Mark J Zucker MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
21 Perry Street Morristown NJ, 07960About
Dr. Mark Zucker is a cardiologist practicing in Morristown, NJ. Dr. Zucker has been in practice for 30 years and specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Zucker specifically specializes in the management of patients with advanced heart failure, cardiac amyloidosis, cardiac sarcoidosis, left ventricular assist devices, and heart transplants. He is the recipient of multiple honors and awards and the author of over 200 articles, abstracts, and book chapters. He has been a principal or co-investigator on dozens of research trials and has maintained an academic affiliation with Rutgers University where he serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine
Education and Training
Northwestern Uniiversity 1981
Board Certification
Cardiovascular Disease (Internal Medicine)
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Heart allograft rejection: detection with breath alkanes in low levels (the HARDBALL study).
- Prediction of heart transplant rejection with a breath test for markers of oxidative stress.
- A multicenter, prospective, randomized, double-blind trial of basiliximab in heart transplantation.
- Is toxoplasmosis prophylaxis necessary in cardiac transplantation? Long-term follow-up at two transplant centers.
- Detection of early renal transplant rejection by minimally-invasive monitoring of impedance variability.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of a bioprosthetic mitral valve: a smiling heart.
- Proof of concept: hemodynamic response to long-term partial ventricular support with the synergy pocket micro-pump.
- Simple method to eliminate interference between ventricular assist devices and
- ACCF/AHA/HFSA 2011 survey results: current staffing profile of heart failure programs, including programs that perform heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support device implantation: a report of the ACCF Heart Failure and Transplant Committe
- ACCF/AHA/HFSA 2011 survey results: current staffing profile of heart failure programs, including programs that perform heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support device implantation: a report of the ACCF Heart Failure and Transplant Committe
- Inhaled nitric oxide after left ventricular assist device implantation: a prospective, randomized, double-blind, multicenter, placebo-controlled trial.
- ACCF/AHA/HFSA 2011 survey results: current staffing profile of heart failure programs, including programs that perform heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support device implantation.
- Nocturia, sleep and daytime function in stable heart failure.
- Isolation and characterization of two novel bacteria Afipia cberi and Mesorhizobium hominis from blood of a patient afflicted with fatal pulmonary illness.
- Mixed group of Rhizobiales microbes in lung and blood of a patient with fatal pulmonary illness.
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Areas of expertise and specialization
Faculty Titles & Positions
- Clinical Professor of Medicine Rutgers University - New Jersey Medical School 1990 - Present
Professional Memberships
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Chest Physicians
Areas of research
Transplant Rejection, Heart Failure, Cardiac Amyloid, Mechanical Cardiac Support
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