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After earning his undergraduate degree at Purdue University,
Dr. Tuchek completed a master in philosophy at the University of
Illinois-Chicago and a doctorate of osteopathic medicine at the Chicago Osteopathic Medical
School. He interned at the Chicago Osteopathic
Medical Center
and Affiliated Hospitals and completed his residency, his
chief surgical residency and fellowship in thoracic and cardiovascular
surgery at the Loyola
University Medical Center. As a general surgical resident there
he received the prestigious Kaiser Award for outstanding contribution
to surgical education.
Dr. Tuchek is currently the chief of CV Surgery with
MacNeal Health Care Systems and the Medical Director of the Heart Center with Munster Health Care
Foundation. He is a clinical
assistant professor of Cardio, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at Loyola University Medical
Center. He continues to be actively involved
in the heart and lung transplant program at Loyola despite his busy
private practice at most of the major open heart programs in the
western suburbs of Chicago and Northwest Indiana.
Dr. Tuchek is recognized as one of the
country’s leading experts in Endovascular Stent Grafting of
Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms leading one of the busiest
endovascular practices in the U.S. Money
Magazine and Healthgrades.com recently recognized him as one
of America’s
best surgeons for Carotid Artery Disease and for Aneurysm Surgery. He is the primary investigator in
numerous endovascular trials including the Medtronic Talent Valor
Thoracic Stent Graft trial, the Cook Tx-2 Thoracic Stent Graft trial,
the Talent Abdominal trial (investigational device exemption
participant) and the Pivotal small aneurysm trial among others.
He has an active Cardiac and Thoracic practice with emphasis
on minimally invasive approaches to the heart, the lung, and in
vascular surgery. Dr. Tuchek has
pioneered Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy developing some of the most minimally
invasive treatments for hyperhydrosis. Dr. Tuchek lectures internationally
on topics ranging from Ethics in Medicine to minimally invasive heart
surgery. He also devotes some of
his time teaching other physicians how to perform state of the art
endovascular procedures.
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