Director of the Heart Failure Treatment and Transplant
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Saint Barnabas Health Care System
Lyons Avenue, Newark, NJ 07112
Tel. (973) 926-7205
Mark J. Zucker, MD, JD, Director of Heart Failure Treatment
and Transplant at the Saint Barnabas Heart Center at Newark
Beth Israel Medical Center, has been involved with heart
transplantation since 1987. Under his leadership, the Heart
Failure Treatment and Transplant Program at Newark Beth Israel
has ranked among the top ten programs in the nation in volume
for the past three years. More than 440 heart transplants,
31 lung transplants and over 150 left ventricular assist
device implants have been performed at Newark Beth Israel
Medical Center. The program’s results rival those at
nationally renowned centers with a one-year heart transplant
survival rate over the past few years in excess of 91 percent
and a three-year survival rate in excess of 80 percent.
Dr. Zucker attended Northwestern University’s School
of Medicine where he remained for his residency in internal
medicine followed by clinical and research fellowships in
cardiology. He subsequently joined the faculty at Loyola
University Medical Center as one of four attending transplant
cardiologists. He joined Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
in 1989 as Director of Cardiac Transplantation and Associate
Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School
of Medicine.
Dr. Zucker served as a Director of the original New Jersey
Affiliate of the American Heart Association and is a founding
member of the new 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. 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, served twice as the
Thoracic Representative for the mid-Atlantic states to the
United Network for Organ Sharing, and presently serves 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.
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