Contact Information:

Email: peter.bowers@yale.edu
Telephone Number: (203) 737-4422
Fax: (203)737-1761

295 Congress Ave.
BCMM 147
New Haven, CT 06510

Research Interests:

The molecular genetics of congenital cardiovascular malformations.

Board Certification:

• National Board of Medical Examiners Board Certified
• American Board of Pediatrics - General Pediatrics Board Certified
• American Board of Pediatrics - Pediatric Cardiology Board Certified

Honors, Awards and Distinctions:

• 1984 Summer Student Research Fellow, Hartford Hospital
• 1986-1987 Student Research Assistant, Colby College
• 1987Cum Laude, Colby College
• 1987, 1989 Sigma Xi Research Society, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
• 1988 Medical Student Summer Scholar, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
• 1990-1991 Pediatric Scholars Program, University of Connecticut School of Medicine 
• 1993 Young Investigator Travel Award, American Heart Association
• 1993, 1994 Outstanding House Officer Award in Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine\
• 1993-1994 Gilbert Forbes Fellowship Award, University of Rochester School of Medicine
• 1993-1994 Resident Research Grant, American Academy of Pediatrics
• 1994-1995 Samuel W Clausen Research Fellowship Award, University of Rochester School of Medicine
• 1995 Resident Research Award, Honorable Mention, American Academy of Pediatrics
• 1996 Fellow’s Basic Science Research Award, Society for Pediatric Research
• 1997 Affiliate Travel Award, American College of Cardiology
• 1998 Pediatric Fellows Teaching Award, Yale University School of Medicine

Publications:

Original Research

Bowers PN, Bowers GN Jr, and McComb R: Comparisons of 17 lots of 2-oxoglutarate, and specifications for the use of this substrate in reference methods.Clinical Chemistry 1985;31(6):812-818.

Klein-Nulend J, Bowers PN, and Raisz LG: Evidence that adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate mediates hormonal stimulation of prostaglandin production in cultured mouse parietal bones. Endocrinology 1990;126:1070-1075.

DiMario FJ, Bowers PN, Jagjivan B: Analysis of skull anthropometric measurements in patients with neurofibromatosis type-1. Investigative Radiology 1993;28:116-120.

Bowers PN, Harris JP, Truesdell S, and Stewart S: Delayed hemopericardium and cardiac tamponade after blunt chest trauma. Pediatric Emergency Care 1994;10(4):222-224.

Bowers PN, Tinney JP, and Keller BB: Nitroprusside selectively reduces ventricular preload in the stage 21 chick embryo. Cardiovascular Research 1996; 31: E132-E138.

LeHoullier PF, Bowers PN, and Harris JP: Coxsackie virus B myocarditis presenting as a myocardial infarction in a newborn infant.  J Perinat 1996;16(5): 403-405.

Bowers PN, Fields J, Schwartz D, Rosenfeld LR, Nehgme R: Amiodarone induced pulmonary fibrosis in infancy. PACE 1998; 21: 1665-1667. Roth TC, Chaloupka JC,

Bowers PN, Wecht DA, Awad IA: Endovascular coil embolization of metachronous mycotic aneurysms. Interventional Neuroradiology 1998; 4: 143-150.

Kosaki R, Gebbia M, Kosaki K, Lewin M, Bowers PN, Towbin JA, Casey B: Left-right axis malformations associated with mutations in ACVR2B, the gene for human activin receptor type IIB.Am J Med Genet 82: 70-76 (1999).

Bowers PN, Yoshigi M, Tinney JP, and Keller BB: The endogenous nitric oxide pathway in the embryonic circulation. Pediatric Research (submitted).

Abstracts, Reviews and Book Chapters

Bowers PN, Tinney JP, and Keller BB: Nitroprusside selectively reduces preload in the stage 21 chick embryo. Circulation 1993;88(4,2):I-148.

Bowers PN, Tinney JP, and Keller BB: Endogenous nitric oxide from L-arginine reduces preload in stage 21 chick embryos. Pediatric Research 1995; 37: (4,2): 21A.

Bowers PN, Yoon J, Horwich A, and Brueckner M: Analysis of a candidate mouse IV gene, C8.Pediatric Research 1996;39:(4,2):23A.

Bowers PN, Nelson-William C, Casey B, Lifton RP, Brueckner M: The identification, chromosomal localization and mutational analysis of human left-right dynein in patients with heterotaxia.Circulation, 1998.

Bowers PN, Brueckner M, Yost HJ: Laterality disturbances.Progress in Pediatric Cardiology 1996; 6: 53-62.

Bowers PN, Brueckner M, Yost HJ: The genetics of left-right development and heterotaxia.Seminars in Perinatology 20(6): 577-588, 1996.

Bowers PN: Pediatric Cardiology in Principles of clinical medicine: core curriculum for the third year of medical school. Editors, Illig K, Shipley LJ, and Kaczorowski JM