 Dr. Frank Marcus 是位于Tucson 的Arizona大学医学院的内科教授。其专业主要是临床心血管病、心血管药理学和临床电生理学。Dr. Frank Marcus毕业于Columbia大学，并在Tufts 大学获得心血管病学的硕士学位。1953年以优异的成绩毕业于 Boston医学院。于 1953-1954 和1956-1958期间在Boston 的Peter Bent Brigham 医院分别担任实习医师和住院医师。于1957-1958年间在Peter Bent Brigham 医院的心血管科从事研究工作，以后在1959年于Georgetown 大学完成他心血管专业方面的学习。在Georgetown大学从事了一年的总住院医师后被任命为Georgetown 大学医学部D.C总院主要的负责人。他从1960年到1968年一直在这里工作。在此期间晋升为Georgetown 大学的副教授。1969年1月成为教授并主管Arizona 大学医学院的心血管科。1982年被任命为医学杰出教授并于1999年获得荣誉主席。他在美国内科学领域及心血管疾病的诊断领域已得到一致公认。
在1987-1988年他是美国心脏病学院Arizona分会的奠基人和第一主席，而且于1990-1991年就任大学心血管医生协会的主席。他所获得的荣誉中最杰出的是2003年Boston大学医学院校友奖以及2005年美国心脏协会和临床心血管病学会硕士临床医生奖，Dr. Frank Marcus一直是14种心血管杂志的编辑委员会成员之一，并为26家杂志担任顾问及评审。
他最初的研究主要集中在地高辛、乙胺碘呋酮和普罗帕酮等心血管药物的药理研究方面。后来转向心律失常的研究。他提出在心脏消融手术中使用射频能量。
目前，他是国家卫生研究所主持的致心律失常性右室发育不良/心肌病多中心研究的主要研究者。他发表有150篇摘要和270篇文章，并参与著书50部。目前他正和Gaetano Thiene博士合著有关于致心律失常性右室发育不良/心肌病方面的著作。
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Dr. Frank Marcus is Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine, in Tucson, Arizona.His area of expertise is Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Clinical Electrophysiology.He graduated from ColumbiaUniversityCollege and received a Masters Degree in Physiology from TuftsUniversity.He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine cum laude in 1953.He did his internship and residency at the PeterBentBrighamHospital in Boston from 1953-1954 and 1956-1958.He was a research fellow in cardiology at the PeterBentBrighamHospital from 1957-1958 and then completed his cardiology training at GeorgetownUniversityHospital in 1959.After a year as Chief Medical Resident at GeorgetownUniversityHospital he was appointed Chief of Cardiology at the Georgetown University Medical Service, D.C GeneralHospital.He held this position from 1960-1968.During this time he was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine at GeorgetownUniversityHospital.In January 1969, he became Professor and Chief of the Section of Cardiology at the University Of Arizona College Of Medicine.In 1982 he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Medicine and held this Endowed Chair until 1999.He is certified in the American Board of Internal Medicine and in the Subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Disease.
He was founder and first president of the Arizona Chapter of the AmericanCollege of Cardiology in 1987-1988 and was President of Association of the University Cardiologists from 1990-1991.Among his honors are the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Boston University School of Medicine in 2003 and Master Clinician Award of the American Heart Association, Council on Clinical Cardiology in 2005.He has been or is a member of the Editorial/Scientific Board of 14 Cardiovascular Journals and is a consultant and reviewer for 26 journals.
His initial research interests were directed to understanding the pharmacology of cardiac drugs including digoxin, amiodarone, and propafenone.Later he turned his attention to this investigation of cardiac arrhythmias.He introduced radiofrequency energy for cardiac ablation procedures.
At present he is the Principal Investigator of an NIH sponsored study “The Multi-Disciplinary Study of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia”.
He is the author of 150 abstracts, 270 articles in peer reviewed journals and has written over 50 book chapters.Currently he is coeditor with Dr. Gaetano Thiene of a book (in preparation) on Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy. |
