Curriculum Vitae

Jack M. Rogers, Ph.D.

Personal Data
Citizenship USA
Birthdate May 24, 1963
Address The University of Alabama at Birmingham
  1670 University Blvd., Volker Hall B140
  Birmingham, AL 35294
Phone (205) 975-2102
email jmr@crml.uab.edu

Education
6/86 B.S. Bioengineering (Cum Laude), University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
12/90 M.S. Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
6/93 Ph.D. Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California. 
  Thesis: Finite Element Modeling of Cardiac Activation Dynamics.

Professional Experience
10/2004-present
 Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
10/98-9/2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
2/97-9/98 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
7/96-1/97 Instructor, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
10/94-6/96 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
5/94-9/94 Senior Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, California. Development, optimization, verification, and distribution of scientific software (primarily biochemistry applications). Cardiac electrophysiology research.
6/93-4/94 Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, California.
9/89-6/93 Graduate Research Assistant, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
7/86-6/93 Programmer Analyst, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, California. Technical support. Development, optimization, and maintenance of scientific software (primarily chemistry and molecular biology applications).
3/85-6/86 Scientific Programmer, Biosym Technologies, Inc., San Diego, California. Development of molecular modeling software.

Memberships

Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Biomedical Engineering Society
American Heart Association, Basic Science Council
Computer Society
Heart Rhythm Society

Awards and Special Recognitions

Phi Beta Kappa. 1986.
NIH Predoctoral Traineeship. 1989-1993.
Creative Computing Award, San Diego Supercomputer Center. 1991.
Third Prize, Student Paper Competition, Bioengineering Division of the ASME. 1991.
Finalist, Student Paper Competition, IEEE-EMBS. 1992.
Outstanding Teacher, UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2006, 2007.

Professional Activities

Critical reviewer of manuscripts for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, The Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Chaos, Progress in Biophysics, Circulation, Circulation Research, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Physiological Measurement, Measurement Science and Technology, Heart Rhythm, Journal of Physiology (London),  American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Pacing and Cardiac Electrophysiology, Journal of Veterinary Cardiology.

Grant reviewer for DoD, NIH, NSF, and NSERC.

Session organizer/chair for IEEE/EMBS, BMES.

Research Grants
9/97-8/00 Principal Investigator. "Geometric Determinants of Activation Patterns During Ventricular Fibrillation." The Whitaker Foundation. $195,675 total costs.
7/98-8/00 Principal Investigator. "Regional Variations in Cardiac Activation Patterns During Ventricular Fibrillation." The American Heart Association, Southeast Affiliate. $59,913 total costs.
9/99-8/02 Investigator. "Model and experimental studies of the evolution of the excitable gap for improved anti-tachycardia pacing." National Science Foundation. $256,276 total costs. 
9/00-8/03 Principal Investigator. "Mechanisms of VF Maintenance." The National Institutes of Health. $645,750 total costs
9/03-8/08 Principal Investigator. "Mechanisms of VF Maintenance." The National Institutes of Health. $1,037,750 total costs
1/06-11/09 Investigator. "Computer Assisted Mapping of Ventricular Fibrillation." The National Institutes of Health.
8/08-7/11Principal Investigator. "Simultaneous Mapping of Cardiac Wave Propagation and Deformation." National Science Foundation. $240,000 total costs.

Research Contracts
8/96-6/97 Massively Parallel Simulation of Cardiac Cell Dynamics. Army Research Laboratory.
8/97-6/99 Parallel Algorithm Development for the Study of Signal Propagation in a 3D Cardiac Model. Army Research Laboratory.
1/05-12/10
 Needle Electrode Fabrication for Intramural Recording. Novartis.

Invited Lectures
7/93 Finite Element Modeling of Cardiac Activation Dynamics. Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego.
4/94 The Effect of Muscle Fiber Curvature on Normal and Reentrant Cardiac Propagation. First World Congress on Computational Medicine, Austin, Texas.
5/95 Quantitative Analysis of Epicardial Cardiac Activation Wavefronts. Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego.
9/95 Wavefront Isolation Techniques for Analysis of Epicardial Activation Sequences During Ventricular Fibrillation. Second International Workshop on Self Defibrillation and Antiarrhythmic Drugs, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
4/96 Wavefront Based Analysis of Epicardial Activation Patterns During Ventricular Fibrillation. Defibrillation Workshop, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
6/96 The Effect of Muscle Fiber Curvature on Cardiac Propagation. First International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism, Tampere, Finland.
5/97 Graph Theoretical Models for Analyzing Reentry in VF Mapping Data. Applied Electrophysiology Workshop, Duke University.
6/97 Automatic Identification and Quantification of Reentry During High-resolution Mapping of Ventricular Fibrillation. Computational Biology of the Heart Workshop. San Diego Supercomputer Center.
10/97 Quantitative Characteristics of Reentrant Pathways During Ventricular Fibrillation. Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting. San Diego, California.
4/98 Computational analysis and simulation of cardiac arrhythmias. Defibrillation Workshop. Birmingham, Alabama.
1/01 Quantitative analysis of ventricular fibrillation. Vanderbilt University.
10/01 Ventricular geometry causes fragmentation of reentrant wavefronts. Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting. Durham, North Carolina.
9/03
 Experimental Studies of Ventricular Arrhythmias. Pattern Formation in Physics and Biology Workshop. Santa Barbara, California.
5/04
 Tissue Geometry and Wavefront Fragmentation. Heart Rhythm. San Francisco, California.
3/05 Experimental and Computational Investigation of Abnormal Electrical Waves in the Heart. Department of Chemical Engineering. University of Alabama.
5/05
 Global Activation Patterns during Ventricular Fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. New Orleans, Louisiana
5/05
 Ventricular Fibrillation Activation Patterns on the Surface of the Swine Heart. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. Snowbird, Utah
5/06 Optical Mapping of Ventricular Fibrillation. Electrophysiology Rounds. Toronto General Hospital.
11/07 Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation. Suzhou International Clinical Forum. Suzhou, China
10/08Panoramic Optical Mapping of Ventricular Fibrillation. Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting. St. Louis, Missouri.

Journal Articles

  1. Messina P, Baillie C, Felten E, Hipes P, Williams R, Alagar A, Kamrath A, Leary R, Pfeiffer W, Rogers J and Walker D. Benchmarking advanced architecture computers. Concurrency: Practice and Experience. 1990;2:195-255.
  2. Pfeiffer W, Alagar A, Kamrath A, Leary R and Rogers J. Benchmarking and optimization of scientific codes on the CRAY X-MP, CRAY-2 and SCS-40 vector computers. Journal of Supercomputing. 1990;4:131-52.
  3. McCulloch AD, Guccione JM, Waldman LK and Rogers JM. Large-scale finite element analysis of the beating heart. Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. 1992;20:427-49.
  4. Rogers JM and McCulloch AD. A collocation-Galerkin finite element model of cardiac action potential propagation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 1994;41:743-57.
  5. Rogers JM and McCulloch AD. Nonuniform muscle fiber orientation causes spiral wave drift in a finite element model of cardiac action potential propagation. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 1994;5:496-509.
  6. Costa KD, Hunter PJ, Rogers JM, Guccione JM, Waldman LK and McCulloch AD. A three-dimensional finite element method for large elastic deformations of ventricular myocardium: Part I cylindrical and spherical polar coordinates. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 1996;118:452-63.
  7. Rogers JM, Usui M, KenKnight BH, Ideker RE and Smith WM. A quantitative framework for analyzing epicardial activation patterns during ventricular fibrillation. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 1997;25:748-760.
  8. Rogers JM, Usui M, KenKnight BH, Ideker RE and Smith WM. The number of recurrent wavefront morphologies: a method for quantifying the complexity of epicardial activation patterns. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 1997;25:761-768.
  9. Bayly PV, KenKnight BH, Rogers JM, Johnson EE, Smith WM and Ideker RE. Spatial organization, predictability, and determinism in ventricular fibrillation. Chaos. 1998;8:103-115.
  10. Chattipakorn N, KenKnight BH, Rogers JM, Walcott GP, Rollins DL, Smith WM, and Ideker RE. Locally propagated activation immediately following internal defibrillation. Circulation. 1998;97:1401-1410.
  11. Bayly PV, KenKnight BH, Rogers JM, Hillsley RE, Ideker RE, and Smith WM. Estimation of conduction velocity vector fields from epicardial mapping data. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 1998;45:563-571.
  12. Huang J, Rogers JM, KenKnight BH, Rollins DL, Smith WM and Ideker RE. Evolution of the organization of epicardial activation patterns during ventricular fibrillation. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 1998;9:1291-1304.
  13. Rogers J M, Huang J, Smith W M, and Ideker R E. Incidence, evolution and spatial distribution of functional reentry during ventricular fibrillation in pigs. Circulation Research. 1999;84:945-954.
  14. Evans FG, Rogers JM, Smith WM, and Ideker RE. Automatic detection of conduction block based on time-frequency analysis of unipolar electrograms. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 1999;46:1090-1097.
  15. Chattipakorn N, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Influence of postshock epicardial activation patterns on initiation of ventricular fibrillation by upper limit of vulnerability shocks. Circulation. 2000;101:1329-1336.
  16. Skinner JL, Digerness SB, Spruell RD, Rogers JM, Katholi CR, Walcott GP, Ideker RE, Holman WL. Novel Methods to evaluate controlled reperfusion techniques in cardiac surgery. International Journal of Surgical Investigation. 2000;5:397-407.
  17. Rogers JM. Modeling the cardiac action potential using B-spline surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2000;47:784-791.
  18. Holman WL, Skinner JL, Killingsworth CR, Rogers JM, Melnick SB, Ideker RE, Digerness SB. Controlled postcardioplegia reperfusion: Mechanism for attenuation of reperfusion injury. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2000;119:1093-1101.
  19. Porras D, Rogers JM, Smith WM, and Pollard AE. Distributed computing for membrane-based modeling of action potential propagation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2000;47:1051-1057.
  20. Pollard AE, Lit LM, Rogers JM. Functional reentry's influence on intracellular calcium in the LRd membrane equations. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2000;47:1228-1236.
  21. Rogers JM, Huang J, Pedoto RW, Walker RG, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Fibrillation is more complex in the left ventricle than the right ventricle. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2000;11:1364-1371.
  22. Newton JC, Huang J, Rogers JM, Rollins DL, Walcott GP, Smith WS, Ideker RE. Pacing during ventricular fibrillation: Factors influencing the ability to capture. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2001;12:76-84.
  23. Huang J, Rogers JM, Killingsworth CR, Walcott GP, KenKnight BH, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Improvement of Defibrillation Efficacy and Quantification of Activation Patterns During Ventricular Fibrillation in a Canine Heart Failure Model. Circulation. 2001;103:1473-1478.
  24. White JB, Fotuhi PC, Pedoto RW, Chattipakorn N, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Reduction in atrial defibrillation threshold by a single linear ablation lesion. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2001;12:463-471.
  25. Walcott GP, Kay GN, Plumb VJ, Smith WM, Rogers JM, Epstein AE, Ideker RE. Endocardial wave front organization during ventricular fibrillation in humans. Journal of the Americal College of Cardiology. 2002;39:359-365
  26. Huang J, Skinner JL, Rogers JM, Smith WM, Holman WL, Ideker RE. The effects of acute and chronic amiodarone on activation patterns and defibrillationthreshold during ventricular fibrillation in dogs. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2002;40:375-383
  27. Rogers JM. Wavefront fragmentation due to ventricular geometry in a model of the rabbit heart. Chaos. 2002;12:779-788.
  28. Nanthakumar K, Huang J, Rogers JM, Johnson PL, Newton JC, Walcott GP, Justice RK, Rollins DL, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Regional differences in ventricular fibrillation in the open-chest porcine left ventricle. Circulation Research. 2002;91:733-740.
  29. Rogers JM, Melnick SB, Huang J. Fiberglass needle electrodes for transmural cardiac mapping. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2002;49:1639-1641.
  30. Rogers JM, Huang J, Melnick SB, Ideker RE. Sustained reentry in the left ventricle of fibrillating pig hearts. Circulation Research. 2003;92:539-545.
  31. Qin H, Kay MW, Chattipakorn N, Redden DT, Ideker RE, Rogers JM. Effects of heart isolation, voltage-sensitive dye, and electromechanical uncoupling agents on ventricular fibrillation. American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2003;284:H1818-H1826.
  32. Rogers JM. Combined phase singularity and wavefront analysis for optical maps of ventricular fibrillation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2004;51:56-65.
  33. Huang J, Rogers JM, Killingsworth CR, Singh KP, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Evolution of activation patterns during long-duration ventricular fibrillation in dogs. American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2004;286:H1193-H1200.
  34. Kay MW, Amison PM, Rogers JM. Three-dimensional surface reconstruction and panoramic optical mapping of large hearts. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2004;51:1219-1229.
  35. Nanthakumar K, Walcott GP, Melnick S, Rogers JM, Kay MW, Smith WM, Ideker RE, Holman W. Epicardial Organization of Human Ventricular Fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. 2004;1:14-23.
  36. Byrd IA, Rogers JM, Smith WM, Pollard AE. Comparison of conventional and biventricular anti-tachycardia pacing in a geometrically realistic model of the rabbit ventricles. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2004; 15:1066-1077.
  37. Huang J, Walcott GP, Killingsworth CR, Melnick SB, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Quantification of activation patterns during ventricular fibrillation in open-chest porcine left ventricle and septum. Heart Rhythm. 2005;2:720-728.
  38. Qin H, Huang J, Rogers JM, Walcott GP, Rollins DL, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Mechanisms for maintenance of ventricular fibrillation: Nonuniform dispersion of refractoriness, restitution properties, or anatomic heterogeneities. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2005;16:888-987.
  39. Kay MW, Walcott GP, Gladden JD, Melnick SB, Rogers JM. Lifetimes of epicardial rotors in panoramic optical maps of fibrillating swine ventricles. American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2006;291:H1935-1941.
  40. Rogers JM, Walcott GP, Gladden JD, Melnick SB, Kay MW. Continuous epicardial reentry in panoramic optical maps of ventricular fibrillation in the isolated swine heart. Biophysical Journal. 2007;92: 1090-1095.
  41. Nanthakumar K, Jalife J, Massé S, Downar E, Pop M, Asta J, Ross H, Rao V, Mironov S, Sevaptsidis E, Rogers J, Wright G, Dhopeshwarkar R. Optical mapping of Langendorff-perfused human hearts: establishing a model for the study of ventricular fibrillation in humans. American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2007;293:H875-880.
  42. Tabereaux PB, Walcott GP, Rogers JM Kim JJ, Dosdall DJ, Robertson PG, Killingsworth CR, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Activation patterns in Purkinje fibers during long duration ventricular fibrillation in an isolated canine heart model. Circulation. 2007;116:1113-1119.
  43. Rogers JM, Walcott GP, Gladden JD, Melnick SB, Ideker RE, Kay MW. Epicardial wavefronts arise from widely distributed transient sources during ventricular fibrillation in the isolated swine heart. New Journal of Physics. 2008;10:015004.
  44. Dosdall DJ, Tabereaux PB, Kim JJ, Walcott GP,Rogers JM, KillingsworthCR, Huang J, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Chemical ablation of the subendocardium and Purkinje system causes early termination and activation rate slowing of long duration ventricular fibrillation in dogs. American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2008;295:H883-889.
  45. Nielsen TD, Huang J, Rogers JM, Killingsworth CR, Ideker RE. Epicardial mapping of ventricular fibrillation over the posterior descending artery and left posterior papillary muscle of the swine heart. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology. 2009;24:11-17.
  46. Bourgeois EB, Fast VG, Collins RL, Gladden JD, Rogers JM. Change in conduction velocity due to fiber curvature in cultured neonatal rat ventricular myocytes. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2009;56:855-861.

Reviews, Book Chapters, and Editorials

  1. McCulloch AD, Guccione JM, Waldman LK and Rogers JM. Large-scale finite element analysis of the beating heart. In: Pilkington TC, Loftis B, Thomson JF, Woo SL-Y, Palmer TC and Budinger TF, eds. High-Performance Computing in Biomedical Research. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 1993;27-49 (Also published as Journal Article 3).
  2. Smith DW, Jorgensen J, Greenberg JP, Keller J, Rogers J, Garner H and Ten Eyck L. Supercomputers, parallel processing, and genome projects. In: Smith DW, ed. Biocomputing: Informatics and Genome Projects. New York: Academic Press. 1994;51-86.
  3. Rogers J, Courtemanche M and McCulloch A. Finite element methods for modelling impulse propagation in the heart. In: Panfilov AV and Holden AV, eds. Computational Biology of the Heart. New York: Wiley. 1997;217-33.
  4. Rogers JM, Bayly PV, Ideker RE and Smith WM. Quantitative techniques for analyzing high-resolution cardiac mapping data. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology. 1998;17:62-72
  5. Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Fibrillating Myocardium: Rabbit Warren or Beehive? Circulation Research. 2000;86:369-370.
  6. Rogers JM, Bayly PV. Quantitative analysis of complex rhythms. In: Cabo C, Rosenbaum DS, eds. Quantitative Cardiac Electrophysiology. New York: Marcel Dekker. 2002;403-428.
  7. Ideker RE, Rogers JM, Gray RA. Steepness of the restitution curve: A slippery slope? Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2002;13:1173-1175.
  8. Kay MW, Rogers JM. Mapping a moving target. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2003;14:1085-1086.
  9. Ideker RE, Rogers J, Huang J. Types of ventricular fibrillation: 1, 2, 4, 5, or 300,000. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2004;15:1441-1443.
  10. Ideker RE, Rogers JM. Human ventricular fibrillation: Wandering wavelets, mother rotors, or both? Circulation. 2006;114:530-532.
  11. Ideker RE, Dosdall DJ, Robertson PG, Rogers JM. Ventricular fibrillation: Discordant alternans and discordant results. Heart Rhythm. 2007;4:1079-1071.
  12. Ideker RE, Rogers JM, Pollard AE. Progress in modeling cardiac electrical activity: A long way from spherical cows. Heart Rhythm. 2008;5:1045-1046.
  13. Ideker RE, Rogers JM, Fast VG, Li L, Kay GN, Pogwizd SM. Can mapping differentiate microreentry from a focus in the ventricle? Heart Rhythm. 2009;6:1666-1669.

Technical Reports

  1. Rogers JM. Installation and optimization of the MADPAC molecular mechanics code on the Cray X-MP. San Diego Supercomputer Center. 1988;GS-A19544.
  2. Rogers JM, Porras D, Evans FG, Huelsing DJ, Pollard AE. Massively parallel simulation of cardiac cell dynamics. U.S. Army Research Office. 1997;TCN-95308.
  3. Pollard, AE, Rogers, JM. Parallel algorithm development for the study of signal propagation in a 3D cardiac model. U.S. Army Research Office. 1998; TCN-97163.

Conference Short Papers and Abstracts

  1. Rogers J. Supercomputer applications: helping users cope with tough programming problems. Proceedings of the ACM SIGUCCS. User Services Conference XVI. Long Beach, California. 1988;197-9.
  2. McCulloch AD, Guccione JM, Rogers JM and Hunter PJ. Three dimensional finite element analysis of stress and activation in the heart. Proceedings of the ASCE Eighth Engineering Mechanics Special Conference. Coumbus, Ohio. 1991;514-8.
  3. Rogers JM and McCulloch AD. A collocation/Galerkin finite element model of the electrical activity of the heart. Advances in Bioengineering. 1991;20:591-4.
  4. Rogers JM and McCulloch AD. The effect of nonuniform anisotropy on wavefront stability in a finite element model of cardiac action potential propagation. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Paris, France. 1992;606-7.
  5. Rogers JM and McCulloch AD. Scroll wave instability in a 3D model of cardiac impulse propagation. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. San Diego, California. 1993;815-6.
  6. McCulloch AD, Costa KD, Courtemanche MS, Rogers JM and Hunter PJ. Efficient computational methods for large-scale modeling of cardiac mechanics and electrical dynamics. Proceedings of the Workshop on Application of High-Performance Computing in Bioengineering. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1994.
  7. Clark DM, Rogers JM, Ideker RE and Knisley SB. Anodal and cathodal point stimulation produce action potential prolongation in regions of depolarization. Circulation. 1995;92:I-301.
  8. Rogers JM, Ideker RE and Smith WM. A new method for quantifying the motion of epicardial activation wavefronts. Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology. Vienna, Austria. 1995;797-800.
  9. Rogers JM, Usui M, KenKnight BH, Ideker RE and Smith WM. Wavefront isolation techniques for analysis of epicardial activation sequences during ventricular fibrillation. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Antiarrhythmic Drugs and Self Ventricular Defibrillation. Bratislava, Slovak Republic. 1995;37.
  10. Bayly PV, KenKnight BH, Chattipakorn N, Windecker W, Usui M, Rogers JM, Johnson CR, Ideker RE and Smith WM. Maximum entropy method estimation of spatial patterns of activation rate during ventricular fibrillation. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Montreal, Canada. 1995;287-8.
  11. Chattipakorn N, KenKnight BH, Bayly PV, Windecker W, Usui M, Rogers JM, Johnson CR, Ideker RE and Smith WM. Evolution of activation dynamics during early stages of electrically-induced ventricular fibrillation. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Montreal, Canada. 1995;285-6.
  12. KenKnight BH, Bayly PV, Chattipakorn N, Windecker W, Usui M, Rogers JM, Johnson CR, Ideker RE and Smith WM. Efficient frequency domain characterization of myocardial activation dynamics during ventricular fibrillation. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Montreal, Canada. 1995;349-50.
  13. Rogers JM, Usui M, Ideker RE and Smith WM. A method for quantifying the repeatability of activation wavefronts during ventricular fibrillation. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Montreal, Canada. 1995;357-8.
  14. Clark DM, Rogers JR, Ideker RE and Knisley SB. Intracardiac defibrillation strength shocks produce large regions of hyperpolarization and depolarization. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 1996;27:147A.
  15. Huang J, Rogers JM, KenKnight BH, Smith WM and Ideker RE. Quantitative analysis of how epicardial activation changes with time during ventricular fibrillation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 1996;27:266A.
  16. Huang J, Rogers JM, KenKnight BH, Smith WM and Ideker RE. Repeatability of activation during ventricular fibrillation. PACE. 1996;19:603.
  17. Windecker S, Walker RG, Rogers JM, Kay GN, KenKnight BH and Idecker RE. Defibrillation success is independent of the amount of activated myocardium at the time of shock delivery. PACE. 1996;19:735.
  18. Rogers JM and McCulloch AD. The effect of muscle fiber curvature on cardiac propagation. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing. 1996;34 Suppl. 1, Part 2:73-4.
  19. Rogers JM, Usui M, KenKnight BH, Ideker RE and Smith WM. The organization of ventricular fibrillation increases during the first 20 seconds. European Journal of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology. 1996;6 Suppl. 5:36.
  20. Bayly PV, KenKnight BH, Rogers JM, Ideker RE and Smith WM. Estimation of conduction velocity vector fields from 504-channel epicardial mapping data. Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology. Indianapolis. 1996.
  21. Rogers JM, Ideker RE and Smith WM. A graph theoretical framework for quantifying epicardial activation wavefronts during ventricular fibrillation. Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology. Indianapolis, IN. 1996.
  22. Rogers JM, Ideker RE and Smith WM. Stability of spiral wave reentry on curved surfaces. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1996.
  23. Huang J, Rogers JM, KenKnight BH, Rollins DL, Sims AL and Ideker RE. Quantitative analysis of the effects of dofetilide on ventricular fibrillation activation fronts and its relationship to defibrillation threshold in pigs. Circulation. 1996;94:I-224.
  24. Rogers JM, Huang J, KenKnight BH, Smith WM and Ideker RE. Stationary reentrant circuits are rare during ventricular fibrillation in pigs. Circulation. 1996;94:I-48.
  25. Windecker S, KenKnight BH, Walker RG, Cooper RA, Rogers JM, Walcott GP and Kay GN. Differential postshock activation pattern of successful and failed defibrillation shocks of the same shock strength. Circulation. 1996;94:I-568.
  26. Evans FG, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Detection of propagation block in cardiac mapping data. PACE. 1997;20(Part II):1233.
  27. Rogers JM, Huang J, Smith WM, and Ideker RE, Quantitative characteristics of reentrant pathways during ventricular fibrillation, Annals of Biomedical Engineering; 1997;25:S-62.
  28. Rogers JM, Huang J, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Quantitative characteristics of reentrant pathways change during the first 44 seconds of ventricular fibrillation. Circulation. 1997;96:I-122.
  29. Skinner JL, Spruell RD, Huang J, Rogers JM, Holman WL, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Intravenous amiodarone increases ventricular fibrillation organization without increasing wavelength. Circulation. 1997;96:I-746.
  30. Chattipakorn N, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Influence of postshock activation patterns on the initiation of ventricular fibrillation by shocks near the upper limit of vulnerability. PACE. 1998;21:855.
  31. Rogers JM, Huang J, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Functional reentrant wavefronts are not uniformly distributed on the epicardium during ventricular fibrillation. PACE. 1998;21:940.
  32. Vetter FJ, Rogers JM,  McCulloch AD. A Finite Element Model of Passive Mechanics and Electrical Propagation in the Rabbit Ventricles. Computers in Cardiology 1998, September 13-16, 1998, Cleveland OH. IEEE Press, 1998.
  33. Skinner JL, Digerness SB, Rogers JM, Spruell RD, Holman WL. Alterations of intra-myocyte ion content correlate with post-cardioplegia electrophysiologic recovery. Circulation. 1998;98:I-750.
  34. White JB, Fotuhi PC, Pedoto RW, Chattipakorn N, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Marked reduction in atrial defibrillation thresholds by radiofrequency ablation is caused by an increase in fibrillatory wavefront organization. PACE. 1999;22:725.
  35. Rogers JM. Modeling the cardiac action potential using B-splines. In: Proceedings of the First Joint EMBS-BMES Conference. Atlanta. 1999;1188.
  36. Pedoto RW, Rogers JM. Analyzing cardiac mapping data, object-oriented style. In: Proceedings of the First Joint EMBS-BMES Conference. Atlanta. 1999;306.
  37. Huang J, Rogers JM, Killingsworth CR, Walcott GP, Pedoto RW, Smith WM, KenKnight BH, Ideker RE. Heart failure changes activation patterns during ventricular fibrillation. Circulation. 1999;100:I-838.
  38. Walcott GP, Holman WL, Rogers JM, Melnick SB, Sims AL, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Repeatability of activation patterns on the epicardium during ventricular fibrillation in humans. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 1999;33:150A.
  39. Huang J, Rogers JM, Pedoto RW, Ideker RE. Dofetilide decreases functional reentry during ventricular fibrillation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 1999;33:152A.
  40. Huang J, Rogers JM, Walcott GP, Killingsworth CR, Holman WL, Sreenan KM, KenKnight BH, Ideker RE. Ventricular fibrillation chacteristics are different in different species. Circulation. 1999;100:I-310.
  41. White JB, Pedoto RW, Chattipakorn N, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Radiofrequency ablation of the right atrium reduces atrial defibrillation thresholds and changes fibrillatory activity. Circulation. 1999;100:I-65.
  42. White JB, Pedoto RW, Chattipakorn N, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Organizational changes in atrial fibrillation produced by a single radiofrequency ablation lesion remain local to the lesion site. Circulation. 1999;100:I-341.
  43. Newton JC, Evans FG, Chattipakorn N, Rogers JM, Gray RA, Ideker RE. Peak frequency distribution across the whole fibrillating heart. PACE. 2000;23:617.
  44. Newton JC, Huang J, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Properties that affect the capture efficacy of pacing during ventricular fibrillation. PACE. 2000;23:655.
  45. Rogers JM, Huang J, Pedoto RW, Walker RG, Ideker RE. Fibrillation is more complex in the left ventricle than the right. PACE. 2000;23:684.
  46. Huang J, Rogers JM, Pedoto RW, Ideker RE. Epicardial reentry is uncommon during ventricular fibrillation. PACE. 2000; 23:563.
  47. Lin F, Huang J, Ideker RE, Rogers JM. Septum acts as a partial barrier to wavefronts during ventricular fibrillation. Circulation. 2000;102:II 341.
  48. Huang J, Skinner JL, Rogers JM, Holman WL, Ideker RE. Amiodarone widens excitable gap during ventricular fibrillation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2001;37:135A-136A.
  49. Rogers JM. Ventricular geometry causes fragmentation of reentrant wavefronts. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 2001;29:S-47
  50. Rogers JM, Melnick SB, Yarger MD. Needle electrodes for transmural cardiac mapping. Annals of Biomedical Enginerring. 2001;29:S-47
  51. Nanthakumar K, Holman WL, Walcott GP, Melnick SB, Rogers JM, Kay MW, Smith WM, Ideker RE. The fate of epicardial wavefronts during human ventricular fibrillation. Circulation. 2002;106:II-667.
  52. Nanthakumar K, Johnson PL, Newton JC, Huang J, Killingsworth CR, Rogers JM, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Is there regional variation in capture of fibrillating swine left ventricle during pacing? Circulation. 2002;106:II-667.
  53. Huang J, Skinner JL, Rogers JM, Holman WL, Ideker RE. Oral amiodarone affects activation patterns of ventricular fibrillation differently from acute amiodarone. PACE. 2002;25:659.
  54. Nanthakumar N, Huang J, Rogers JM, Johnson PL, Newton JC, Walcott GP, Ideker RE. Velocity vector of wandering wavelets in large fibrillating hearts. PACE. 2002;25:635
  55. Rogers JM, Huang J, Melnick SB, Ideker RE. Sustained reentry in fibrillating pig ventricles. PACE. 2002;25:627.
  56. Chattipakorn N, Rogers JM, Ideker RE. Analysis of ventricular fibrillation patterns and defibrillation outcome. PACE. 2003;26:II-1077.
  57. Qin H, Kay MW, Chattipakorn N, Redden DT, Ideker RE, Rogers JM. Effects of heart isolation, voltage-sensitive dye, and electromechanical uncoupling agents on ventricular fibrillation. PACE 2003;26:II-1087.
  58. Rogers JM. Combined phase singularity and wavefront analysis for optical maps of ventricular fibrillation. Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Nashville, Tennessee.
  59. Kay MW, Rogers JM. Three-dimensional surface reconstruction and panoramic optical mapping of large hearts. Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Nashville, Tennessee.
  60. Nielsen TD, Huang J, Rogers JM, Killingsworth CR, Ideker RE. Effects of esmolol on activation patterns during ventricular fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. 2005;2:S142.
  61. Qin H, Huang J, Rogers JM, Walcott GP, Rollins DL, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Mechanisms for maintenance of ventricular fibrillation: Nonuniform dispersion of refractoriness, restitution properties, or anatomic heterogeneities. Heart Rhythm. 2005;2:S260.
  62. Rogers JM, Gladden JD, Walcott GP, Kay MW. Ventricular fibrillation activation patterns on the surface of the swine heart. Proceedings of the 2005 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. Snowbird, Utah.
  63. Kay MW, Rogers JM, Vetter FJ. Correlating epicardial curvatures and optically mapped propagation in whole-heart preparations. Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Baltimore, Maryland.
  64. Kay MW, Rogers JM. Epicardial rotors in panoramic optical maps of fibrillating swine ventricles. 2006 Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference. New York.
  65. Rogers JM, Walcott GP, Gladden JD, Melnick SB, Kay MW. Continuity of epicardial activation during ventricular fibrillation in the isolated swine heart. Circulation. 2006;114:II-330.
  66. Rogers JM, Reeves HD, Kay MW, Walcott GP. Propagation block at the onset of electrically initiated ventricular fibrillation. 2007 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Los Angeles, California.
  67. Dosdall DJ, Tabereaux PB, Kim JJ, Walcott GP,Rogers JM, KillingsworthCR, Huang J, Smith WM, Ideker RE. Chemical ablation of subendocardium and purkinje fibers in dogs causes early termination and activation rate slowing of long duration ventricular fibrillation.  American College of Cardiology 57th Scientific Session, Chicago, Illinois. 2008.

Theses Supervised

  1. Fenlong Lin. Effects of the Junction between the Right and Left Ventricles on Fibrillatory Activation Patterns. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2000.
  2. Philip M. Amison. Geometric Stability of Isolated Perfused Pig Hearts. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2003.
  3. Elliot Bourgeois. Change in Conduction Velocity due to 2D Fiber Curvature in Neonatal Rat Ventricular Myocytes. MS Biomedical Engineering.University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2006.
  4. Jong Kim. Temporal and Spatial Correspondence of Intramural Rotors and Epicardial Breakthrough Patterns during Ventricular Tachycardia and Fibrillation in the Swine Heart. MS Biomedical Engineering.  University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2007.

Courses Taught

BME 312. Biocomputing (Advanced Undergraduate). Scientific computing for biomedical engineers. Fall 2001-2008
EGR 150. Computer Methods in Engineering (Freshman/Sohpomore). Spring 2009.

Graduate Committee Membership

Frederick G. Evans. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 1998.
Darren Porras. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 1998.
Isabelle Banville. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 1998.
Anand Iyer. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 1999.
J. Bradley White. PhD Physiology. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2000.
Fenlong Lin. MS Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2000 (Chair).
Philip L. Johnson. PhD Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2001.
Isabelle Bannville. Phd Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2002.
Frederick G. Evans. Phd Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2003.
Nirov Patel. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2002.
Philip M. Amison. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham 2003 (Chair).
Hao Qin. Phd Physiology. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2004.
Anand Iyer. PhD Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2004
Israel A. Byrd. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2004
Xiaozhong Chen. PhD Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2006
Wei Kong. PhD Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2006
Israel A. Byrd. PhD Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2006.
Elliot B. Bourgeois. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham 2006 (Chair).
Jong Kim. MS Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham 2007 (Chair).

Elliot B. Bourgeois. PhD Biomedical Engineering. University of Alabama at Birmingham  (Chair).

University Committee Membership

UAB School of Engineering Computer and Network Committee. 2001-2008
UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering Web Site Committee. 2002-2005.
UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering Ungergraduate Curriculum Committee. 2005-2008.
UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering Strategic Planning Committee. 2007-2008. 
UAB School of Engineering Freshman Computing Course Committee. 2008.