Name: Linda M. Porterfield, Ph.D.

Birthdate: August 21, 1954

Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia

Marital Status: Married

Children: One

High School:

Revere High School, Revere Massachusetts, 1969-1973

Nursing/Undergraduate:

Soldier's Home School of Practical Nursing
Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1974-1975, L.P.N., September, 1975

Bunker Hill Community College
Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1976-1978, A.S.N., R.N., 1978

Memphis State University
Memphis, Tennessee, 1981-1983, B.S.N.,1983 TN License No 054993

Graduate School:

University of Tennessee, Department of Pharmacology
Memphis, Tennessee, 1983-1987, Ph.D., 1987

• Class Valedictorian, 1978
• Class Valedictorian, 1983
• Summa Cum Laude, 1983
• Memphis State University Nursing Alumni Scholastic Achievement Award, 1984
• Sigma Xi Research Recognition Award, 1987   
• ASPET Student Travel Award, 1987
• NHLBI Invitational Workshop, "Biology of Isolated Adult Cardiac Myocytes", 1987
• Who's Who in American Nursing
• Faculty 14th Annual Scientific Sessions of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology.
• Interview of the month: Critical Care Nurse. 1994; 14:81-87
• Faculty 1994, 1996 National Teaching Institute
• Faculty 17th Annual Scientific Sessions of NASPE&    
• Chair Patient Education Working Group, NASPE. 2000-2003
• Co-Chair Public Working Group, NASPE 2001-2002
• Reviewer NASPE CME Committee 2002

• Malden Hospital, Malden, Massachusetts, ICU/CCU, 1975-1978
• Somerville Hospital, Somerville, Massachusetts, ER, 1978-1981
• St. Peter's Home for Children, Memphis, TN, Education, 1983-1989 
• Editorial Board, Focus on Critical Care, 1988 - 1991
• Department Editor, "Pharmacology,"Advancing Clinical Care, 1988 - 1991  Consultant, Critical Care Nurse, 1989 - 1990
• Department Editor, "Pharmacology," Meditsinskaya Sestra, (Russian) 1989 - 1991
• Department Editor, "Problem Treatment," RN, 1989 - current
• Clinical Sponsor, Memphis State University, 1989 - current Clinical Sponsor, University of Tennessee, 1992 - current
• Department Editor, "Arrhythmia Consult," Critical Care Nurse, 1990 - current
• Reviewer, Heart and Lung, 1991 - 1992nbsp; 
• Reviewer, Patient Care, 1991 - current Editorial Board, Tennessee Nurse, 1992 - current
• Speaker Bureau, Knoll Pharmaceuticals, 1993- current Research Abstract Review Panel AACN, 1993  
• Clinical Sponsor, Medical Students, University of Tennessee, 1993 - current
• Reviewer, Drug Therapy, 1994 - present Research Abstract Review Panel, Global Connections: A World Congress of Critical Care, 1994
• Editorial Board, Critical Care Nurse, 1994 - present
• Contributor, Krames Communication Education Company

• Director, Cardiovascular Research, Arrhythmia Consultants, Memphis, Tennessee, 1989- present  
• Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, 1995- present.

1. St Jude Medical: Optimal Pharmacologic Therapy in Implantable Cardioverter Patients (OPTIC).
2. St. Jude Medical: Morphology Discrimination: Effects of Postural Changes on Template Matching.