Janette Strasburger, MD

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Specialty(ies)

• Cardiology
• Cardiology, Pediatric
• Electrophysiology
• Pediatrics

Board Certification(s)

• Pediatrics
• Pediatric Cardiology

Education

• MD: University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1977 - 1980.
• Residency: University of Nebraska, Omaha, (Pediatrics) 1980 - 1983.
• Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (Pediatric Cardiology) 1983 - 1986.
• Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, (Electrophysiology) 1986 - 1987.

Employment

• 1987-1996: Director, Electrocardiography Laboratory, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
• 1987-1999: Assistant professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University College of Medicine.
• 1987-2001: Attending physician, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
• 1987-present: Consulting physician, Department of Pediatrics, Member Fetal Assessment Team, Prentice Women's Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
• 1988-present: Consulting physician, Department of Pediatrics, Evanston Hospital, Chicago.
• 1988-present: Member, Perinatal Assessment Team, Evanston Hospital, Chicago.
• 1999-2001: Associate professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University College of Medicine, Chicago.
• 2001-present: Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
• 2002-present: Member, Division of Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
• 2002-present: Medical director, Pediatric Cardiology Exercise Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
• 2002-present: Director of Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, Neenah Wis.

• 1987-present: Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Society.
• 1988-present: American Academy of Pediatrics.
• 1988-present: North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE), Pediatric Electrophysiology Group.
• 1988-present: American Heart Association, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, Council on Exercise.
• 1988-present: Chicago Heart Association.
• 1996-2001: Director, Dr. Scholl Cardiac Exercise Lab, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
• 1997-present: American Medical Association.

Honors

• 1983: Donald Nilsson Award for Excellence by a Pediatric Resident.
• 1986: Dreyfuss Foundation Grant.
• 1986-1987: NIH National Research Service Award, Institutional Training Grant Baylor College of Medicine.
• 2004: The Year in Congenital Heart Disease.

Publications

1. Strasburger JF, Kugler JD, Cheatham JP, McManus BM. Nonimmunologic hydrops fetalis associated with congenital aortic valvular stenosis. Am Heart J 1984;108:1380-1382.
2. Huhta JC, Strasburger JF, Carpenter RJ, Reiter A, Abinader E. Pulsed Doppler fetal echocardiography. Journal of Clinical Ultrasound 1985;13:247-254.
3. Strasburger JF, Huhta JC, Carpenter RJ, Garson A Jr, McNamara DG. Doppler echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of persistent fetal arrhythmias. J Am Coll Cardiol 1986;7(6):1386-1391.
4. Carpenter RJ, Strasburger JF, Garson A Jr, Smith RT, Deter RL, Engelhardt HT Jr. Fetal ventricular pacing for hydrops secondary to complete atrioventricular block. J Am Coll Cardiol 1986;8(6):1434-36.
5. Pongiglione G, Saul JP, Dunnigan A, Strasburger JF, Benson DW Jr. Role of transesophageal pacing in evaluation of palpitations in children and adolescents:. Am J Cardiol 1988;62:566-570.
6. Duffy CE, Strasburger JF. Evaluation of the fetus, newborn, infant, child, and adolescent echocardiography. The Child's Doctor 1988;5(1):13-20.
7. Benson DW Jr, Jadvar H, Strasburger JF. Utility of a stimulus artifact suppressor for transesophageal pacing. Am J Cardiol 1990;65(5):393-394.
8. Strasburger JF. Cardiac arrhythmias in childhood: Diagnostic considerations and treatment. Drugs 1991;42(6):974-983.
9. Ko JK, Deal BJ, Strasburger JF, Benson DW Jr. Supraventricular tachycardia mechanisms and their age distribution in pediatric patients. Am J Cardiol 1992;69:1028-1032.
10. Wigton TR, Sabbagha RE, Tamura RK, Cohen L, Minogue JP, Strasburger JF. Sonographic diagnosis of congenital heart disease: Comparison between the four-chamber view and multiple cardiac view. Obstetrics & Gynecology 1993;82(2):219-224.
11. Naheed ZJ, Strasburger JF, Benson DW Jr, Deal BJ. Natural history and management strategies of automatic atrial tachycardia in children. Am J Cardiol 1995;75:405-407
12. Samson RA, Deal BJ, Strasburger JF, Benson DW Jr . Comparison of transeosphageal and intracardiac electrophysiology studies in characterization of supraventricular tachycardia in pediatric patients. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;27(7):1736-1740.
13. Naheed Z, Deal BJ, Gidding SS, Benson DW Jr, Strasburger JF. Fetal tachycardia: mechanisms and predictors of hydrops fetalis. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;27:1736-1740.
14. Parilla B, Strasburger JF, Sokol M. Fetal supraventricular tachycardia complicated by hydrops fetals: A role for direct fetal intramuscular therapy. Am J Perinatol 1996;13(8):483-486.
15. Strasburger JF, Duffy CE, Gidding SS. Abnormal doppler flow patterns in atrial tachycardia in infants. Am J Cardiology 1997 Sep 1;80 (5), pp. 640-3.
16. Johnsrude CJ, Backer CL, Deal BJ, Strasburger JF, and Mavroudis, C. Transmural atrial pacing in patients with postoperative congenital heart disease J Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, l999;10:351-357
17. Pahl E, Sundararaghavan S, Strasburger JF, Mitchell BM, Rodgers S, Crowley D, Gidding SS. Impaired exercise parameters in pediatric heart transplant recipients. Pediatr Transplantation 2000;4:1-5.
18. Strasburger JF. Fetal arrhythmias. Progress in Pediatric Cardiology 2000;1:1-17.
19. Strasburger JF, Backer CLÉ A comparison of steroid eluting epicardial versus transvenous pacing leads in children. J Cardiac Surg. 2000;15:323-329.
20. Cuneo BF, Strasburger JF. Management strategy for fetal tachycardia, Obstet Gynecol Oct 2000; 96 (4), pp. 575-81.
21. Wessel H, Mitchell B, and Strasburger JF. Exercise performance in an urban Pediatric Cardiology Clinic setting. Pediatric Exercise Science 2001;13:392-401.
22. Mavroudis C, Backer CL, Deal BJ, Johnsrude C, and Strasburger JF. Total Cavopulmonary Conversion and Maze Procedure for Patients with Failure of The Fontan Operation. J of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2001 Nov; 122 (5), pp. 863-71.
23. Strasburger JF, Maron B, Survival from Commotio Cordis with a Defibrillator, New England Journal of Medicine, October 2002, N Engl J Med, Vol. 347, No. 16, p. 1248.
24. Wakai RT, Strasburger JF, Li Z, Deal BJ, Gotteiner NL. Magnetocardiographic Rhythm Patterns at Initiation and Termination of Fetal Supraventricular Tachycardia. Circulation. 2003;107:307-312.
25. Mitchell BM, Weigel TJ, Hubbard BS, Strasburger JF, and Wessel HU. Serial exercise performance in children with surgically-corrected congenital aortic stenosis. Pediatric Cardiology. 2003;24:319-24.
26. Kannankeril PJ, Gotteiner NL, Deal BJ, Johnsrude CL, Strasburger JF. Location of accessory connection in infants presenting with supraventricular tachycardia in utero: clinical correlations. Am J Perinatol. 2003;20:115-20.
27. Cuneo BF, Ovadia M, Strasburger JF, Zhao H, Petropulos T, Schneider J, Wakai RT. Prenatal diagnosis and in utero treatment of torsades de pointes associated with congenital long QT syndrome. Am J Cardiol. 2003;91:1395-8.
28. Mitchell BM, Johnsrude CL, Deal BJ, and Strasburger JF. Exercise performance in children with Long QT Syndrome. Pediatric Exercise Science (In review).
29. Strasburger JF, Cuneo BJ, Michon MM, Gotteiner NL, Deal BJ, McGregor SN, Oudijk MA, Meijboom EJ, Feinkind L, Hussey M, Parilla BV. Amiodarone Therapy for Drug-Refractory Fetal Tachycardia. Circulation. 2004;109:375-379.
30. Zhimin Li, Strasburger JF, Cuneo, BF, Gotteiner NL, Wakai RT. Giant fetal magnetocardiogram P-waves in congenital atrioventricular block: A marker of cardiovascular compensation? Circulation 2004. Accepted for Publication.

Ongoing

1. Type: RO1 HL063174-04 08/01/03 to 7/31/05. NIH, NHLBI. Magnetocardiographic Recording of Fetal Heart and Brainwave Activity. Role: Co-Investigator
2. Type: R43 HD043542-01 08/01/02 to 6/30/05. NIH, NHLBI. Development of Instrumentation for Fetal Cardiac Monitoring. The long-term goal of the research is to develop fMCG into a method that can improve clinical assessment of fetal cardiac rhythm and fetal well-being. Role: Consultant, Co-Investigator

Completed

1. RO1 DDK-00-0008 10/01/01 to 3/30/05. The Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents. The goal of this study was to evaluate the exercise parameters in children with Type 2 Diabetes. Role: Co-Investigator