Brenda E. Armstrong, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Department:
Pediatrics

Division:
Cardiology

Mailing Address:
DUMC 3195 Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-668-4000

Office Telephone:
919-681-2916

Fax:
919-681-8927

Training:
MD, Saint Louis University School of Medicine (Missouri), 1974

Fellowship:
Pediatric Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, 1976-1979

Residency:
Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 1975-1976

Clinical Interests:
Intensive care pediatrics, pediatric cardiac catheterization, interventional cardiology, clinical pediatric cardiology

Research Interests:
My current research interests involve gender and race-based disparities in medical education at all levels.  As the Dean for Medical School Admissions, I am also interested in medical education and training for students, residents, and fellows, including quality improvement initiatives in medical education, quality delivery of health services, recruitment of women and minorities into the medical field, and community outreach.  

Publications:
Committee on Institutional and Policy-level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the US Health care Workforce:  In the Nation's Compelling Interest.  Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.  2004.

Milazzo AS Jr, Sanders SP, Armstrong BE, Li JS. Racial and geographic disparities in timing of bidirectional Glenn and Fontan stages of single-ventricle palliation. J Natl Med Assoc. 2002 Oct;94(10):873-8.

Johnston T, Dryer K, Armstrong BE, Bengur AR: Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery in tetralogy of Fallot associated with abnormal mitral valve pathology. Pediatric Cardiology. In press.

Ungerleider RM, Kanter RJ, O'Laughlin MO, Bengur AR, Anderson PAW, Herlong JR, Li JS, Armstrong BE, Tripp ME, Garson A, Meliones JN, Jaggers J, Sanders SP, Greeley WJ. Effect of repair strategy on hospital cost for infants with tetralogy of Fallot. Ann Surg 1997; 225(6): 779-784.

Ungerleider RM, Kanter RJ, O'Laughlin M, Bengur AR, Anderson PA, Herlong JR, Li J, Armstrong BE, Tripp ME, Garson A, Meliones JN, Jaggers J, Sanders SP, Greeley WJ. Effect of repair strategy on hospital cost for infants with tetralogy of Fallot. Ann Surg. 1997 Jun;225(6):779-83; discussion 783-4.

Armstrong BE: Congenital Disease and Cardiac Surgery in Childhood. Part I: Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects. Current Opinion (Manuscript pending publication, January 1995).

Hopkins RQA, Armstrong BE, Peterson RJ, Oldham NH: Physiologic rationale for a directional cavopulmonary shunt. A versatile complement to the Fontan principle. J Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 90:391-398, September 1985.

Serwer GA, Armstrong BE, Anderson PAW: Continuous wave Doppler ultrasonographic quantitation of patent ductus arteriosus flow. J Pediatr 100(2):297-299, 1982.Case report in a child. Pace 3(1):96-103, 1980

Serwer GA, Armstrong BE, Sterba RJ, Anderson PAW: Alteration in carotid arterial blood velocity time profile produced by the Blalock-Taussig shunt. Circulation 63-1115-1120, 1981.

Serwer GA, Armstrong BE, Anderson :AW: Noninvasive detection of retrograde descending aortic flow in infants using continuous wave Doppler ultrasonography. J Pediatric 97:394-400, 1980.