UCLA Neuroscience Program Ph.D. Admissions Neuroscience Faculty UCLA and Beyond  



Alan Garfinkel
Mathematical Modeling of Cellular and Tissue Electrophysiology

Email Address:  agarfinkel@mednet.ucla.edu

Work Address:
57-145 CHS


Phone Numbers:
(310) 794-3594 Lab
310-794-7214 Office


Selected Publications:

Garfinkel, A. Tintut, Y. Petrasek, D. Bostrom, K. Demer, L. L. Pattern formation by vascular mesenchymal cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004; 101(25): 9247-50.
S. Port, L. Demer, R. Jennrich, D. Walter and A. Garfinkel Systolic blood pressure and mortality. The Lancet 2000; 355: 175-80.
Z. Qu, F. Xie, and A. Garfinkel Diffusion-induced vortex filament instability in 3-Dimensional excitable media. Phys. Rev. Lett 1999; 2668-2671.
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; 113(5): 686-93.
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; 97(11): 6061-6.
Krogstad, P Uittenbogaart, CH Dickover, R Bryson, YJ Plaeger, S Garfinkel, A Primary HIV infection of infants: the effects of somatic growth on lymphocyte and virus dynamics.. Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) . 1999; 92(1): 25-33.
Qu, Z Weiss, JN Garfinkel, A Cardiac electrical restitution properties and stability of reentrant spiral waves: a simulation study.. The American journal of physiology. . 1999; 276(1 Pt 2): H269-83.
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; 99(2): 305-14.
Garfinkel, A Spano, ML Ditto, WL Weiss, JN Controlling cardiac chaos.. Science. . 1992; 257(5074): 1230-5.
Research Interest:

Analysis of data from experimental and clinical arrhythmias using techniques of nonlinear dynamics ("chaos theory"). Development of pharmacologic and electrophysiologic interventions to prevent or control arrhythmias. Pattern formation in biological systems.