Ronald Peshock, MD

Assistant Dean
Professor
Radiology, Internal Medicine
Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-8018
Office Fax: 214-648-2678

ron.peshock@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Education

FellowshipParkland Memorial Hospital, Cardiology (1982)
ResidencyParkland Memorial Hospital, Internal Medicine (1979)
InternshipParkland Memorial Hospital, Internal Medicine (1977)
Medical SchoolUT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (1976)

Research Interests

Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Cardiovascular Imaging
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Detection of early atherosclerosis

Publications

Featured
Relationship between C-reactive protein and subclinical atherosclerosis: The Dallas Heart Study.

Khera A. de Lemos JA, Peshock RM, Lo HS, Stanek HG, Murphy SA, Wians FH Jr, Grundy SM, McGuire DK , Circulation , 2006; (113(1)):38-43

Featured
Left ventricular hypertrophy is more prevalent in blacks than whites in the general population. The Dallas Heart Study

Drazner MH, Dries DL, Peshock RM, Cooper RS, Klassen C, Kazi F, Willett D, Victor RG. , Hypertension , 2005; (46):124-9

Featured
African Americans and Caucasians Have a Similar Prevalence of Coronary Calcium in the Dallas Heart Study

Jain T, Peshock, RM, McGuire DK, Willett D, Yu Z, Vega GL, Guerra R, Hobbs H, Grundy SM and the Dallas Heart Study Investigators. , Journal of the American College of Cardiology , 2004; (44):1011-7

Human alpha B-Crystallin Mutation Causes Oxido-Reductive Stress and Protein Aggregation Cardiomyopathy in Mice

Rajasekaran NS, Connell P, Christians ES, Yan LJ, Taylor RP, Orosz A, Zhang XQ, Stevenson TJ, Peshock RM, Leopold JA, Barry WH, Loscalzo J, Odelberg SJ and Benjamin IJ. , Cell , 2007; (130):427-439

Volume catheter parallel conductance varies between end-systole and end-diastole.

Wei CL, Valvano JW, Feldman MD, Nahrendorf M, Peshock RM, Pearce JA. , IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering , 2007; (54):1480-1489

Corin I555 (P568) allele is associated with enhanced cardiac hypertrophy response to pressure overload in untreated African Americans.

Rame JE, Drazner MH, Post W, Peshock RM, Lima J, Wu X, Cooper RS, Dries DL. , Hypertension , 2007; (49(4)):857-64

Left ventricular hypertrophy, subclinical atherosclerosis, and inflammation.

Mehta SK. Rame JE. Khera A. Murphy SA. Canham RM. Peshock RM. de Lemos JA. Drazner MH , Hypertension , 2007; (49(6)):1385-91

Women have a higher ejection fraction than men independent of their smaller left ventricular volumes: the Dallas Heart Study.

Chung A, Das S, Leonard, Peshock R, Kazi F, Abdullah S, Canham R, Levine, B, and Drazner M. S , Circulation , 2006; (113):1597-1604

Honors/Awards

Kern Wildenthal Research Award

Co-recipient (1982)

Alpha Omega Alpha

(1976)

Phi Beta Kappa

(1972)

National Science Foundation Summer Traineeship

(1971)

Clark Foundation Scholarship

(1969)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging