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Overview

D. Woodrow Benson is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pathology and forensic medicine, molecular biology, and epidemiology.

Their main topics of work include spinal fractures and fixation techniques, congenital heart defects research, spine and intervertebral disc pathology, congenital heart disease studies, spinal cord injury research, trauma and emergency care studies, and cardiac arrhythmias and treatments.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Common deletion variants causing protocadherin-α deficiency contribute to the complex genetics of BAV and left-sided congenital heart disease (2021), published in Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
  • Focused Strategies for Defining the Genetic Architecture of Congenital Heart Defects (2021), published in Genes
  • A predictive model of motor deficit in civilian ballistic lumbosacral spine injuries (2023), published in The Spine Journal
  • Home monitoring detects fetal supraventricular tachyarrhythmia recurrence during dose reduction of antiarrhythmic therapy (2020), published in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Biologically derived epicardial patch induces macrophage mediated pathophysiologic repair in chronically infarcted swine hearts (2023), published in Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors include Mostafa H. El Dafrawy, Christopher Johnson, Michael J. Lee, Edwin Ramos, and Bettina F. Cuneo.

Benson has repeatedly published in several academic venues, with the highest number of contributions to the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, followed by The Spine Journal, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication, and Genes.

Best Publications

  • Congenital Heart Disease Caused by Mutations in the Transcription Factor NKX2-5

    Jean Jacques Schott;D. Woodrow Benson;Craig T. Basson;William Pease

  • Genetic Basis for Congenital Heart Defects: Current Knowledge A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Congenital Cardiac Defects Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young

    Mary Ella M Pierpont;Craig T. Basson;D. Woodrow Benson;Bruce D. Gelb

  • Mutations in the cardiac transcription factor NKX2.5 affect diverse cardiac developmental pathways

    D. Woodrow Benson;G. Michael Silberbach;Ann Kavanaugh-McHugh;Carol Cottrill

  • Bicuspid aortic valve is heritable

    Linda Cripe;Gregor Andelfinger;Lisa J. Martin;Kerry Shooner

  • Congenital sick sinus syndrome caused by recessive mutations in the cardiac sodium channel gene (SCN5A)

    D. Woodrow Benson;Dao W. Wang;Macaira Dyment;Timothy K. Knilans

  • Constitutively active AMP kinase mutations cause glycogen storage disease mimicking hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Michael Arad;D. Woodrow Benson;Antonio R. Perez-Atayde;William J. McKenna

  • Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome : Current Considerations and Expectations

    Jeffrey A. Feinstein;D. Woodrow Benson;Anne M. Dubin;Meryl S. Cohen

  • Atenolol versus Losartan in Children and Young Adults with Marfan's Syndrome

    Ronald V. Lacro;Harry C. Dietz;Lynn A. Sleeper;Anji T. Yetman

  • NKX2.5 mutations in patients with congenital heart disease.

    Doff B. McElhinney;Elizabeth Geiger;Joshua Blinder;D. Woodrow Benson

  • Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Organization in Developing and Diseased Aortic Valves

    Robert B. Hinton;Joy Lincoln;Gail H. Deutsch;Hanna Osinska

  • Supraventricular tachycardia mechanisms and their age distribution in pediatric patients.

    Jae Kon Ko;Barbara J. Deal;Janette F. Strasburger;D.Woodrow Benson

  • Nkx2-5 Pathways and Congenital Heart Disease: Loss of Ventricular Myocyte Lineage Specification Leads to Progressive Cardiomyopathy and Complete Heart Block

    Mohammad Pashmforoush;Jonathan T Lu;Hanying Chen;Tara St Amand

  • Calmodulin mutations associated with recurrent cardiac arrest in infants

    Lia Crotti;Christopher N. Johnson;Elisabeth Graf;Gaetano M. De Ferrari

  • AHA/ACCF Scientific Statement on the Evaluation of Syncope: From the American Heart Association Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Nursing, Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and Stroke, and the Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group; and the American College of Cardiology Foundation In Collaboration With the Heart Rhythm Society

    S. Adam Strickberger;D. Woodrow Benson;Italo Biaggioni;David J. Callans

  • Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Feature Tracking for Strain Calculation With Harmonic Phase Imaging Analysis

    Kan N. Hor;William M. Gottliebson;Christopher Carson;Erin Wash

  • Bicuspid Aortic Valve: Identifying Knowledge Gaps and Rising to the Challenge From the International Bicuspid Aortic Valve Consortium (BAVCon)

    Hector I. Michelena;Siddharth K. Prakash;Alessandro Della Corte;Malenka M. Bissell

  • Inherited Arrhythmias A National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Office of Rare Diseases Workshop Consensus Report About the Diagnosis, Phenotyping, Molecular Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Approaches for Primary Cardiomyopathies of Gene Mutations Affecting Ion Channel Function

    Stephan E. Lehnart;Michael J. Ackerman;D. Woodrow Benson;Ramon Brugada

  • Electrocardiographic Features in Andersen-Tawil Syndrome Patients With KCNJ2 Mutations: Characteristic T-U–Wave Patterns Predict the KCNJ2 Genotype

    Li Zhang;Li Zhang;D. Woodrow Benson;Martin Tristani-Firouzi;Louis J. Ptacek

  • Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Is Heritable

    Robert B. Hinton;Lisa J. Martin;Meredith E. Tabangin;Mjaye L. Mazwi

  • KCNJ2 Mutation Results in Andersen Syndrome with Sex-Specific Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Phenotypes

    Gregor Andelfinger;Andrew R. Tapper;Richard C. Welch;Carlos G. Vanoye

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Benditt
David G. Benditt University of Minnesota
Lisa J. Martin
Lisa J. Martin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Alfred L. George
Alfred L. George Northwestern University
John J. Gallagher
John J. Gallagher Duke University
Carl L. Backer
Carl L. Backer Northwestern University
Christine E. Seidman
Christine E. Seidman Harvard University
Pippa Simpson
Pippa Simpson Medical College of Wisconsin
Katherine E. Yutzey
Katherine E. Yutzey Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jonathan G. Seidman
Jonathan G. Seidman Harvard University

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