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Barbara Natterson, MD
Barbara J. Natterson-Horowitz
Cardiovascular Disease
Female
English
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
G65765
(310) 825-6301 Page operator
bnatterson@mednet.ucla.edu
Cardiology, UCLA School of Medicine, 1992 - 1995
Internal Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, 1990 - 1992
Psychiatry, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 1988 - 1990
Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 1987 - 1988
MD, UC San Francisco School of Medicine, 1987
| Atherosclerosis, Atrial Fibrillation, Cardiomyopathy, Cholesterol, Congenital Adult, Coronary Artery Disease, General Cardiology, Heart, Heart Valve Disease, Hypertension, Ischemia (Heart), Syncope, Transesophageal Echocardiogram |
Physician, Cardiology, Kurlan Heart Center , UCLA Women's Cardiovascular Health Center
- Cardiac Imaging
- Intersection Between Human and Veterinary Medicine
- Interventional Echocardiography
- Transesophageal Echocardiography
- Stress and Heart Disease
- Depression and Myocardial Infarction
- Emotional Stress and Sudden Death
Technical Research Interest:
I have worked on developing imaging methods to assist with cardiac cath lab based procedures. In addition to developing methods to improve the benefits of transesophageal echocardiography during interventions, I have also worked on using 4-dimensional Surface Echocardiography, Intracardiac Echocardiography and Pericardial Intracardiac Echocardiography to assist with procedures including radiofrequency ablations, device placement, endomyocardial biopsy and cardiac surgical procedures.
Over the past 7 years, I have been developing interdisciplinary programs that bring together the fields of veterinary medicine, human medicine, evolutionary and wildlife biology to explore the potential for a species-spanning approach to health. The potential for comparative clinical medicine and evolutionary medicine to yield new approaches and novel hypotheses for important health challenges is only now emerging. Some of the initiatives I have developed to expand the interface between these related but too often disconnected fields have included:
- Conferences bringing physicians and veterinarians together to discuss the shared diseases of different species
- Medical school course on comparative clinical medicine
- Novel research initiative pairing UCLA medical students with UC Davis veterinary students to explore important health concerns relevant to both humans and animals
- Evolutionary Medicine Month at UCLA - “Darwin on Rounds” Project
ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL TITLES
- Professor of Medicine, UCLA Division of Cardiology
- Director of Imaging, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center
BIO
Barbara J. Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., has been an attending cardiologist at UCLA Medical Center since 1994. She is the Director of Imaging for the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Professor of Medicine for the UCLA Division of Cardiology where she is actively involved in medical education and lectures regularly at the medical student, residency and fellowship levels.
Dr. Natterson-Horowitz completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard College and received a Master’s degree from Harvard University. She received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco.
In addition to her expertise in cardiology, she also is a psychiatrist. Dr. Natterson-Horowitz completed her psychiatry residency and served as Chief Resident at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She also completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the UCLA Department of Medicine and served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine. She completed her cardiology training as a Fellow in the Division of Cardiology at UCLA.
Dr. Natterson-Horowitz has been on the faculty of the Division of Cardiology since 1994. She combines her training in psychiatry and cardiology to focus on the relationship between psychological states and heart disease. She also serves as a cardiovascular consultant to the Los Angeles Zoo as a member of its Medical Advisory Board. She has provided medical consultation and imaging services to the zoo’s veterinarians, assisting with many primate and non-primate patients. Dr. Natterson-Horowitz lectures frequently on One Health and the potential for novel investigation, improved global health, and advancement in clinical care through collaborations between human physicians and veterinarians. In 2010, she founded the annual “Zoobiquity Conference: A Species Spanning Approach to Medicine,” a discussion among doctors treating the same diseases in their patients of different species. She also founded the Zoobiquity Research Initiative, a collaboration between faculty and students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis.
In June 2012, Knopf will publish Dr. Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers’ book: “Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing.”
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