Philip A. Ades, MD, FACC

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Biography:

Dr. Ades has made Cardiac Rehabilitation and Preventive Cardiology the focus of his research and clinical practice. He has conducted extensive research on the value of exercise training for subsets of patients with coronary heart disease. His research has been funded consistently by the National Institutes of Health, and he is widely viewed as both a national and international expert on Cardiac Rehabilitation. His Medical Progress review of “Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease” was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2001. His current work focuses on methods of treating obesity in patients with coronary heart disease and on treating and preventing disability in older heart patients. In 2001, Dr. Ades won a unique distinction as the first recipient of the annual Michael Pollack Award for Excellence in Research in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Dr. Ades has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. He is also Associate Editor of the journal Coronary Artery Disease and is a medical advisor to Eating Well Magazine. Dr. Ades lives in Shelburne, VT with his wife Deborah Rubin and their three children.

Major Research Interests:

Dr. Ades' research program has had consistent NIH funding since 1988.  His current research characterizes the methods and benefits of weight loss in obese coronary patients.  Other current research interests include intervention to treat and prevent disability in older patients with coronary artery diseaseand patients with chronic heart failure.  A recent review on "Cardiac Rehabilitation and the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease" in the New England Journal defines state-of-the-art practice in cardiac rehabilitation. Much of it based upon local clinical research.

Recent Grant Support

NHLBI RO1 Weight Loss in Obese Coronary Patients

NIH-NIA- RO1 - Resistance Training for Older Women with CHD

Associate Director, University of Vermont General Clinical Research Center (RR-109)

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Representative Publications from a total Greater Than 131

Ades PA, Ballor DL, Ashikage T Utton JL, Nair KS.  Weight training improves walking endurance in the healthy elderly.  Ann. of Int. Med. 1996; 124:568-572.

Ades, PA.  Cardiac rehabilitation and the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease.  N. Engl. J. Med. 2001; 345:892-902.

Ades PA, Kottke TE, Houston-Miller N, McGrath JC, Record NB, Record SS. Preventive  cardiology: how can we do better? 33rd Bethesda Conference, Bethesda, Maryland. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2002; 40:579-651.

Brochu M, Savage P, Lee M, Dee J, Cress ME, Poehlman ET, Tischler M,  Ades PA.   Effects of Resistance Training on Physical Function in Older Disabled Women with Coronary Heart Disease. J. Appl. Physiol. 2002; 92:672-678.

Ades PA, Savage PD, Tischler MD, Poehlman ET, Dee J, Niggel J.   Determinants of disability in older coronary patients. Am. Heart J. 2002; 143:151-156.

Ades PA, Savage PD, Brawner CA, Lyon CE, Ehrman JK, Bunn JY, Keteyian SJ.  Aerobic capacity in patients entering cardiac rehabilitation. Circulation 2006;113:2706-2712.

Williams MA, Ades PA, Hamm LF, Keteyian SJ, LaFontaine PT, Roitman JL, Squires RW.  Clinical evidence for a health benefit from cardiac rehabilitation: An update.  Am. Heart J. 2006; 152:835-841.

Toth MJ, Ades PA, LeWinter MM, Tracy RP, Tchernof A.  Skeletal muscle myofibrillar mRNA expression in heart failure: Relationship to local and circulating hormones.  J. Appl. Physiol. 2006; 100:35-41.

Savage PD, Ades PA.  The obesity epidemic in the United States: Role of cardiac rehabilitation.  Cron. ArteryDis. 2006; 17:227-231.

Toth MJ, Ades PA, Tischler MD, Tracy RP, LeWinter MM.  Immune activation is associated with reduced skeletal muscle mass and physical function in chronic heart failure.  Int. J. Cardiol. 2006; 109:179-187.