Dr. Indik completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton University and pursued her PhD in astrophysics at MIT. After relocating to Tucson in 1986, Dr. Indik began post-doctoral work at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory. Within a few years, she decided to change directions and entered the University of Arizona College of Medicine, graduating with her MD degree in 1996. She completed her internship, residency and fellowship at the University of Arizona and has been on the faculty since 2003. It is here that she met Dr. Gordon Ewy, Dr. Frank Marcus and Dr. Peter Ott. “I immediately felt like I had found my second family,” says Dr. Indik. “This is where I wanted to be.”
Dr. Indik enjoys the biological sciences, physics and problem-solving challenges of cardiology and electrophysiology. She notes that electrophysiology has allowed her to blend her two passions – physics and improving the human condition through medicine. Her research at the University of Arizona focuses on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy, a genetic condition that predisposes people to sudden cardiac death and heart failure.
EDUCATION
Fellowship |
Electrophysiology, University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals, Tucson, AZ, 2003 |
Fellowship |
General Cardiology, University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals, Tucson, AZ, 2002 |
Residency |
Internal Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, 1999 |
Internship |
Internal Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, 1997 |
MD |
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ , 1996 |
| PhD |
Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1986 |
AB |
Astrophysics, Summa cum laude, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1982 |
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
ABMS Board of Internal Medicine
ABIM Board of Internal Medicine / Subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Disease
ABIM Board of Internal Medicine / Subspecialty Board of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS
Northwest Medical Center
University Medical Center
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Fellow, American College of Cardiology
American Heart Association
Heart Rhythm Society (formerly North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology)
LEADERSHIP ROLES
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine and Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ
Section Editor, ECG of the Month, American Journal of Medicine
Member, Editorial Board, Cardiosmart (an internet based educational division of the American College of Cardiology)
Section Editor, ACCIS, (an internet based educational division for the teaching of ECG reading skills as a part of the website, Ccardiosource, from the American College of Cardiology).
HONORS AND AWARDS
2007 American College of Cardiology – Proctor Harvey Teaching Award (awarded at the annual scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology March 2007)
Best Doctors in America database: 2006 to present
2006 Resuscitation Best Abstract Award – American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, AHA Council on Cardiopulmonary, Perioperative and Critical Care – November 2006
Selected to participate in the American College of Cardiology Foundation Emerging Faculty Program – 10/2006
Named to the Flinn Foundation and American Heart Association Endowed Chair in Electrophysiology - 2005
PUBLICATIONS
Indik J.H., Ott P., Butman S. Syncope with ST-segment Abnormalities Resembling Brugada Syndrome due to Reversible Myocardial Ischemia. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 2003;25: 1270-1273.
Indik J.H., Smith D, Sobonya R. and Marcus F. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia: A case report of identical twins with heart failure. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 2003;25:1387-1390.
Huang MH, Roeske WR, Hu H, Indik JH, Marcus FI. Postural position and neurocardiogenic syncope in late pregnancy. Am J Cardiol. 2003;92:1252-1253.
Indik JH, Donnerstein R, Berg M, Samson R and Berg R. Ventricular fibrillation frequency characteristics and time evolution in piglets. A developmental study. Resuscitation 2004;63:85-92.
Ott P and Indik J. Two hearts and one defibrillator. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 2004; 15: 1220-21.
Indik J and Ott P. An elderly woman with AV block in sinus rhythm and conducted a trial tachycardia. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 2005; 1:67-70.
Indik JH, Dallas W, Ovitt T, Wichter T, Gear K and Marcus F. Do Patients with Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Ventricular Arrhythmias Have Normal Right Ventricular Wall Motion? A Quantitative Analysis Compared to Normal Subjects? Cardiology 2005;104:10-15.
Indik JH, Donnerstein R, Kern K, Goldman S, Gaballa M and Berg R. Ventricular Fibrillation Waveform Characteristics are Different in Ischemic Heart Failure compared with Structurally Normal Hearts. Resuscitation 2006; 69: 471-477.
Indik JH, Pearson E, Fried K and Woosley R. Bazett and Fridericia QT correction formulae interfere with measurement of drug-induced changes in QT interval. HeartRhythm 2006; 9: 1003-7.
Indik JH, Donnerstein R, Berg R, Hilwig R, Berg M, and Kern K. Ventricular Fibrillation Frequency Characteristics are Altered in Acute Myocardial Infarction. Critical Care Medicine, 2007; 35:1133-8.
Indik, J, Wichter T, Gear K, Dallas W, and Marcus F. Quantitative Assessment of Angiographic Right Ventricular Wall Motion in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C). J Cardiovasc Electrophys. 2008; 19: 39-45.
Marcus FI, Sorrell V, Zanetti J, Bosnos M. Baweja G, Perlick D., Ott P, Indik J, He DS, Gear K. Accelerometer-derived time intervals during various pacing modes in patients with biventricular pacemakers: comparison with normals. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2007 Dec 30: 1476-81.
Berg RA, Hilwig RW, Berg MD, Berg DB, Samson RA, Indik JH, Kern KB. Immediate post-shock chest compressions improve outcome from prolonged ventricular fibrillation. Rususcitation 2008; 78: 71-76.
Indik JH, Peters CM, Donnerstein RL, Ott P, Kern KB, Berg RA. Direction of signal recording affects waveform characteristics of ventricular fibrillation in humans undergoing defibrillation testing during ICD implantation. Resuscitation 2008; 78:38-45.
Indik JH, Donnerstein RL, Hilwig RW, Zuercher M, Feigelman J, Kern KB, Berg MD, Berg RA. The influence of myocardial substrate upon ventricular fibrillation waveform: A swine model of acute and post-myocardial infarction. Critical Care Medicine, 2008; 36:2136-42. |