Specialties:

• Cardiovascular Consultations
• Interventional Procedures
• Pacemaker Implantation
• Cardiac Catheterization

Started Practice:

• Since 1983

Board Certifications:

• Diplomate, National Board Of Medical Examiners, 1978.
• Diplomate, The American Board Of Internal Medicine, 1980.
• Diplomate, The American Board Of Internal Medicine
  Cardiovascular Disease, 1982.

Current Hospital Positions:

• Attending Physician
  Yale New Haven Hospital.
• Attending Physician
  The Hospital of St. Raphael

Academic Appointments:

• Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
  Yale University School Of Medicine.

Professional Background & Educational Training:

College
Brown University, 1972.
Providence, RI.

Medical School.
Yale University  School Of Medicine, 1972-1976.
New Haven, Connecticut.
M.D.

Advanced Training
Medical Internship and Residency, 1976 - 1979.
Yale New Haven Hospital,
New Haven, Connecticut.
 

Clinical and Research Fellow in Medicine, 1979 - 1983.
Cardiac Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts.

Professional Organizations:

• Fellow, The American College Of Cardiology.
• Member, The Paul Dudley White Society.
• Member, The Boston Pacemaker Club.
• Member, The Massachusetts Medical Society.

Awards & Honors:

• Best Doctors in America, Northeast Region, 1996 - 1997.
• Parker Prize Award For Clinical Excellence, 1976
  Yale School Of Medicine.
• Ferris Prize For Research In Morphology, 1976
  Yale University School Of Medicine.
• Albert S. Hyman Fellowship, 1982 -1983
  Awarded by The North American Society Of Pacing & Electrophysiology.

Presentations:

• Myocardial uptake of technetium-99m stannous pyrophosphate following D.C. cardioversion.
  American College Of Cardiology. February 1976.
• Right And Left Ventricular function before and after correction of Mitral Stenosis.
  American College Of Cardiology. March 1981.
• Exercise Cardiopulmonary Assessment with Duel Chamber Versus Ventricular Pacing.
  North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology.
  March 1983, and World Congress Of Pacing, May 1983.
• Doppler Ultrasound Measurement of Cardiac Output in Patients with Physiological Dual Chamber Pacemakers.
  World Congress Of Pacing. May 1983.

Publications:

• Dicola VC, Harthorne JW.  Different Modes Of Cardiac
  Pacing In Cardiac Pacing, Edward K Chung  (ed). (In Press)..
• Dicola VC, Harthorne JW.  Physiological Pacing In The Annual Review Of Medicine:  Selected Topics In The Clinical Sciences.  (In Press).