EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, 2002–2003.

Cardiology Branch, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD., 1982–2001.

B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1972.

M.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976.

Internship and Residency, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1976–1979.

Cardiology Fellowship, Georgetown University and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Washington, DC., 1980–1982.

Eben E. Tucker M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Harborview Medical Center Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Attending Physician, Harborview Medical Center

Attending Physician, University of Washington Medical Center

BOARD CERTIFICATION

American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 1979.

American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, 1983.

American Board of Internal Medicine, Interventional Cardiology, 2003.

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

Valvular Heart Disease

Interventional Cardiology

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Acute Coronary Syndromes and Cardiac Arrest

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Summers, RM, Andrasko-Bourgeois, J, Feuerstein, IM, Hill, SC, Jones, EC, Busse, MK, Wise, B, Bove, KE, Rishforth, BA, Tucker, E , Spray, TL, Hoeg, JM, The evaluation of the Aortic Root by MRI: Insights from patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, Circulation 98(6):509–518, 1998.

Brittenham, GM, Griffith, PM, Nierhuis, AW, McLaren, CE, Young, NS, Tucker, E, Allen, CJ, Farrell, DE, Harris, JW, Efficacy of deferoxamine in preventing complications of iron overload in patients with thalassemia major, NEJM 331:567–573, 1994.

Cannon, III, RO, Dilsizian, V, O'Gara, PT, Udelson, JE, Tucker, E , Panza, JA, Fananapazir, L, McIntosh, CL, Wallace, RB, Bonow, RO, Impact of surgical relief of outflow obstruction on thallium perfusion abnormalities in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Circulation 85(3): 1039–1045, 1992.

Maynard C, Rao SV, Gregg M, Phillips R, Reisman M, Tucker E, Goss JR, The Role of Out-of Hospital Cardiac Arrest in predicting hospital mortality for precutaneous coronary interventions in the Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program (COAP), J. Invasive Cardiology 21:1–5, 2009.