He is presently a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Rutgers University - New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Zucker served as a Director of the original New Jersey Affiliate of the American Heart Association and was a founding member of the Heritage Affiliate of the American Heart Association for which he served as a member of the Board of Directors from 1998 to 2000. In 2004, Dr. Zucker was voted President/Governor of the New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Cardiology and served in that capacity from 2006 to 2009. In addition, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network for more than 15 years and is presently the Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Board. He has served three times as the Thoracic Representative for the mid-Atlantic states to the United Network for Organ Sharing, and has served as the representative from the ACC Board of Governors to the American College of Cardiology’s Subcommittee on Heart Failure and Transplantation. In addition to practicing medicine, Dr. Zucker is a graduate of Loyola University Law School and is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, New York and Illinois.
Advanced Heart Failure Heart and Lung Transplantation Mechanical Circulatory Support Amyloidosis Pulmonary Hypertension Stem Cell Therapy
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 1981
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1982
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1984
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1987
| Title: | The future direction of the adult heart allocation system in the United States |
| Authors: | Meyer DM, Rogers JG, Edwards LG, Callahan ER, Webber SA, Johnson MR, Vega JD, Zucker MJ, Cleveland JC Jr |
| Publisher: | Am J Transplant |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Issue: | 15:44-54 |
| Description: | doi: 10.1111/ajt.13030; PMID 25534445 |
| Title: | Ex-vivo perfusion of donor hearts for human heart transplantation (PROCEED II): a prospective, open-label, |
| Authors: | Ardehali A, Esmailian F, Deng M, Soltesz E, Hsich E, Naka Y, Mancini D, Camacho M, Zucker M, Leprince P, Padera R, Kobashigawa J |
| Publisher: | multicenter, randomized non-inferiority trial. Lancet |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Issue: | |
| Description: |
| Title: | Pre-operative speckle-tracking imaging to predict the need for right ventricular support in patients undergoing left ventricular assist device implantation |
| Authors: | Wang L, Zucker MJ, Cohen M, Baran DA, Camacho M, Gidea C, Zheng H, Amponash M, Chen C |
| Publisher: | J Cardiovasc Disease Research |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Issue: | 6:1-11 |
| Description: | doi:10.5530/jcdr.2015.1.1 |
| Title: | Mixed group of rhizobiales microbes in lung and blood of a patient with fatal pulmonary illness |
| Authors: | Lo SC, Hung GC, Li B, Lei H, Li T, Nagamine K, Tsai S, Zucker MJ, Olesnicky L |
| Publisher: | Int J Clin Exp Pathol |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Issue: | 8:13834-52 |
| Description: |
| Title: | Post-transplant survival in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients concurrently listed for single and double lung transplantation. |
| Authors: | Chauhan D, Karanam AB, Merlo A, Bozzay T, Zucker MJ, Seethamraju H, Shariati N, Russo MJ. |
| Publisher: | J Ht Lung Transpl |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Issue: | 35:657-660 |
| Description: |
| Title: | The future direction of the adult heart allocation system in the United States |
| Authors: | Meyer DM, Rogers JG, Edwards LG, Callahan ER, Webber SA, Johnson MR, Vega JD, Zucker MJ, Cleveland JC Jr |
| Publisher: | Am J Transplant |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Issue: | 15:44-54 |
| Description: | doi: 10.1111/ajt.13030; PMID 25534445 |
| Title: | Ex-vivo perfusion of donor hearts for human heart transplantation (PROCEED II): a prospective, open-label, multicenter |
| Authors: | Ardehali A, Esmailian F, Deng M, Soltesz E, Hsich E, Naka Y, Mancini D, Camacho M, Zucker M, Leprince P, Padera R, Kobashigawa J |
| Publisher: | randomized non-inferiority trial. Lancet |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Issue: | |
| Description: | for the PROCEED II Trial Investigators |
| Title: | Pre-operative speckle-tracking imaging to predict the need for right ventricular support in patients undergoing left ventricular assist device implantation |
| Authors: | Wang L, Zucker MJ, Cohen M, Baran DA, Camacho M, Gidea C, Zheng H, Amponash M, Chen C. |
| Publisher: | J Cardiovasc Disease Research |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Issue: | 6:1-11 |
| Description: | doi:10.5530/jcdr.2015.1.1 |
| Title: | Mixed group of rhizobiales microbes in lung and blood of a patient with fatal pulmonary illness |
| Authors: | Lo SC, Hung GC, Li B, Lei H, Li T, Nagamine K, Tsai S, Zucker MJ, Olesnicky L |
| Publisher: | Int J Clin Exp Pathol |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Issue: | 8:13834-52 |
| Description: |
| Title: | Post-transplant survival in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients concurrently listed for single and double lung transplantation |
| Authors: | Chauhan D, Karanam AB, Merlo A, Bozzay T, Zucker MJ, Seethamraju H, Shariati N, Russo MJ |
| Publisher: | J Ht Lung Transpl. |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Issue: | 35:657-660 |
| Description: |
| Title: | GNB3 C825T polymorphism and myocardial recovery in peripartum cardiomyopathy |
| Authors: | Sheppard R, Hsich E, Damp J, Elkayam U, Kealey A, Ramani G, Zucker M, Alexis JD, Horne BD, Hanley-Yanez K, Pisarcik J, Halder I, Fett JD, McNamara DM |
| Publisher: | Results of the multicenter IPAC study. Circ Ht Fail |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Issue: | |
| Description: | for the IPAC Investigators |
| Title: | Shared genetic predisposition in peripartum and dilated cardiomyopathies |
| Authors: | Ware JS, Li J, Mazaika E, Yasso CM, DeSouza T, Cappola TP, Tsai EJ, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Kamiya CA, Mazzorotto F, Cook SA, Halder I, Prasad SK, Pisarcik J, Hanley-Yanez K, Alharethi R, Damp J, Hsich E, Elkayam U, Sheppard R, Kealey A, Alexis J, Ramani G |
| Publisher: | NEJM |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Issue: | 374:233-41 |
| Description: | (for the IMAC-2 and IPAC investigators) |
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