Alan Garfinkel

Recalled Professor, Medicine, University of California Los Angeles

Education and Training

Harvard UniversityPhD06/1975Philosophy, Mathematics
Cornell UniversityAB06/1966Mathematics, Philosophy

Awards and Honors

  • Newton Abraham Visiting Professor, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK), 2019-2020.
  • Textbook Excellence Award, Textbook and Academic Authors Association, 2019.
  • University Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA, 2015.
  • Astor Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK), 2012.

Publications

  1. Xiong LI, Garfinkel A, Bennett KM, Baldelomar EJ, Brown L, Barrows K, Vallon V, Edwards A, McDonough AA, Porat-Shliom N, Deeds EJ. Life in the fast lane: Functional consequences of male-female dynamic differences in the renal auto-regulation of flow.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025.
  2. Zhang Z, Green JT, Haigney MC, Walker P, Shivkumar K, Garfinkel A, Qu Z. Methadone Blockade of Inward Rectifier Potassium Current Promotes Both Early and Delayed Repolarization Arrhythmias: Mechanistic Insights From Computational Modeling.. Journal of the American Heart Association, 2025.
  3. Qu Z, Hanna P, Ajijola OA, Garfinkel A, Shivkumar K. Ultrastructure and cardiac impulse propagation: scaling up from microscopic to macroscopic conduction.. The Journal of physiology, 2024.
  4. Xiong LI, Garfinkel A. Are physiological oscillations physiological?. The Journal of physiology, 2023.
  5. Cooper CB, Garfinkel A. A novel geometric method for determining the time constant for oxygen uptake kinetics.. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 2022.
  6. Xiong L, Garfinkel A. A common pathway to cancer: Oncogenic mutations abolish p53 oscillations.. Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 2022.
  7. Qu Z, Liu MB, Olcese R, Karagueuzian H, Garfinkel A, Chen PS, Weiss JN. R-on-T and the initiation of reentry revisited: Integrating old and new concepts.. Heart rhythm, 2022.
  8. Garfinkel A, Bennoun S, Deeds E, Van Valkenburgh B. Teaching Dynamics to Biology Undergraduates: the UCLA Experience.. Bulletin of mathematical biology, 2022.
  9. Griffis CG, Mistry J, Islam K, Cutler T, Colwell CS, Garfinkel A. Circadian and ultradian rhythms in normal mice and in a mouse model of Huntington's disease.. Chronobiology international, 2022.
  10. O'Leary ES, Sayson HW, Shapiro C, Garfinkel A, Conley WJ, Levis-Fitzgerald M, Eagan MK, Van Valkenburgh B. Reimagining the Introductory Math Curriculum for Life Sciences Students.. CBE life sciences education, 2021.
  11. Corazza P, Maddison J, Bonetti P, Guo L, Luong V, Garfinkel A, Younis S, Cordeiro MF. Predicting wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using DARC (detecting apoptosing retinal cells) AI (artificial intelligence) technology.. Expert review of molecular diagnostics, 2020.
  12. Pham BN, Luo J, Anand H, Kola O, Salcedo P, Nguyen C, Gaunt S, Zhong H, Garfinkel A, Tillakaratne N, Edgerton VR. Redundancy and multifunctionality among spinal locomotor networks.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2020.
  13. Guihard PJ, Guo Y, Wu X, Zhang L, Yao J, Jumabay M, Yao Y, Garfinkel A, Boström KI. Shaping Waves of Bone Morphogenetic Protein Inhibition During Vascular Growth.. Circulation research, 2020.
  14. Ponnaluri AVS, Verzhbinsky IA, Eldredge JD, Garfinkel A, Ennis DB, Perotti LE. Model of Left Ventricular Contraction: Validation Criteria and Boundary Conditions.. Functional imaging and modeling of the heart : ... International Workshop, FIMH ..., proceedings. FIMH, 2019.
  15. Kung GL, Vaseghi M, Gahm JK, Shevtsov J, Garfinkel A, Shivkumar K, Ennis DB. Microstructural Infarct Border Zone Remodeling in the Post-infarct Swine Heart Measured by Diffusion Tensor MRI.. Frontiers in physiology, 2018.
  16. Landaw J, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z. Memory-Induced Chaos in Cardiac Excitation.. Physical review letters, 2017.
  17. Liu MB, Ko CY, Song Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z. A Dynamical Threshold for Cardiac Delayed Afterdepolarization-Mediated Triggered Activity.. Biophysical journal, 2016.
  18. Ponnaluri AV, Perotti LE, Liu M, Qu Z, Weiss JN, Ennis DB, Klug WS, Garfinkel A. Electrophysiology of Heart Failure Using a Rabbit Model: From the Failing Myocyte to Ventricular Fibrillation.. PLoS computational biology, 2016.
  19. Prudat Y, Madhvani RV, Angelini M, Borgstom NP, Garfinkel A, Karagueuzian HS, Weiss JN, de Lange E, Olcese R, Kucera JP. Stochastic pacing reveals the propensity to cardiac action potential alternans and uncovers its underlying dynamics.. The Journal of physiology, 2016.
  20. Liu MB, de Lange E, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z. Delayed afterdepolarizations generate both triggers and a vulnerable substrate promoting reentry in cardiac tissue.. Heart rhythm, 2015.
  21. Madhvani RV, Angelini M, Xie Y, Pantazis A, Suriany S, Borgstrom NP, Garfinkel A, Qu Z, Weiss JN, Olcese R. Targeting the late component of the cardiac L-type Ca2+ current to suppress early afterdepolarizations.. The Journal of general physiology, 2015.
  22. Weiss JN, Garfinkel A, Karagueuzian HS, Nguyen TP, Olcese R, Chen PS, Qu Z. Perspective: a dynamics-based classification of ventricular arrhythmias.. Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology, 2015.
  23. Krishnamoorthi S, Perotti LE, Borgstrom NP, Ajijola OA, Frid A, Ponnaluri AV, Weiss JN, Qu Z, Klug WS, Ennis DB, Garfinkel A. Simulation Methods and Validation Criteria for Modeling Cardiac Ventricular Electrophysiology.. PloS one, 2014.
  24. Qu Z, Hu G, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Nonlinear and Stochastic Dynamics in the Heart.. Physics reports, 2014.
  25. Guo Y, Sun M, Garfinkel A, Zhao X. Mechanisms of side branching and tip splitting in a model of branching morphogenesis.. PloS one, 2014.
  26. Dolezal BA, Chudzynski J, Dickerson D, Mooney L, Rawson RA, Garfinkel A, Cooper CB. Exercise training improves heart rate variability after methamphetamine dependency.. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 2014.
  27. Guo Y, Chen TH, Zeng X, Warburton D, Boström KI, Ho CM, Zhao X, Garfinkel A. Branching patterns emerge in a mathematical model of the dynamics of lung development.. The Journal of physiology, 2013.
  28. Qu Z, Xie LH, Olcese R, Karagueuzian HS, Chen PS, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Early afterdepolarizations in cardiac myocytes: beyond reduced repolarization reserve.. Cardiovascular research, 2013.
  29. Chang MG, de Lange E, Calmettes G, Garfinkel A, Qu Z, Weiss JN. Pro- and antiarrhythmic effects of ATP-sensitive potassium current activation on reentry during early afterdepolarization-mediated arrhythmias.. Heart rhythm, 2012.
  30. Chen TH, Zhu X, Pan L, Zeng X, Garfinkel A, Tintut Y, Demer LL, Zhao X, Ho CM. Directing tissue morphogenesis via self-assembly of vascular mesenchymal cells.. Biomaterials, 2012.
  31. Cheng H, Reddy A, Sage A, Lu J, Garfinkel A, Tintut Y, Demer LL. Focal high cell density generates a gradient of patterns in self-organizing vascular mesenchymal cells.. Journal of vascular research, 2012.
  32. Chang MG, Chang CY, de Lange E, Xu L, O'Rourke B, Karagueuzian HS, Tung L, Marbán E, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z, Abraham MR. Dynamics of early afterdepolarization-mediated triggered activity in cardiac monolayers.. Biophysical journal, 2012.
  33. Chen TH, Guo C, Zhao X, Yao Y, Boström KI, Wong MN, Tintut Y, Demer LL, Ho CM, Garfinkel A. Patterns of periodic holes created by increased cell motility.. Interface focus, 2012.
  34. Boström KI, Garfinkel A, Yao Y, Jumabay M. Concise review: applying stem cell biology to vascular structures.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2012.
  35. Musienko P, Courtine G, Tibbs JE, Kilimnik V, Savochin A, Garfinkel A, Roy RR, Edgerton VR, Gerasimenko Y. Somatosensory control of balance during locomotion in decerebrated cat.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2012.
  36. Chen TH, Hsu JJ, Zhao X, Guo C, Wong MN, Huang Y, Li Z, Garfinkel A, Ho CM, Tintut Y, Demer LL. Left-right symmetry breaking in tissue morphogenesis via cytoskeletal mechanics.. Circulation research, 2012.
  37. Gahm JK, Wisniewski N, Kindlmann G, Kung GL, Klug WS, Garfinkel A, Ennis DB. Linear invariant tensor interpolation applied to cardiac diffusion tensor MRI.. Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2012.
  38. Nguyen TP, Xie Y, Garfinkel A, Qu Z, Weiss JN. Arrhythmogenic consequences of myofibroblast-myocyte coupling.. Cardiovascular research, 2011.
  39. Madhvani RV, Xie Y, Pantazis A, Garfinkel A, Qu Z, Weiss JN, Olcese R. Shaping a new Ca²⁺ conductance to suppress early afterdepolarizations in cardiac myocytes.. The Journal of physiology, 2011.
  40. Chang MG, Sato D, de Lange E, Lee JH, Karagueuzian HS, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z. Bi-stable wave propagation and early afterdepolarization-mediated cardiac arrhythmias.. Heart rhythm, 2011.
  41. Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Nivala M. Multi-scale modeling in biology: how to bridge the gaps between scales?. Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 2011.
  42. Weiss JN, Nivala M, Garfinkel A, Qu Z. Alternans and arrhythmias: from cell to heart.. Circulation research, 2011.
  43. Baher AA, Uy M, Xie F, Garfinkel A, Qu Z, Weiss JN. Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia: ping pong in the His-Purkinje system.. Heart rhythm, 2010.
  44. Qu Z, Xie Y, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. T-wave alternans and arrhythmogenesis in cardiac diseases.. Frontiers in physiology, 2010.
  45. Weiss JN, Garfinkel A, Karagueuzian HS, Chen PS, Qu Z. Early afterdepolarizations and cardiac arrhythmias.. Heart rhythm, 2010.
  46. Xie Y, Sato D, Garfinkel A, Qu Z, Weiss JN. So little source, so much sink: requirements for afterdepolarizations to propagate in tissue.. Biophysical journal, 2010.
  47. Rovetti R, Cui X, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z. Spark-induced sparks as a mechanism of intracellular calcium alternans in cardiac myocytes.. Circulation research, 2010.
  48. Morita N, Sovari AA, Xie Y, Fishbein MC, Mandel WJ, Garfinkel A, Lin SF, Chen PS, Xie LH, Chen F, Qu Z, Weiss JN, Karagueuzian HS. Increased susceptibility of aged hearts to ventricular fibrillation during oxidative stress.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2009.
  49. Sato D, Xie Y, Weiss JN, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Sanderson AR. Acceleration of cardiac tissue simulation with graphic processing units.. Medical & biological engineering & computing, 2009.
  50. Xie Y, Garfinkel A, Camelliti P, Kohl P, Weiss JN, Qu Z. Effects of fibroblast-myocyte coupling on cardiac conduction and vulnerability to reentry: A computational study.. Heart rhythm, 2009.
  51. Cui X, Rovetti RJ, Yang L, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z. Period-doubling bifurcation in an array of coupled stochastically excitable elements subjected to global periodic forcing.. Physical review letters, 2009.
  52. Tran DX, Sato D, Yochelis A, Weiss JN, Garfinkel A, Qu Z. Bifurcation and chaos in a model of cardiac early afterdepolarizations.. Physical review letters, 2009.
  53. Xie Y, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z. Cardiac alternans induced by fibroblast-myocyte coupling: mechanistic insights from computational models.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2009.
  54. Sage A, Tintut Y, Garfinkel A, Demer L. Systems biology of vascular calcification.. Trends in cardiovascular medicine, 2009.
  55. Sato D, Xie LH, Sovari AA, Tran DX, Morita N, Xie F, Karagueuzian H, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z. Synchronization of chaotic early afterdepolarizations in the genesis of cardiac arrhythmias.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009.
  56. Xie LH, Sato D, Garfinkel A, Qu Z, Weiss JN. Intracellular Ca alternans: coordinated regulation by sarcoplasmic reticulum release, uptake, and leak.. Biophysical journal, 2008.
  57. Roy RR, Pierotti DJ, Garfinkel A, Zhong H, Baldwin KM, Edgerton VR. Persistence of motor unit and muscle fiber types in the presence of inactivity.. The Journal of experimental biology, 2008.
  58. Yochelis A, Garfinkel A. Front motion and localized states in an asymmetric bistable activator-inhibitor system with saturation.. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2008.
  59. Mahajan A, Shiferaw Y, Sato D, Baher A, Olcese R, Xie LH, Yang MJ, Chen PS, Restrepo JG, Karma A, Garfinkel A, Qu Z, Weiss JN. A rabbit ventricular action potential model replicating cardiac dynamics at rapid heart rates.. Biophysical journal, 2008.
  60. Mahajan A, Sato D, Shiferaw Y, Baher A, Xie LH, Peralta R, Olcese R, Garfinkel A, Qu Z, Weiss JN. Modifying L-type calcium current kinetics: consequences for cardiac excitation and arrhythmia dynamics.. Biophysical journal, 2008.
  61. Tran DX, Yang MJ, Weiss JN, Garfinkel A, Qu Z. Vulnerability to re-entry in simulated two-dimensional cardiac tissue: effects of electrical restitution and stimulation sequence.. Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.), 2007.
  62. Rovetti R, Das KK, Garfinkel A, Shiferaw Y. Macroscopic consequences of calcium signaling in microdomains: a first-passage-time approach.. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2007.
  63. Chantawansri C, Huynh N, Yamanaka J, Garfinkel A, Lamp ST, Inoue M, Bridge JH, Goldhaber JI. Effect of metabolic inhibition on couplon behavior in rabbit ventricular myocytes.. Biophysical journal, 2007.
  64. Garfinkel A. Eight (or more) kinds of alternans.. Journal of electrocardiology, 2007.
  65. Tintut Y, Huang M, Lu J, Tseng W, Garfinkel A, Demer LL. Vascular calcification.. Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions, 2007.
  66. Lellouche N, Buch E, Celigoj A, Siegerman C, Cesario D, De Diego C, Mahajan A, Boyle NG, Wiener I, Garfinkel A, Shivkumar K. Functional characterization of atrial electrograms in sinus rhythm delineates sites of parasympathetic innervation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2007.
  67. Xie Y, Hu G, Sato D, Weiss JN, Garfinkel A, Qu Z. Dispersion of refractoriness and induction of reentry due to chaos synchronization in a model of cardiac tissue.. Physical review letters, 2007.
  68. Yao Y, Nowak S, Yochelis A, Garfinkel A, Boström KI. Matrix GLA protein, an inhibitory morphogen in pulmonary vascular development.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 2007.
  69. Ogawa M, Kumagai K, Vakulenko M, Yasuda T, Siegerman C, Garfinkel A, Chen PS, Saku K. Reduction of P-wave duration and successful pulmonary vein isolation in patients with atrial fibrillation.. Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology, 2007.
  70. Yang MJ, Tran DX, Weiss JN, Garfinkel A, Qu Z. The pinwheel experiment revisited: effects of cellular electrophysiological properties on vulnerability to cardiac reentry.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2007.
  71. Gong Y, Xie F, Stein KM, Garfinkel A, Culianu CA, Lerman BB, Christini DJ. Mechanism underlying initiation of paroxysmal atrial flutter/atrial fibrillation by ectopic foci: a simulation study.. Circulation, 2007.
  72. Sato D, Shiferaw Y, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Karma A. Inferring the cellular origin of voltage and calcium alternans from the spatial scales of phase reversal during discordant alternans.. Biophysical journal, 2006.
  73. Hayashi H, Shiferaw Y, Sato D, Nihei M, Lin SF, Chen PS, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z. Dynamic origin of spatially discordant alternans in cardiac tissue.. Biophysical journal, 2006.
  74. Shiferaw Y, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Karma A, Weiss JN. Nonlinear dynamics of paced cardiac cells.. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006.
  75. Pott C, Ren X, Tran DX, Yang MJ, Henderson S, Jordan MC, Roos KP, Garfinkel A, Philipson KD, Goldhaber JI. Mechanism of shortened action potential duration in Na+-Ca2+ exchanger knockout mice.. American journal of physiology. Cell physiology, 2006.
  76. Sato D, Shiferaw Y, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Qu Z, Karma A. Spatially discordant alternans in cardiac tissue: role of calcium cycling.. Circulation research, 2006.
  77. Baher A, Qu Z, Hayatdavoudi A, Lamp ST, Yang MJ, Xie F, Turner S, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Short-term cardiac memory and mother rotor fibrillation.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2006.
  78. Weiss JN, Karma A, Shiferaw Y, Chen PS, Garfinkel A, Qu Z. From pulsus to pulseless: the saga of cardiac alternans.. Circulation research, 2006.
  79. Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Vulnerable window for conduction block in a one-dimensional cable of cardiac cells, 1: single extrasystoles.. Biophysical journal, 2006.
  80. Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Vulnerable window for conduction block in a one-dimensional cable of cardiac cells, 2: multiple extrasystoles.. Biophysical journal, 2006.
  81. Weiss JN, Qu Z, Chen PS, Lin SF, Karagueuzian HS, Hayashi H, Garfinkel A, Karma A. The dynamics of cardiac fibrillation.. Circulation, 2005.
  82. Fukumoto GH, Lamp ST, Motter C, Bridge JH, Garfinkel A, Goldhaber JI. Metabolic inhibition alters subcellular calcium release patterns in rat ventricular myocytes: implications for defective excitation-contraction coupling during cardiac ischemia and failure.. Circulation research, 2005.
  83. Wu TJ, Lin SF, Baher A, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Ting CT, Chen PS. Mother rotors and the mechanisms of D600-induced type 2 ventricular fibrillation.. Circulation, 2004.
  84. Garfinkel A, Tintut Y, Petrasek D, Boström K, Demer LL. Pattern formation by vascular mesenchymal cells.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004.
  85. Weiss JN, Chen PS, Wu TJ, Siegerman C, Garfinkel A. Ventricular fibrillation: new insights into mechanisms.. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2004.
  86. Xie F, Qu Z, Yang J, Baher A, Weiss JN, Garfinkel A. A simulation study of the effects of cardiac anatomy in ventricular fibrillation.. The Journal of clinical investigation, 2004.
  87. Omichi C, Lamp ST, Lin SF, Yang J, Baher A, Zhou S, Attin M, Lee MH, Karagueuzian HS, Kogan B, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Chen PS, Weiss JN. Intracellular Ca dynamics in ventricular fibrillation.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2004.
  88. Yang J, Garfinkel A. Destruction of stable spiral waves in oscillatory media.. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2003.
  89. Qu Z, Karagueuzian HS, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Effects of Na(+) channel and cell coupling abnormalities on vulnerability to reentry: a simulation study.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2003.
  90. Chen PS, Wu TJ, Ting CT, Karagueuzian HS, Garfinkel A, Lin SF, Weiss JN. A tale of two fibrillations.. Circulation, 2003.
  91. Rasgon NL, Pumphrey L, Prolo P, Elman S, Negrao AB, Licinio J, Garfinkel A. Emergent oscillations in a mathematical model of the human menstrual cycle.. CNS spectrums, 2003.
  92. Weiss JN, Garfinkel A, Chen PS. Novel approaches to identifying antiarrhythmic drugs.. Trends in cardiovascular medicine, 2003.
  93. Yang J, Xie F, Qu Z, Garfinkel A. Mechanism for spiral wave breakup in excitable and oscillatory media.. Physical review letters, 2003.
  94. Weiss JN, Chen PS, Qu Z, Karagueuzian HS, Lin SF, Garfinkel A, Karma A. Effects of the excitation-contraction uncouplers diamine monoxime (DAM) and cytochalasin D (CytoD) on induced arrhythmias in the rabbit ventricle.. Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology, 2003.
  95. Weiss JN, Qu Z, Garfinkel A. Understanding biological complexity: lessons from the past.. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2003.
  96. Xie F, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Electrical refractory period restitution and spiral wave reentry in simulated cardiac tissue.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2002.
  97. Swissa M, Qu Z, Ohara T, Lee MH, Lin SF, Garfinkel A, Karagueuzian HS, Weiss JN, Chen PS. Action potential duration restitution and ventricular fibrillation due to rapid focal excitation.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2002.
  98. Omichi C, Zhou S, Lee MH, Naik A, Chang CM, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Lin SF, Karagueuzian HS, Chen PS. Effects of amiodarone on wave front dynamics during ventricular fibrillation in isolated swine right ventricle.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2002.
  99. Weiss JN, Chen PS, Qu Z, Karagueuzian HS, Lin SF, Garfinkel A. Electrical restitution and cardiac fibrillation.. Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology, 2002.
  100. Valderrábano M, Yang J, Omichi C, Kil J, Lamp ST, Qu Z, Lin SF, Karagueuzian HS, Garfinkel A, Chen PS, Weiss JN. Frequency analysis of ventricular fibrillation in Swine ventricles.. Circulation research, 2002.
  101. Xie F, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Effects of simulated ischemia on spiral wave stability.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2001.
  102. Xie F, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Electrophysiological heterogeneity and stability of reentry in simulated cardiac tissue.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2001.
  103. Weiss JN, Chen PS, Qu Z, Karagueuzian HS, Garfinkel A. Ventricular fibrillation: how do we stop the waves from breaking?. Circulation research, 2000.
  104. Parhami F, Garfinkel A, Demer LL. Role of lipids in osteoporosis.. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2000.
  105. Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Chen PS, Weiss JN. Mechanisms of discordant alternans and induction of reentry in simulated cardiac tissue.. Circulation, 2000.
  106. Voroshilovsky O, Qu Z, Lee MH, Ohara T, Fishbein GA, Huang HL, Swerdlow CD, Lin SF, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Karagueuzian HS, Chen PS. Mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation induction by 60-Hz alternating current in isolated swine right ventricle.. Circulation, 2000.
  107. Qu Z, Xie F, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Origins of spiral wave meander and breakup in a two-dimensional cardiac tissue model.. Annals of biomedical engineering, 2000.
  108. Qu Z, Kil J, Xie F, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN. Scroll wave dynamics in a three-dimensional cardiac tissue model: roles of restitution, thickness, and fiber rotation.. Biophysical journal, 2000.
  109. Garfinkel A, Kim YH, Voroshilovsky O, Qu Z, Kil JR, Lee MH, Karagueuzian HS, Weiss JN, Chen PS. Preventing ventricular fibrillation by flattening cardiac restitution.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2000.
  110. Port S, Demer L, Jennrich R, Walter D, Garfinkel A. Systolic blood pressure and mortality.. Lancet (London, England), 2000.
  111. Goldhaber JI, Lamp ST, Walter DO, Garfinkel A, Fukumoto GH, Weiss JN. Local regulation of the threshold for calcium sparks in rat ventricular myocytes: role of sodium-calcium exchange.. The Journal of physiology, 1999.
  112. Kim YH, Xie F, Yashima M, Wu TJ, Valderrábano M, Lee MH, Ohara T, Voroshilovsky O, Doshi RN, Fishbein MC, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Karagueuzian HS, Chen PS. Role of papillary muscle in the generation and maintenance of reentry during ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation in isolated swine right ventricle.. Circulation, 1999.
  113. Qu Z, Garfinkel A. An advanced algorithm for solving partial differential equation in cardiac conduction.. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering, 1999.
  114. Weiss JN, Garfinkel A, Karagueuzian HS, Qu Z, Chen PS. Chaos and the transition to ventricular fibrillation: a new approach to antiarrhythmic drug evaluation.. Circulation, 1999.
  115. Krivokapich J, Child JS, Walter DO, Garfinkel A. Prognostic value of dobutamine stress echocardiography in predicting cardiac events in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1999.
  116. Uchida T, Yashima M, Gotoh M, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Fishbein MC, Mandel WJ, Chen PS, Karagueuzian HS. Mechanism of acceleration of functional reentry in the ventricle: effects of ATP-sensitive potassium channel opener.. Circulation, 1999.
  117. Chen PS, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Karagueuzian HS. Computerized mapping of fibrillation in normal ventricular myocardium.. Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.), 1998.
  118. Withers-Ward ES, Jowett JB, Stewart SA, Xie YM, Garfinkel A, Shibagaki Y, Chow SA, Shah N, Hanaoka F, Sawitz DG, Armstrong RW, Souza LM, Chen IS. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Vpr interacts with HHR23A, a cellular protein implicated in nucleotide excision DNA repair.. Journal of virology, 1997.
  119. Kamjoo K, Uchida T, Ikeda T, Fishbein MC, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Karagueuzian HS, Chen PS. Importance of location and timing of electrical stimuli in terminating sustained functional reentry in isolated swine ventricular tissues: evidence in support of a small reentrant circuit.. Circulation, 1997.
  120. Garfinkel A, Chen PS, Walter DO, Karagueuzian HS, Kogan B, Evans SJ, Karpoukhin M, Hwang C, Uchida T, Gotoh M, Nwasokwa O, Sager P, Weiss JN. Quasiperiodicity and chaos in cardiac fibrillation.. The Journal of clinical investigation, 1997.
  121. Nguyen AH, Garfinkel A, Walter DO, Hamilton MA, Fonarow GC, Moriguchi JD, Hage A, Weiss JN, Middlekauff HR. Dynamics of muscle sympathetic nerve activity in advanced heart failure patients.. The American journal of physiology, 1996.
  122. Frank JS, Chen F, Garfinkel A, Moore E, Philipson KD. Immunolocalization of the Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger in cardiac myocytes.. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1996.
  123. Weiss JN, Garfinkel A, Spano ML, Ditto WL. Chaos and chaos control in biology.. The Journal of clinical investigation, 1994.
  124. Schechtman VL, Raetz SL, Harper RK, Garfinkel A, Wilson AJ, Southall DP, Harper RM. Dynamic analysis of cardiac R-R intervals in normal infants and in infants who subsequently succumbed to the sudden infant death syndrome.. Pediatric research, 1992.
  125. Garfinkel A, Raetz SL, Harper RM. Heart rate dynamics after acute cocaine administration.. Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology, 1992.
  126. Raetz SL, Richard CA, Garfinkel A, Harper RM. Dynamic characteristics of cardiac R-R intervals during sleep and waking states.. Sleep, 1991.
  127. Garfinkel AJ, Walter DO, Trelease RB, Harper RK, Harper RM. Non-linear dynamics of electrocardiographic waveforms following cocaine administration.. Life sciences, 1991.