Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Cardiology

Rob MacLeod, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Cardiology)
Associate Director, CVRTI
Associate Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute
Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Program, Bioengineering Department

Co-Director, NIH NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing

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Email:		 (801) 585-7596
(801) 585-6513
macleod@cvrti.utah.edu

Office Address:

Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute
72 South Central Campus Dr., WEB, Rm 4602
Salt Lake City, Utah   84112

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Education and Training:

  • Undergraduate Degree at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
  • Graduate Degrees
    • University of Graz, Austria (Masters)
    • Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (PhD)
    • Dipl.Ing., Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Research Interests:

  • Electrocardiographic mapping of the heart and body surface
  • Cardiac electrophysiology in the study of acute ischemia and repolarization abnormalities;
  • Computational electrophysiology in solving electrocardiographic forward and inverse problems;
  • Scientific visualization using interactive graphics tools and bioelectric signal processing.

Recent Publications:

  • Sutherland DR, Ni Q, MacLeod RS, Lux RL, Punske BB, Experimental measures of ventricular activation and synchrony.Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2008 Dec;31(12):1560-70
  • Lew S, Wolters CH, Anwander A, Makeig S, Macleod RS, Improved EEG source analysis using low-resolution conductivity estimation in a four-compartment finite element head model. Hum Brain Mapp 2008 Dec 31;():
  • McGann CJ, Kholmovski EG, Oakes RS, Blauer JJ, Daccarett M, Segerson N, Airey KJ, Akoum N, Fish E, Badger TJ, DiBella EV, Parker D, MacLeod RS, Marrouche NF, New magnetic resonance imaging-based method for defining the extent of left atrial wall injury after the ablation of atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol 2008 Oct 7;52(15):1263-71
  • Taccardi B, Punske BB, Macchi E, Macleod RS, Ershler PR, Epicardial and intramural excitation during ventricular pacing: effect of myocardial structure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2008 Apr;294(4):H1753-66
  • Geneser SE, Kirby RM, MacLeod RS, Application of stochastic finite element methods to study the sensitivity of ECG forward modeling to organ conductivity. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2008 Jan;55(1):31-40
  • Shome S, Lux RL, Punske BB, MacLeod RS, Ischemic preconditioning protects against arrhythmogenesis through maintenance of both active as well as passive electrical properties in ischemic canine hearts. J Electrocardiol 2007 Nov-Dec;40(6 Suppl):S150-9
  • Yilmaz B, MacLeod R , Generalized training subset selection for statistical estimation of epicardial activation maps from intravenous catheter measurements. Comput Biol Med 2007 Mar;37(3):328-36
  • Ghodrati A, Brooks DH, MacLeod R , Methods of solving reduced lead systems for inverse electrocardiography. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2007 Feb;54(2):339-43
  • Stinstra JG, Jolley M, Callahan M, Weinstein D, Cole M, Brooks DH, Triedman J, MacLeod RS, Evaluation of different meshing algorithms in the computation of defibrillation thresholds in children. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2007;2007():1422-5
  • Serinagaoglu Y, Brooks DH, MacLeod R , Improved performance of bayesian solutions for inverse electrocardiography using multiple information sources. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2006 Oct;53(10):2024-34
  • Ghodrati A, Brooks DH, Tadmor G, MacLeod R , Wavefront-based models for inverse electrocardiography. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2006 Sep;53(9):1821-31
  • Wolters CH, Anwander A, Tricoche X, Weinstein D, Koch MA, MacLeod R , Influence of tissue conductivity anisotropy on EEG/MEG field and return current computation in a realistic head model: a simulation and visualization study using high-resolution finite element modeling. Neuroimage 2006 Apr 15;30(3):813-26
  • Stinstra J, Roberts S, Pormann J, Macleod R, Henriquez , A Model of 3D Propagation in Discrete Cardiac Tissue. Comput Cardiol 2006;33():41-44
  • Stinstra JG, Hopenfeld B, Macleod RS, On the passive cardiac conductivity. Ann Biomed Eng 2005 Dec;33(12):1743-51
  • Yilmaz B, MacLeod RS, Punske BB, Taccardi B, Brooks D , Venous catheter based mapping of ectopic epicardial activation: training data set selection for statistical estimation. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2005 Nov;52(11):1823-31
  • Stinstra JG, Shome S, Hopenfeld B, MacLeod RS, Modelling passive cardiac conductivity during ischaemia. Med Biol Eng Comput 2005 Nov;43(6):776-82
  • MacLeod RS, Shome S, Stinstra J, Punske BB, Hopenfeld B, Mechanisms of ischemia-induced ST-segment changes. J Electrocardiol 2005 Oct;38(4 Suppl):8-13
  • Hopenfeld B, Stinstra JG, MacLeod RS, The effect of conductivity on ST-segment epicardial potentials arising from subendocardial ischemia. Ann Biomed Eng 2005 Jun;33(6):751-63

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