Medical School - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
Dr. Spector's lab focuses on atrial fibrillation. The work is largely along two parallel lines of investigation: wave dynamics in atrial fibrillation, and mapping and ablation of AF. This work has resulted in 7 awarded patents and the formation of Dr. Spector’s two companies: VisibleEP - an educational and R&D software company and Coremap: a catheter and mapping system to guide AF ablation.
Professor of Medicine, University of Vermont
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory, UVMMC
Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Vermont
Representative publications from a total of 65:
Correa de Sa, D., Thompson, N., Stinnett-Donnelly, J., Znojkiewicz, P., Habel, N., Muller, J. G., Bates, J., Buzas, J. S., & Spector, P. S. (2011). Electrogram fractionation: The relationship between spatiotemporal variation of tissue excitation and electrode spatial resolution. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 4(6), 909-916. doi:10.1161/circep.111.965145
Spector, P. S., Correa de Sa, D., Tischler, E. S., Thompson, N. C., Habel, N., Stinnett-Donnelly, J., Benson, B. E., Philipp, B., & Bates, J. H. (2012). Ablation of multi-wavelet re-entry: general principles and in silico analyses. Europace, 14(Suppl 5), V106-V111. doi:10.1093/europace/eus278
Spector, P. S. (2013). Principles of cardiac electric propagation and their implications for re-entrant arrhythmias. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 6(3), 655-661. doi:10.1161/circep.113.000311
Carrick, R. T., Benson, B., Habel, N., Bates, O. R., Bates, J. H., & Spector, P. S. (2013). Ablation of multiwavelet re-entry guided by circuit-density and distribution: maximizing the probability of circuit annihilation. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 6(6), 1229-1235. doi:10.1161/circep.113.000759
Thompson, N. C., Stinnett-Donnelly, J., Habel, N., Benson, B., Bates, J. H., Sobel, B. E., & Spector, P. S. (2014). Improved spatial resolution and electrogram wave direction independence with the use of an orthogonal electrode configuration. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing J Clin Monit Comput, 28(2), 157-163. doi:10.1007/s10877-013-9508-8
Spector, P. S., & Habel, N. (2014). Principles of differential diagnostic pacing maneuvers: serial versus parallel conduction. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, 37(7), 909-922. doi:10.1111/pace.12425
Benson, B. E., Carrick, R., Habel, N., Bates, O., Bates, J. H., Bielau, P., & Spector, P. S. (2014). Mapping multi-wavelet reentry without isochrones: an electrogram-guided approach to define substrate distribution. Europace, 16(Suppl 4), Iv102-Iv109. doi:10.1093/europace/euu254
Carrick, R. T., Bates, O. R., Benson, B. E., Habel, N., Bates, J. H., & Spector, P. S. (2015). Prospectively quantifying the propensity for atrial fibrillation: a mechanistic formulation. PLOS ONE PLoS ONE, 10(3). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118746
Carrick, R. T., Benson, B. E., Bates, J. H., & Spector, P. S. (2016). Prospective, tissue-specific optimization of ablation for multiwavelet reentry. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 9, E003555. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.116.003939
Anter, E., Duytschaever, M., Shen, C., Strisciuglio, T., Leshem, E., Contreras-Valdes, F.M., Waks, J.W., Zimetbaum, P.J., Kumar, K., Spector, P.S., Lee, A., Gerstenfeld, E.P., Nakar, E., Bar-Tal, M., Buxton, A.E. (2018). Activation Mapping With Integration of Vector and Velocity Information Improves the Ability to Identify the Mechanism and Location of Complex Scar-Related Atrial Tachycardias. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 11(8). doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.118.006536
Books:
Spector P (2016). Understanding Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: A conceptuallguided approach (1st ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-118-90549-4
Spector P (2019).Understanding Atrial Fibrillation (1st ed). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-119-52461-8
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