Kimberley C. Patton
· Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of ReligionUniversity of Washington · Faculty of Divinity
Active 1974–2026
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About
Kimberley C. Patton specializes in ancient Greek religion and archaeology, with research interests in material religion, iconography, sacrifice, ancient religion and healing, and the ecology of Mediterranean sanctuaries. She teaches and publishes in the history of world religions, particularly ritual studies, animal studies, religion, myth and the natural world, sacred art, aniconism and iconoclasm, dreams and dream interpretation, lamentation and weeping, religious laughter, angels and angelology, twins and twinship, childbirth and motherhood, and funerary cult. She is involved in the ongoing discussion in the academy of the goals, methods, and value of comparative study. She is deeply committed to the growth of Native American and indigenous studies in the study of religion, and to indigenous representation in scholarship and teaching in higher education. Her book Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity (Oxford, 2009), won the 2010 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in Religious Studies in the Analytical-Descriptive category. She is also the author of The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (Columbia, 2006). Patton’s research on the ritual dimensions of maternal mortality in a Neolithic burial at the site of Çatalhöyük in Central Anatolia, Turkey was published as a chapter co-authored with forensic archaeologist Lori Hager in Religion in the Organization and Transformation of a Neolithic…
Research topics
- Internal medicine
- Medicine
- Cardiology
- Intensive care medicine
- Law
- Medical emergency
- Physical therapy
- Pathology
Selected publications
Circulation · 2023 · 2264 citations
AIM: The "2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation" provides recommendations to guide clinicians in the treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation. METHODS: A comprehensive literature search was conducted from May 12, 2022, to November 3, 2022, encompassing studies, reviews, and other evidence conducted on human subjects that were published in English from PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and…
2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation
Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2023-11-30 · 711 citations
articleOpen accessHeart Rhythm · 2023 · 470 citations
Heart Rhythm · 2020 · 262 citations
Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2025-09-22 · 9 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 234 shared
Susan R. Heckbert
University of Washington
- 215 shared
Michael R. Gold
Medical University of South Carolina
- 211 shared
Jeanne E. Poole
University of Washington
- 196 shared
Richard A. Kronmal
University of Washington
- 188 shared
Merritt H. Raitt
VA Portland Health Care System
- 186 shared
Gust H. Bardy
- 186 shared
Daniel B. Mark
- 186 shared
Kerry L. Lee
Duke University
Education
- 2000
Ph.D., Religious Studies
Harvard University
- 1996
M.A., Religious Studies
Harvard University
- 1992
B.A., Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Awards & honors
- American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in Re…
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