Entry Year: 1994
Graduation Year: 2002
Currently: Clinical Fellow, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Undergraduate: Texas A&M University
Laboratory: Dr. Mariappan Muthuchamy, Medical Physiology
Thesis: "Molecular mechanisms of cardiac muscle contractility, Role of myofilament proteins Residency: Internal Medicine", Duke University

Publications

• Tong, CW, Kolomenskii, A, Lioubimov, VA, Schuessler, HA, Trache, A, Granger, HJ and Muthuchamy, M. "Measurements of the cross-bridge attachment/detachment process within intact sarcomeres by surface plasmon resonance." Biochemistry 40: 13915-24., 2001.
• Gaffin, RD, Tong, CW, Zawieja, DC, Hewett, TE, Klevitsky, R, Robbins, J, Muthuchamy, M, Kolomenskii, A, Lioubimov, VA, Schuessler, HA, Trache, A and Granger., HJ. "Charged residue alterations in the inner-core domain and carboxy-terminus of alpha-tropomyosin differentially affect mouse cardiac muscle contractility." J Physiol 561: 777-91, 2004.
• Tong, CW, Gaffin, RD, Zawieja, DC, Muthuchamy, M, Kolomenskii, A, Lioubimov, VA, Schuessler, Trache, A and Granger, HJ. "Roles of phosphorylation of myosin binding protein-C and troponin I in mouse cardiac muscle twitch dynamics. "J Physiol 558:927-34, 2004.