Biography Yutao Xi, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Cardiac Electrophysiology Research LaboratoryTexas Heart Institute/St. Luke's Episcopal HospitalAdvanced Cardiac Arrhythmia CenterUniversity of Texas School of Medicine at Houston 6770 Bertner Ave MC2-255Houston, TX 77030 8323552573 (Office)8323558880 (Fax) Email: yxi@heart.thi.tmc.edu Affiliation with www.CNAHA.org Membership Director 2012-2013 Dr. Yutao Xi was born in Xianyang, China. He graduated from the Medical school of Yan’an University in 1999. He completed his post-graduate training at The School of Medicine of Xi’an Jiaotong University from 1999 to 2005, and received his Master’s and Ph.D in Internal Medicine in 2002 and 2005 respectively. He has worked at the Texas Heart Institute as a research associate since 2006. He is currently an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Xi’s research interests are electrophysiology and arrhythmia in heart failure and neuronal mechanism of atrial fibrillation. 席雨涛，出生于陕西咸阳。就读于延安大学医学院， 并于1999年获医学学士学位，随后就读于西安交通大学医学院，分别于2002年和2005年获医学硕士和医学博士学位。从2006年，他在德克萨斯心脏中心工作至今（Research Associate），目前为德克萨斯大学休士顿医学校区心脏科副教授（Assistance Professor of Medicine）。 席博士主要从事于心力衰竭相关的心脏电生理和心律失常， 以及心房纤颤的神经机制的研究。 Selected publications Liu Q, Xi Y, Terry T, So SP, Mohite A, Zhang J, Wu G, Liu X, Cheng J, Ruan KH, Willerson JT, Dixon RA. Engineered endothelial progenitor cells that overexpress prostacyclin protect vascular cells. J Cell Physiol. 2011. PMID: 21938725 Yang D, Xi Y, Ai T, Wu G, Sun J, Razavi M, Delapasse S, Shurai M, Gao L,Mathuria N, Elayda M, Cheng J. Vagal stimulation promotes atrial electrical remodeling induced by rapid atrial pacing in dogs: evidence of a noncholinergic effect. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2011. 34(9): 1092-9. PMID: 21793861 Li Z, Ai T, Samani K, Xi Y, Tzeng HP, Xie M, Wu S, Ge S, Taylor MD, Dong JW, Cheng J, Ackerman MJ, Kimura A, Sinagra G, Brunelli L, Faulkner G, Vatta M. A ZASP missense mutation, S196L, leads to cytoskeletal and electrical abnormalities in a mouse model of cardiomyopathy. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2010. 3(6): 646-56. PMID: 20852297 Samani K, Wu G, Ai T, Shuraih M, Mathuria NS, Li Z, Sohma Y, Purevjav E, Xi Y, Towbin JA, Cheng J, Vatta M. A novel SCN5A mutation V1340I in Brugada syndrome augmenting arrhythmias during febrile illness. Heart Rhythm. 2009. 6(9): 1318-26. PMID: 19648062 Xi Y, Wu G, Yang L, Han K, Du Y, Wang T, Lei X, Bai X, Ma A. Increased late sodium currents are related to transcription of neuronal isoforms in a pressure-overload model. Eur J Heart Fail.2009. 11(8): 749-57. PMID: 19584134 Samani K, Ai T, Towbin JA, Brugada R, Shuraih M, Xi Y, Wu G, Cheng J, Vatta M. A nonsense SCN5A mutation associated with Brugada type ECG and intraventricular conduction defects. Pacing and Clin Electrophysiol. 2009; 32 (9): 1231-6. PMID: 19719504 Wu G, Ai T, Kim JJ, Mohapatra B, Xi Y, Li Z, Abbasi S, Purevjav E, Samani K, Ackerman MJ, Qi M, Moss AJ, Shimizu W, Towbin JA, Cheng J, Vatta M. . alpha-1-syntrophin mutation and the long-QT syndrome: a disease of sodium channel disruption. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2008. 1(3): 193-201. PMID: 19684871 Du Y, Huang X, Wang T, Han K, Zhang J, Xi Y, Wu G, Ma A. Downregulation of neuronal sodium channel subunits Nav1.1 and Nav1.6 in the sinoatrial node from volume-overloaded heart failure rat. Pflugers Arch. 2007. 454(3): 451-9. PMID: 17273863 Shuraih M, Ai T, Vatta M, Sohma Y, Merkle EM, Taylor E, Li Z, Xi Y, Razavi M, Towbin JA, Cheng J. A common SCN5A variant alters the responsiveness of human sodium channels to class I antiarrhythmic agents. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2007. 18(4): 434-40. PMID: 17331104 Xi Y, Wu G, Bai X, Geng T, Aiqun M. Mechanical stretch-induced hypertrophy of neonatal rat ventricular myocytes is mediated by beta(1)-integrin-microtubule signaling pathways. Eur J Heart Fail. 2006. 8(1): 16-22. PMID: 16198630