted to Journal of American College of Cardiology, June 2004, currently in review.
• Earing MG, Mahmud FH, Lee RA, Lteif AN, Driscoll DJ, Nelson RE, Lerman A. Peripheral Endothelial Function in Adolescent Male Type I Diabetics Detected by Reactive Hyperemia Arterial Tonometry. Submitted to Circulation, June 2004, currently in review.
• Earing MG, Ackerman MJ, Van Driest SL, Cabalka AK, Hodge D, O'Leary PW, Ommen SR. Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Diagnosed in the Young. Submitted to Journal of the American College of Cardiology, June 2004, currently in review.

• Earing M. Athlete and heart disease: diagnosis, evaluation, and management. Pediatric Cardiology 1999;2:247.
• Earing M. Adult congenital heart disease CD ROM. Pediatric Cardiology 1999;2:263.

• 2004 Forty-Year Follow-up of Patients Undergoing Surgical Repair of Isolated Pulmonary Valve Stenosis.
• 2004 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
• 2004 Giant Main Pulmonary Artery Aneurysms: Do they rupture? 2004 American Society of Echocardiography 15^th Annual Scientific Sessions.
• 2003 Correlation of Genotype with Echocardiographic Phenotype in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. 2003 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
• 2003 Modified Fontan Operation for Double Inlet Left Ventricle: Improving Survival and Long Term Outcome in 225 Patients. 2003 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
• 2003 Long-term Follow-up of Patients After Surgical Treatment of Isolated Pulmonary Valve Stenosis: A not so benign prognosis? 2003 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
• 2003 Echocardiographic Phenotype in Genotyped Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy of the Young.
• Young clinical investigator abstract competition at the American Academy of Pediatric- Section of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery national conference, 2003.
• 2003 Modified Fontan Operation for Double Inlet Left Ventricle: Improving Survival and Long Term Outcome in 225 Patients. American Academy of Pediatric- Section of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery national conference.
• 2003 "The diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome" Pediatric Grand Rounds Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital St. Louis University
• 2003 "Cardiovascular Manifestations of Marfan Syndrome" Pediatric Grand Rounds Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago.
• 2003 Semilunar Valve Stenosis: How to determine the cause, severity, and treatment strategy.
• Nineteenth Annual Conference on Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
• 2003 Long-term Follow-up of Patients After Surgical Treatment of Isolated Pulmonary Valve Stenosis: A not so benign prognosis? Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Society Meeting Rochester, Minn.
• 2003 Intracardiac Echocardiographic Guidance during Transcatheter Device Closure of Atrial Septal Defect and Patent Foramen Ovale. The Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention. Boston, Massachusetts.
• 2002 "Unknown Cases" Eighteenth Annual Conference on Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
• 2002 "Diastolic Ventricular Dysfunction as a Marker for Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy."
• 2002 Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Society Meeting, Chicago, Ill.
• 1995 "Training Pre-Clinical Medical Students to do Functional Assessments: A Successful Community Partnership" American Association of Aging's National Convention Atlanta.