Professor and Chair, Dept Surgery UCSF-East Bay
General Surgery
Dr. Alden H. Harken, MD
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Alden Harken is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He received 2 awards: "America's Top Doctors" and "Super Doctor". Alden H. Harken, MD is a published physician. He has 70 papers published. The most current publication "Aortic dissection and DNA repair." He is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Aortic Dissection and DNA repair.
- Socioeconomic status and the assessment of operative risk.
- The ladies need more attention.
- How Much Do We Really Know About Statins and Transplant Vasculopathy?
- Joseph murray as mentor.
- Surgical trainees like to be trained.
- Confronting the chronically anticoagulated, Acute care surgery patient as we evolve into the post-warfarin era.
- Edgar J. Poth memorial lecture: the future of general surgery is controlled by surgical megafauna.
- Application of the chemokine CXCL12 expression plasmid restores wound healing to near normal in a diabetic mouse model.
- Normalization of diabetic wound healing.
- Words, words, words.
- Local secretion of urocortin 1 promotes microvascular permeability during lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation.
- ACS promotes the six competencies of the accreditation council for graduate medical education.
- Commentary: Kubler-Ross 5 stages in the recognition of poor surgical resident performance.
- The number of gunshot wounds does not predict injury severity and mortality.
- The necessity to assess anticoagulation status in elderly injured patients.
- Contemporary standards for the diagnosis and treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT).
- Statins for surgical patients.
- Surgical education is safe.
- The world of inhibitory kappaB.
- Transforming the surgical "time-out" into a comprehensive "preparatory pause".
- Case-based multimedia program enhances the maturation of surgical residents regarding the concepts of professionalism.
- ICAM-1 expression determines malignant potential of Cancer.
- Expanded surgical time out: a key to real-time data collection and quality improvement.
- Surgical research promotes world peace.
- Transvenous cardioverter-defibrillator placement via a persistent left superior vena cava.
- Mechanics of the normal Heart.
- Da Vinci's problem.
- Brain death leads to abnormal contractile properties of the human donor right ventricle.
- Blood doping in the surgical intensive care unit.
- Mississippi medical liability reform experience.
- Osler's advice to "shun politics" is outdated.
- Admission serum lactate levels do not predict mortality in the Acutely injured patient.
- The two-event construct of postinjury multiple organ Failure.
- Dendritic cells as therapeutic adjuncts in surgical Disease.
- Quantification of surgical resident stress "on call".
- Melanoma inhibits macrophage activation by suppressing toll-like receptor 4 signaling.
- Surgical application of cDNA microarray technique.
- Hyperbolic hypotheses.
- Signaling for Myocardial depression in hemorrhagic shock: roles of Toll-like receptor 4 and p55 TNF-alpha receptor.
- Postinjury serum secretory phospholipase A2 correlates with hypoxemia and clinical status at 72 hours.
- Invited commentary: Looking beyond bare survival.
- Hemorrhage-induced Acute lung injury is TLR-4 dependent.
- Skateboards promote world peace.
- Lymphangiogenesis is pivotal to the trials of a successful Cancer metastasis.
- RNA silencing in surgical Disease.
- "Resistance" to the inflammatory response and multiple organ Failure in children.
- On-pump coronary artery bypass surgery activates human myocardial NF-kappaB and increases TNF-alpha in the Heart.
- Diagnostic implications of C-reactive protein.
- The injured child is resistant to multiple organ Failure: a different inflammatory response?
- Evidence-based science: a worthwhile mode of surgical inquiry.
- Stem cells and Myocardial repair.
- "Primed" human neutrophils on a standard peripheral blood smear.
- Invited commentary: how do we recruit bright and selflessly capable students into the gratifying profession of surgery?
- Ischemic preconditioning: fact or fantasy?
- Monocyte chemotactic protein-1 directly induces human vascular smooth muscle proliferation.
- ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 mediate endotoxemic Myocardial dysfunction independent of neutrophil accumulation.
- Lack of TNF-alpha attenuates intimal hyperplasia after mouse Carotid artery injury.
- Neutralization of IL-18 attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced Myocardial dysfunction.
- Interleukin-11 attenuates human vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation.
- The interaction between Hsp70 and TNF-alpha expression: a novel mechanism for protection of the myocardium against post-injury depression.
- Toll-like receptors and surgical Disease.
- Pooled human albumin primes neutrophils.
- Inhibition of intimal hyperplasia using the selective estrogen receptor modulator raloxifene.
- Cytokines for surgeons.
- TNF-alpha-dependent bilateral renal injury is induced by unilateral renal ischemia-reperfusion.
- Ischemia alone is sufficient to induce TNF-alpha mRNA and peptide in the myocardium.
- Urachal carcinoma: key points for the general surgeon.
- Rheumatoid involvement of the Aortic arch.
Schools
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Boston Chldns Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Pacemaker Insertion, Removal or Repair
- Carotid Endarterectomy (CEA) or Excision of Infected Graft
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Conditions Treated
- Aneurysm and Dissection of Heart
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Embolism and Thrombosis
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiac Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Super Doctor
Education
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Hospital
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UCSF Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1225148398 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | HARKEN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ALDEN | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 946021018 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | Thoracic Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 14.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 11.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 78.57 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1225148398 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | HARKEN |
| First Name Of The Provider | ALDEN |
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