Elizabeth A. Braunlin, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Fellowship Director
Mayo Mail Code 94
420 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN  55455
Phone: (612) 626-2755
Fax: (612) 626-2467
braun002@umn.edu

Dr. Braunlin is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program. She received her M.D. from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Braunlin completed her residency in Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston and a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Braunlin completed her Ph.D. in Physiology at the University of Minnesota. She joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1983. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology.

Dr. Braunlin’s clinical interests are prevention and treatment of post transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) after cardiac transplantation; the long term cardiac follow-up of individuals with mucopolysaccharidoses after marrow transplantation or enzyme replacement therapy; and prevention and management of cardiac failure in individuals with various forms of muscular dystrophy.

Her basic research interest involves investigation by cardiac ultrasound and histopathology of murine models of mucopolysaccharidoses both before and after novel therapies aimed at correction.

Selected Publications

Grewal S.  Shapiro E.  Braunlin E.  Charnas L.  Krivit W.  Orchard P. Peters C., Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Continued neurocognitive development and prevention of cardiopulmonary complications after successful BMT for I-cell disease: a long-term follow-up report. Bone Marrow Transplantation.  32(9):957-60, 2003.

Braunlin EA.  Stauffer NR.  Peters CH.  Bass JL.  Berry JM.  Hopwood JJ. Krivit W., University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455. Usefulness of bone marrow transplantation in the Hurler syndrome. American Journal of Cardiology.  92(7):882-6, 2003.

Braunlin EA.  Rose AG.  Hopwood JJ.  Candel RD.  Krivit W. Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Coronary artery patency following long-term successful engraftment 14 years after bone marrow transplantation in the Hurler syndrome. American Journal of Cardiology.  88(9):1075-7, 2001.

Braunlin EA.  Shumway SJ.  Bolman RM.  McDonald KM.  Ring WS.  Olivari  MT.  Nakhleh RE., Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. Usefulness of surveillance endomyocardial biopsy after pediatric cardiac transplantation. Clinical Transplantation.  12(3):184-9, 1998.

Braunlin EA.  Hunter DW.  Krivit W.  Burke BA.  Hesslein PS.  Porter PT. Whitley CB., Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic, Minneapolis 55455. Evaluation of coronary artery disease in the Hurler syndrome by angiography. American Journal of Cardiology.  69(17):1487-9, 1992.