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Benjamin Reinking, MD

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics-Cardiology

Current Positions

  • Clinical Professor of Pediatrics-Cardiology
  • Medical Director, Fontan Survivorship Clinic, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
  • Medical Director, Single Ventricle Interstage Clinic, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
  • Faculty Co-Director, Boulware Learning Community, Carver College of Medicine

Education

  • BA in Summa cum Laude, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
  • MD in Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Resident in Pediatrics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  • Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology, University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Fellow in Echocardiography, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Palto Alto, California

Research Interests

  • Evaluation of the cardiac effects selective serotonin uptake inhibiters have on cardiac development in collaboration with Drs. Robert Roghair and Sarah Haskell. Current role: perform and interpret echocardiograms.
  • National Collaborative to Improve Care of Children with Complex Cyanotic Congenital heart Disease: A project of the Joint Council of Congenital Heart Disease
  • Improving outcomes in children with single ventricle heart disease

Licenses & Certifications

  • Pediatric Cardiology, American Board of Pediatrics
  • General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
  • Iowa Permanent Medical License
  • Illinois Permanent Medical License

Selected Publications

  • Pierick AR, Pierick TA, Scholz TD, Zimmerman MB, Reinking BE. (2022). Increased interstage morbidity and mortality following stage 1 palliation in patients with genetic abnormalities. Cardiol Young. Feb 9:1-6. DOI: 10.1017/S1047951122000166. PMID: 35137681.
  • Porayette P, Reinking B, Ashwath R. Rare association of absent pulmonary valve with intact ventricular septum and patent ductus arteriosus: Assessment in a newborn with CT Angiography. (2021). J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. Jan-Feb:15(1):e1-e2. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2020.07.001. PMID: 32807704.
  • Pierick AR, Pierick TA, Reinking BE. (2020). Comparison of growth and feeding method in infants with and without genetic abnormalities after neonatal cardiac surgery. Cardiol Young. Dec;30(12):1826-1832. DOI: 10.1017/S1047951120002887. PMID: 32972475.
  • Libell EM, Richardson JA, Lutz KL, Ng BY, Mockler SRH, Laubscher KM, Stephan CM, Zimmerman BM, Edens ER, Reinking BE, Mathews KD. (2020). Cardiomyopathy in limb girdle muscular dystrophy R9, FKRP related. Muscle Nerve. 2020 Nov;62(5):626-632. DOI: 10.1002/mus.27052. PMID: 32914449. PMCID: PMC7693230.
  • Rettenmaier, L. A., Kirby, P. A., Reinking, B. E., Viaene, A. N. & Hefti, M. M. (2020). Neuropathology of Congenital Heart Disease in an Inpatient Autopsy Cohort 2000-2017. Journal of the American Heart Association. 9 (7): e013575. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.119.013575. PMID: 32200729.
  • Srivastava, S., Braunlin, E., Brown, D., Cabrera, A., Frank, L., Glickstein, J., Johnston, T., Koenig, P., McDaniel, G., Printz, B., Reinking, B., Wong, P. & Carraccio, C. (2017). Curricula components for entrustable professional activities for the subspecialty of pediatric cardiology. Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. 44:17–32. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppedcard.2017.01.004.
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (2015). Training Guidelines for Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Programs. Pediatrics. 135 (6): e1536–e1537. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-1066.
  • Haskell, S. E., Hermann, G. M., Reinking, B. E., Peotta, V. A., Zhu, V. & Roghair, R. D. (2013). Sertraline exposure leads to small left heart syndrome in adult mice. Pediatr Res. 73 (3): 286-293. DOI: 10.1038/pr.2012.183. PMCID: PMC3607080. PMID: 23232669.
  • Wang, Q., Lin, J. L., Reinking, B. E., Feng, H., Chan, F., Lin, C., Jin, J., Gustafson-Wagner, E. A., Scholz, T. D., Yang, B. & Lin, J. J. (2010). Essential roles of an intercalated disc protein, mXinbeta, in postnatal heart growth and survival. Circulation Research. 106 (9): 1468–1478. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.109.212787. PMID: 20360251.
  • Reinking, B. E., Wedemeyer, E. W., Weiss, R. M., Segar, J. L. & Sholz, T. D. (2009). Cardiomyopathy in offspring of diabetic rats is associated with activation of MAPK and apoptotic pathways. Cardiovascular Diabetology. (8) 43. DOI: 10.1186/1475-2840-8-43. PMID: 19646268. PMCID: PMC2731081.