Vasiliki Dimas, M.D.

Medical School	University of Oklahoma College of Medicine (1999)
Residency	Children's Hospital of Oklahoma (2002)
Fellowship	Texas Children's Hospital (2005)
Fellowship	Texas Children's Hospital (2006)

• Heart (Cardiology)
• Interventional Cardiology
• Pediatrics

• Percutaneous therapies for the treatment of congestive heart failure

Featured Publications

Outcomes of transcatheter occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus in infants weighing 6 kilograms or less

Dimas VV, Takao C, Ing FF, Mattamal R, Nugent AW, et al JACC Cardiovasc Inerv December 2010 3(12) 1295-9.

Stent implantation for coarctation of the aorta in a premature infant via carotid cutdown as a bridge to surgical correction.

Dimas VV, Leonard SR, Guleserian KJ, Forbess JM, Zellers TM J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg April 2010 139 (4) 1070-1

Frequency of cardiac death in children with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Dimas VV, Denfield SW, Friedman RA, Cannon BC, Kim JJ, et al Am J Cardiol December 2009 104 (11) 1574-7

A prospective evaluation of nesiritide treatment of pediatric heart failure.

Jefferies JL, Denfield SW, Price JF, Dreyer WJ, McMahon CJ, Grenier MA, Kim JJ, Dimas VV, et al Pediatr Cardiol. Summer 2006 27 (4) 402-407

Leukocyte suppression is associated with improved clinical outcomes in children’s status after orthotopic heart transplantation

Kim JJ, Dreyer WJ, O’Brian Smith E, Price JF, Clunie S, Dimas VV, Jefferies JL, Rosenblatt H, Radovancevic B, Towbin JA, Denfield SW J Heart Lung Transplant February 2006 25(2) 195-9

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  Recipient of Educational Travel Grant (2004)
• American Academy of Pediatrics
  Basic Science AAP Young Investigator Award (2004)
• Owen M. Rennert Award
  Academic Excellence and Scholarly Achievement (2001)

• American Academy of Pediatrics/Member