University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview Positions:
Pediatric Cardiology
Cardiology
Other Related Positions Currently Held:
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Minnesota
Co-Director, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program
Board Certifications:
Pediatrics
Pediatric Cardiology
Sees Patients At:
University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview
Pediatric Specialty Clinic (Minneapolis)
University of Minnesota Physicians Pediatric Specialty Clinic -- St. Paul (St. Paul)
Specialty Clinic for Children (Burnsville)
Clinical Interests:
Adolescents/Young Adults with Heart Disease
Cardiac Genetics
Congenital Heart Disease
Echocardiography
General Pediatric Cardiology
Education:
Medical School – University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Site of Residency – Oregon Health Services (Pediatrics)
Sites of Fellowship –
Oregon Health Services (Physiology and Pediatric Cardiology)
University of Minnesota (Pediatric Cardiology)
Awards and Honors:
Best Doctors in America®, 2007-2008
March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Scholar
American Heart Association Scientist Development Award
University of Minnesota Clinical Scholar Award
Elected Member of the Society for Pediatric Research
Research Interests:
Normal Heart Development
Genetic and Molecular Causes of Congenital Heart Disease
Neurologic and Developmental Outcomes in Children with Congenital Heart Disease
Selected Recent Publications:
Wanner, Sarah, Danos, Maria, Lohr, Jamie, Miller, Jeff. "Molecular Cloning and Expression of Ena/Vasp-like (Evl) during Xenopus development", Gene Expression Patterns, 2005, 5:423-428.
Hills Christine, Moller James H., Finkelstein, Marsha, Lohr, Jamie, Schimmenti, Lisa. "Cri du Chat Syndrome and Congenital Heart Disease: A Review of Previously Reported Cases and Presentation of an Additional 21Cases from the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium". Pediatrics 2005.
Martinsen Brad J., Neumann, Ann N., Frasier Allison J., Baker Clare V.H., Krull, Catherine E., Lohr, Jamie L. PINCH-1 in Early Avian Embryogenesis: Implications for Neural Crest and Heart Development Developmental Dynamics Jan 2006 Cardiovascular Development Issue.
Martinsen, Brad J, Frasier, Allison J. and Lohr Jamie L. Cardiac Neural Crest Ablation Alters Id2 Gene Expression in the Developing Heart (2004). Developmental Biology 272(1) 176-190.
Martinsen Brad J, Groebner Nathan J, Frasier, Allison J. and Lohr, Jamie L. Expression of cardiac neural crest and heart genes isolated by modified differential display. Gene Expr Patterns, 2003, Aug:3(4):407-11.
Lohr, Jamie L. and Yost, H. Joseph. "Vertebrate Model Systems in the Study of Heart Development: Xenopus and Zebrafish" American Journal of Medical Genetics (Seminars in Medical Genetics) Winter 2000, 97:248-257.
Angelo S*, Lohr J*, Lee KH, Ticho B, Breitbart R, Yost HJ, Srivastava D. "Conservation of Sequence and Expression of Xenopus and Zebrafish dhand During Cardiac, Branchial Arch and Lateral Mesoderm Development" Mechanisms of Development 2000; 95 231-237.
