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Nathaniel Reichek, MD FACC, FAHA 


 

Nathaniel Reichek, MD FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering,
Stony Brook University

Research Department
DeMatteis Center
St. Francis Hospital
100 Port Washington Blvd.
Roslyn, NY 11576
Phone: (516) 622-4561
Fax: (516) 622-4551
E-mail: Nathaniel.Reichek@chsli.org

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • BA, Columbia College, summa cum laude, New York, NY, 1961
  • MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, 1965
  • Medical Intern and First Year Resident, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, New York, NY, 1965-1967
  • Second Year Medical Resident, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, New York, NY, 1969-1970
  • Fellowship, Cardiology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1970-1972

BOARD CERTIFICATION

  • American Board of Internal Medicine, 1972
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, 1974

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

  • Cardiac Imaging: Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT, Echocardiography
  • Valvular Heart Disease

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Cardiac MRI stress perfusion methods
  • Coronary endothelial and microvascular dysfunction: relationship to plaque burden
  • Identification of Substrate for malignant arrhythmias:Beyond MADIT-II Coronary MR angiography
  • Cardiac MRI strain imaging for dobutamine stress
  • MRI plaque imaging
  • Vascular stiffness and diastolic dysfunction
  • Technical advances in coronary CTA

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia College (junior year), 1960
  • BA summa cum laude, Class Salutatorian, Columbia College, 1961
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1965
  • Best Doctors in America, Echocardiography and Cardiac MRI, 1992-2001
  • Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 1992
  • Laennec Lecturer, American Heart Association, 1993
  • The Country’s Best Heart Doctors, Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1994
  • Editorial Boards: Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology, Annals of Internal Medicine 1996-1999
  • NHLBI Parent Review Committee: Specialized Centers of Research (SCOR) in Ischemic Heart Disease, Sudden Death, Heart Failure, 1993-94
  • Cardiovascular Study Section, NIH 1995 -1998
  • Chairperson, Cardiovascular Study Section, NIH, 1998-2000
  • Chairperson, Special Study Section, Bioengineering , NIH, 2001
  • Chair, Special Study Section, Biomedical Engineering Partnership Grants, NIH, 2004
  • Akinboboye O, Reichek N, Bergmann SR, Chou RL. Correlates of myocardial oxygen demand measured by positron emission tomography in the hypertrophied left ventricle. Am J Hypertens 2003;16:240-3
  • Rutledge T, Reis SE, Olson M, Owens J, Kelsey SF, Pepine CJ, Reichek N, Rogers WJ, Bairey-Merz CN, Sopko G, Cornell CE, Matthews KA. Socioeconomic status variables predict cardiovascular disease risk factors and prospective mortality risk among women with chest pain. The WISE Study. Behav Modif 2003 Jan;27(1):54-67
  • Bairey Merz CN, Johnson BD, Sharaf BL, Bittner V, Berga SL, Braunstein GD, Hodgson TK, Matthews KA, Pepine CJ, Reis SE, Reichek N, Rogers WJ, Pohost GM, Kelsey SF, Sopko G; WISE Study Group. Hypoestrogenemia of hypothalamic origin and coronary artery disease in premenopausal women: a report from the NHLBI-sponsored WISE study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;41:413-9
  • Pitt, B, Reichek, N., Willenbrock, R., Zannad, F., Phillips, R., Roniker, B., Kleiman, J, Krause, S., Burns, D., Williams, G.H. Effects of eplerenone, enalapril, and eplerenone/enalapril in patients with essential hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy: The 4E-LVH study.   Circulation 2003;108:1831-1838.
  • Mankad S, Thomas Peterson J, Biederman RW, McGregor WE, Scalise D, Magovern JA, Han X, Stolarski C, Anderson B, Gerdes AM, Reichek N, Shannon RP. Matrix metalloproteinase inhibition limits remodeling and regional systolic dysfunction but not myocyte hypertrophy following myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003;41(6 Suppl B):371-2.
  • Druz,RS, Akinboboye O, Polepalle, DN, Ngai, KC, Nichols, KJ, Reichek, N. Myocardial stunning detected by decrease in post-stress ejection fraction on adenosine gated SPECT, J Nucl Cardiol. 2004;11:534-41.
  • Goldfarb JW, Mathew ST, Reichek N. Quantitative breath-hold monitoring of myocardial gadolinium enhancement using inversion recovery TrueFISP. Magn Reson Med. 2005;53:367-71
  • Wang Y, Moin K, Matthew ST, Akinboboye O, Reichek N . Myocardial First-Pass Perfusion Assessment Using A Rotational Long-Axis MR Imaging, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 22: 53-58, 2005.
  • Akinboboye O, Nichols K, Wang Y, Dim UR, Reichek N. Accuracy of radionuclide ventriculography assessed by magnetic resonance imaging in patients with abnormal left ventricles. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 2005;12:418-27
  • Goldfarb JW, Arnold S, Schapiro W, Reichek N. On the cause of spatial displacement of long T1 species in segmented inversion recovery prepared imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2005;54:481-5
  • Biederman RW, Doyle M, Yamrozik J, Williams RB, Rathi VK, Vido D, Caruppannan K, Osman N, Bress V, Rayarao G, Biederman CM, Mankad S, Magovern JA, Reichek N. Physiologic compensation is supranormal in compensated aortic stenosis: does it return to normal after aortic valve replacement or is it blunted by coexistent coronary artery disease? An intramyocardial magnetic resonance imaging study. Circulation 2005;112(9 Suppl):I429-36.
  • Wang Y, Moin K, Akinboboye O, Reichek N. Myocardial first pass perfusion: steady-state free procession versus spoiled gradient echo and segmented echo planar imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2005; 54:1123-9
  • Reichek, N. Cardiac MRI and COCATS2: Can We Get There From Here? , J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:2113-5.
  • Reichek N. MESA and Myocardial Function: Where is the boundary between risk factor and disease? J Am Coll Cardiol2006 (In Press).

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