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Jeffrey M. Vinocur, M.D.

Jeffrey M. Vinocur, M.D.

Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology

Contact

Appointment (585) 275-6108
Fax (585) 442-0104
Administrative (585) 275-6096

Locations

936 Delaware Ave, Ste 100
Buffalo, NY 14209-1861

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Strong Memorial Hospital

601 Elmwood Ave
Rochester, NY 14642-0001

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About Me

Faculty Appointments

Clinical Assistant Professor (Voluntary) - Department of Pediatrics, Cardiology (SMD)

Credentials

Post-doctoral Training & Residency

Pediatric Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinical Fellowship (PGY-7), University of Toronto / Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario, Canada 2012 - 2013

Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2009 - 2012

Pediatric Residency, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut 2006 - 2009

Education

MD | University of Pennsylvania. Medicine. 2006

BA | Cornell University. Computer Science. 2002

Awards

Paul Gillette Award (co-recipient with Tamara Koopmann). 2015

Mark Snelling Outstanding Fellow Award. 2012

Frank Gougeon Fellowship. 2011 - 2012

Chair's Award for Special Contribution by a Resident. 2009

Primary Care Center Resident of the Year Award. 2009

Outstanding PL-2 Resident Award. 2008

First Place for Scholarly Pursuit in Basic Science. 2006

IBM Linux Scholar Challenge winner. 2002

Lockheed Martin Award for Outstanding Achievement and Academic Service (Computer Science). 2002

Cornell University Computer Science Prize for Academic Excellence and Leadership. 2002

Goldwater Scholarship. 2001

Research

• Quality improvement, performance improvement, and patient safety in many aspects of pediatric cardiology, including electrophysiology and cardiac surgery
• Use of multicenter clinical registries for quality improvement
• Management of inherited arrhythmia syndromes
• Management of fet...
• Quality improvement, performance improvement, and patient safety in many aspects of pediatric cardiology, including electrophysiology and cardiac surgery
• Use of multicenter clinical registries for quality improvement
• Management of inherited arrhythmia syndromes
• Management of fetal arrhythmias
• Various other aspects of pediatric cardiology and electrophysiology

Publications

Journal Articles

Outcomes after surgical coronary artery revascularisation in children with congenital heart disease.

Thammineni K, Vinocur JM, Harvey B, Menk JS, Kelleman MS, Korakiti AM, Thomas AS, Moller JH, St Louis JD, Kochilas LK

Heart.. 2018 September 104 (17):1417-1423. Epub 02/22/2018.

Trends in Long-Term Mortality After Congenital Heart Surgery.

Spector LG, Menk JS, Knight JH, McCracken C, Thomas AS, Vinocur JM, Oster ME, St Louis JD, Moller JH, Kochilas L

Journal of the American College of Cardiology.. 2018 May 2971 (21):2434-2446. Epub 1900 01 01.

The clinical and genetic spectrum of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: findings from an international multicentre registry.

Roston TM, Yuchi Z, Kannankeril PJ, Hathaway J, Vinocur JM, Etheridge SP, Potts JE, Maginot KR, Salerno JC, Cohen MI, Hamilton RM, Pflaumer A, Mohammed S, Kimlicka L, Kanter RJ, LaPage MJ, Collins KK, Gebauer RA, Temple JD, Batra AS, Erickson C, Miszczak-Knecht M, Kubuš P, Bar-Cohen Y, Kantoch M, Thomas VC, Hessling G, Anderson C, Young ML, Choi SHJ, Cabrera Ortega M, Lau YR, Johnsrude CL, Fournier A, Van Petegem F, Sanatani S

Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology.. 2018 March 120 (3):541-547. Epub 1900 01 01.

Long-Term Transplant-Free Survival After Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection.

St Louis JD, McCracken CE, Turk EM, Hancock HS, Menk JS, Harvey BA, Vinocur JM, Oster ME, Moller JH, Spector LG, Kochilas LK

The Annals of thoracic surgery.. 2018 January 105 (1):186-192. Epub 08/25/2017.

Hereditary arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies: decision-making about genetic testing.

Louis C, Calamaro E, Vinocur JM

Current opinion in cardiology.. 2018 January 33 (1):78-86. Epub 1900 01 01.

Brugada phenocopy associated with diabetic ketoacidosis in two pediatric patients.

Alanzalon RE, Burris JR, Vinocur JM

Journal of electrocardiology.. 2018 51 (2):323-326. Epub 10/28/2017.

Development of quality metrics for ambulatory pediatric cardiology: Infection prevention.

Johnson JN, Barrett CS, Franklin WH, Graham EM, Halnon NJ, Hattendorf BA, Krawczeski CD, McGovern JJ, O'Connor MJ, Schultz AH, Vinocur JM, Chowdhury D, Anderson JB

Congenital heart disease.. 2017 December 12 (6):756-761. Epub 07/25/2017.

Atypical long QT syndrome phenotype in heterozygous/homozygous Ala590Thr.

Smith JD, Vinocur JM

HeartRhythm case reports.. 2017 April 3 (4):219-223. Epub 01/27/2017.

Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia with Liver Herniation into the Pericardial Sac in a 30-Week Gestation Infant.

Patel N, Sollinger C, D'Angio CT, Vinocur JM, Ackerman KG, Katzman PJ

Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society.. 2017 20 (5):421-425. Epub 01/25/2017.

In-Hospital Vital Status and Heart Transplants After Intervention for Congenital Heart Disease in the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium: Completeness of Ascertainment Using the National Death Index and United Network for Organ Sharing Datasets.

Spector LG, Menk JS, Vinocur JM, Oster ME, Harvey BA, St Louis JD, Moller J, Kochilas LK

Journal of the American Heart Association.. 2016 August 95 (8)Epub 08/09/2016.

Factors Affecting Length of Postoperative Hospitalization for Pediatric Cardiac Operations in a Large North American Registry (1982-2007).

Al-Haddad BJ, Menk JS, Kochilas L, Vinocur JM

Pediatric cardiology.. 2016 June 37 (5):884-91. Epub 03/10/2016.

Case Report: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia with liver herniation into the pericardium in a 30-week gestation infant.

Patel N, Sollinger C, D'Angio CT, Vinocur JM, Ackerman KG, Katzman PJ

Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society.. 2016 March 28 Epub 03/28/2016.

A novel GJA1 mutation causing familial oculodentodigital dysplasia with dilated cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia

Wittlieb-Weber, CA; Haude, KA; MS; CGC; Fong, CT; Vinocur, JM.

Heart Rhythm Case Reports. 2016; 2: 32-35.

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in children: analysis of therapeutic strategies and outcomes from an international multicenter registry.

Roston TM, Vinocur JM, Maginot KR, Mohammed S, Salerno JC, Etheridge SP, Cohen M, Hamilton RM, Pflaumer A, Kanter RJ, Potts JE, LaPage MJ, Collins KK, Gebauer RA, Temple JD, Batra AS, Erickson C, Miszczak-Knecht M, Kubuš P, Bar-Cohen Y, Kantoch M, Thomas VC, Hessling G, Anderson C, Young ML, Cabrera Ortega M, Lau YR, Johnsrude CL, Fournier A, Kannankeril PJ, Sanatani S

Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology.. 2015 June 8 (3):633-42. Epub 02/24/2015.

Age-Dependent Sex Effects on Outcomes After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Lazaros, K.; Kochilas, MD.; Vinocur, JM.; Jeremiah, S.; Menk, MS.

J Am Heart Assoc. 2014; 3(1).

Two-ventricle repairs in the unbalanced atrioventricular canal defect spectrum with midterm follow-up.

Foker JE, Berry JM, Vinocur JM, Harvey BA, Pyles LA

The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.. 2013 October 146 (4):854-860.e3. Epub 07/18/2013.

Frequency of superior vena cava obstruction in pediatric heart transplant recipients and its relation to previous superior cavopulmonary anastomosis.

Aldoss O, Arain NI, Vinocur JM, Menk J, Ameduri RK, Bryant R, Kochilas LK, Gruenstein DH

The American journal of cardiology.. 2013 July 15112 (2):286-91. Epub 04/12/2013.

Surgical volume and center effects on early mortality after pediatric cardiac surgery: 25-year North American experience from a multi-institutional registry.

Vinocur JM, Menk JS, Connett J, Moller JH, Kochilas LK

Pediatric cardiology.. 2013 June 34 (5):1226-36. Epub 02/02/2013.

Surgical Placement of Permanent Epicardial Pacing Systems in Very Low-Birth Weight Premature Neonates: A Review of Data From the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium (PCCC).

Shepard CW, Kochilas L, Vinocur JM, Bryant R, Harvey BA, Bradley S, Decampli W, Louis JD

World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery.. 2012 October 13 (4):454-8. Epub 1900 01 01.

Putting the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium in context: evaluation of scope and case mix compared with other reported surgical datasets.

Vinocur JM, Moller JH, Kochilas LK

Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes.. 2012 July 15 (4):577-9. Epub 1900 01 01.

Fetal goiter mimicking anomalous pulmonary venous connection.

Vinocur JM, Sivanandam S

Congenital heart disease.. 2010 5 (5):482-5. Epub 1900 01 01.

Violations of the 12/23 rule at the mouse immunoglobulin kappa locus, including V kappa-V kappa rearrangement.

Vinocur JM, Fesnak AD, Liu Y, Charan D, Prak ET

Molecular immunology.. 2009 July 46 (11-12):2183-9. Epub 05/20/2009.

Letal, A tumor-associated NKG2D immunoreceptor ligand, induces activation and expansion of effector immune cells.

Conejo-Garcia JR, Benencia F, Courreges MC, Khang E, Zhang L, Mohamed-Hadley A, Vinocur JM, Buckanovich RJ, Thompson CB, Levine B, Coukos G

Cancer biology & therapy.. 2003 2 (4):446-51. Epub 1900 01 01.

Books

Clinical Insights: Adult Congenital Heart Disease (2015)

Chapter: Cardiac resynchronization therapy for the univentricular heart

Authors: J.M. Vinocur and E.A. Stephenson, (P.P. Karpawich, Ed.)

Publisher: Future Medicine, London, UK 2015

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology in Clinical Practice (2015)

Chapter: Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) Syndrome

Authors: J.M. Vinocur

Publisher: Springer London 2015