Professional Bio
Katherine T. Murray, MD, is Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Murray’s major scientific interest is to improve the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and to identify novel therapeutic targets. Recent work has focused on the role of reactive lipid mediators on oxidative stress injury on susceptibility to atrial fibrillation in mouse models. This work was instrumental to the funding of an American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network grant on atrial fibrillation at Vanderbilt.
Dr. Murray collaborates with investigators in the Department of Health Policy on pharmacoepidemiologic studies to investigate the risk of sudden cardiac death for noncardiac medications, as well as outcome risks of oral anticoagulant medications. She has been a writing committee member for the American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association/Heart Rhythm Society Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation since 2014, including the 2019 Update, and she is a member of the EHRA/HRS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus panel on atrial cardiomyopathies.
Dr. Murray is a fellow of the American Heart Association and the Heart Rhythm Society, serving as a Judge/Committee Chairman for the HRS Young Investigators Competition. She has been an invited speaker locally and nationally at academic institutions and scientific meetings, and she has served on numerous clinical trial event committees. She has authored 98 original investigations with more than 130 total publications.
Dr. Murray attends clinically on inpatient arrhythmia consult service and in the Heart Station at Vanderbilt University Hospital and runs an outpatient clinic for patients with cardiac arrhythmias.
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Education
MD - Duke University, 1980
Residency - IM - Vanderbilt University, 1983
Fellowship - Clinical Parmacology - Vanderbilt University, 1985
Fellowship - Cardiology - Duke University, 1986
Fellowship - Cardiac Electrophysiology - Duke University, 1987
Fellowship - Stahlman Cardiovascular - Vanderbilt University, 1988
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307