College of Nursing and Allied Health

Annette Mattea Assistant Professor of Nursing University of St. Francis College of Nursing & Allied Health amattea@stfrancis.edu (815) 773-7819

EDUCATION

• Master’s in Nursing (MSN); Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Bachelor’s in Nursing (BSN); Rush University, Chicago, Illinois

SPECIALTY: Critical Care

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 9/02-1/03 Nurse Consultant for Heart Assist Device Program
  Edwards Hospital
  Naperville, Illinois
• 8/00-Present Assistant Professor
  College of Nursing
  University of Saint Francis
  Joliet, Illinois
• 2/96-7/00 Research Nurse Coordinator, Heart Assist Devices
  Rush Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program
  Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center Chicago, Illinois
• 6/94-2/96 Cardiac Transplant Clinical Nurse Coordinator
  Rush Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program
  Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center Chicago, Illinois
• 10/90-6/94 Staff Nurse, Surgical ICU
  Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center
  Chicago, Illinois
• 1/87-9/90 Staff Nurse, Surgical ICU
  St. Joseph Medical Center
  Joliet, Illinois

CLASSES

• Nursing 460: Professional Nursing Practicum (Critical Care)
  
• Nursing 462: Professional Nursing Seminar
  
• Nursing 462: Professional Nursing Seminar (On-line)
  
• Nursing 421: Pain Concepts and Management (On-line)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Cardiac Assist Devices
  
• Critical Care
  
• Cardiology
  
• Transplantation
  
• Quality of Life Issues

CERTIFICATION

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

PUBLICATIONS 1998 to PRESENT

• Grady K, Meyer P, Mattea A, Dressler D, Ormaza S, White-Williams C, Chillcott S, Kaan A, Todd B, Loo a, Klemme A, Piccione W, Costanzo MR. Predictors of Quality of Life 1 Month After Implantation of A Left Ventricular Assist Device. American Journal of Critical Care (11) 4: 345-352, 2002.
• Grady K, Meyer P, Mattea A, White-Williams C, Ormaza S, Kaan A, Todd B, Chillcott S, Dressler D, Fu A, Piccione W, Costanzo MR. Improvement in Quality of Life from Before to After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation (20) 6: 657-669, 2001.
• Piccione W, Kao W, Mattea A, Rodriguez R, Trohman R: Implantable Left Ventricular Assist Device Failure: A Distinctive Electrocardiographic Pattern Prior to Malfunction. J Thor Cardiovas Surg, 11(6): 1376-1378. 1998

ABSTRACTS

• Grady K, Meyer P, Mattea A, Dressler D, Ormaza S, White-Williams C, Chilcott S, Kaan A, Fu A, Todd B, Costanzo MR, and Piccione W: Change in Quality of Life from Before to After Discharge Post Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Circulation 102 (18) II-657, 2000.
• Grady KL, Meyer P, Mattea A, Costanzo MR, Piccione W, Dressler D, Ormaza S, White-Williams C, Chilcott S, Kaan A, Todd B, Fu A, Klemme, A: Predictors of Quality of Life In Patients At 1 Month After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Twentieth Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions for the International Society For Heart Lung Transplantation, 2000.
• Saltzberg M, Neumann A, Dumasius A, Mattea A, Heroux A, Kao W, Winkel E, Costanzo MR: Persistent Unexplained HeartMate Left Ventricular Assist Device Tachycardia: Using Echocardiography to Elucidate the Underlying Cause. Nineth Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 1999.
• Fischer S, Grossman A, Mattea A, Costanzo MR, Piccione W, Trenholm G: Four Year Series of Patients with LVAD-Related Infections: Clinical and Microbiologic Experience with Cardiac Transplantation. Seventeenth Annual Scientific Meeting for the American Society for Transplant Physicians, 1998.
• Kao W, Piccione W, Mattea A, Winkel E, Heroux A, Johnson M, Costanzo MR: Predictors of Post-LVAD Inotropic Requirements in Patients with Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension of Right Ventricular Failure. J Heart Lung Transplant; 16: 94, 1996.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

• American Nurses Association
  
• American Association of Critical Care Nurses

HONORS

• Ruth Schmidt Award for Nursing Excellence, Rush University (1990)

PRESENTATIONS

• Mattea,A. Presenter: Heart Failure 2000: How to maximize Care and Control Cost in
  the New Millennium, Heart Failure Symposium, Chicago, IL, Rush Presbyterian St.Luke’s Medical Center, June 2000.
• Mattea,A. Presenter: Management of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Patient for Home Health Nurses, Home Health Care Symposium, Chicago, IL, Rush Presbyterian St.Luke’s Medical Center, 2000, 1995
• Mattea,A. Presenter: Care of the patient with the HeartMate Vented Electric and Pneumatic Left Ventricular Assist Device (Presented Quarterly 1996-2000)
  
• Mattea,A. Presenter: HeartMate Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Pneumatic Console, Vented Electric, and the HeartPak Portable Driver. Department of Nursing, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, 1998.
• Mattea, A. Presenter: HeartPak Experience: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center. Tenth Annual HeartMate Investigators and Users’ Meeting. Phoenix, Arizona, 1997.

GRANTS

• Grady K, Mattea A, Todd B, Dressler D, Kaan AM, Ohler L, White-Williams C, Piccione W, Costanzo MR. Quality of Life Outcomes in Patients with a HeartMate LVAD. American Heart Association National Grant-in-Aid. $119, 790 (7/96-6/99)
  

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