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After earning his undergraduate degree at Purdue
University, Dr. Tuchek completed a master’s degree from Indiana University
- Purdue University Indianapolis, a master’s degree in philosophy
from the University of Illinois at Chicago,
and a doctorate of osteopathic medicine at the Chicago Osteopathic
Medical School. He interned at the Chicago Osteopathic
Medical Center
and completed his general surgery residency, chief surgical residency,
and cardiothoracic and vascular surgery fellowship all at Loyola University
Medical Center
in Chicago. As a general surgery resident there,
he received the prestigious Kaiser Award for outstanding contribution
to surgical education.
Dr. Tuchek is currently the chief of cardiovascular
surgery with MacNeal Health Care Systems. He is a clinical assistant professor
of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at Loyola University
Medical Center
where he directs the thoracic aortic stent graft program. He continues to be actively involved
in the heart lung transplant program at Loyola despite his busy private
practice at most of the major open heart programs in the western
suburbs of Chicago, northwest Indiana, and eastern Iowa.
Dr. Tuchek is recognized as one of the country’s
foremost experts in endovascular stent grafting of thoracic and
abdominal aortic aneurysms leading one of the busiest endovascular
practices in the United
States. Money Magazine and HealthGrades recently recognized him as one of America’s
best surgeons for carotid artery disease and for aneurysm repair.
Dr. Tuchek
is the primary investigator in numerous endovascular trials including
the Medtronic Talent Valor 1 Thoracic Stent Graft Trial (where he was
the leading enroller in the U.S.), the Medtronic Valiant Valor 2
Thoracic Stent Graft Trial (currently the leading enroller in the
U.S.), the Endurant Suprarenal Fixation Stent
Graft Trial (he was the leading enroller in the U.S. and has placed
more endurant stentgrafts
than anyone in the country), the
Medtronic Thoracic Aortic Dissection Trial, and the Pivotal Small
Aneurysm Trial. He recently
performed the first Talent abdominal stent graft procedure in the United States after it became FDA
approved and performed one of the first Medtronic Talent thoracic stent
graft procedures in the United
States after its approval.
Dr. Tuchek is also actively involved in developing percutaneous valve technologies with
Medtronic’s cardiovascular division as one of the primary
clinical consultants in percutaneous aortic
and mitral valve stent design. He recently patented a new percutaneous aortic valve stent for treating aortic
valve pathology. He is annually the principle investigator in the core
valve percutaneous aortic valve replacement
trial at Loyola
University for
treatment of aortic stenosis.
Dr. Tuchek has an active cardiothoracic and vascular
practice with emphasis on minimally invasive approaches for the heart,
lung, and vascular surgery. He
is currently one of the leading implanters in the world of the CardioMEMS pressure sensor for aneurysms/stent
grafts. He is also currently
involved using the Cardica anastomotic stapler to perform distal coronary
artery bypasses without using sutures during heart surgery. Dr. Tuchek
has pioneered endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy
in Chicago,
developing some of the most minimally invasive techniques for the
treatment of hyperhydrosis.
Dr. Tuchek lectures internationally on topics ranging
from ethics in medicine to minimally invasive heart surgery, percutaneous valve procedures, and aneurysm
treatments. He also devotes some
of his time teaching other physicians how to perform state-of-the-art
endovascular procedures around the United States. Dr. Tuchek
is a consultant with numerous medical device companies and recently
developed a stent graft design being tested in Europe
for aortic dissections.
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