Department of Pathology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
A teaching Affliate of Harvard Medical School
 

Name and Present Position:

FREDERICK J. SCHOEN, Executive Vice-Chairman; Chief, Cardiac Pathology

Address:

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA

Medical School:

1974 MD, University of Miami Medical School, Miami, FL

  Graduate Medical Education:

1970 PhD, (Materials Science) Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1974-75 Intern in Surgery, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
1977-79 Resident in Anatomic Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1979-80 Fellow in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Pathology, University of Florida

Certification:

1980 American Board of Pathology (Anatomic Pathology)

Current Academic Appointment:

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA

Current Medical Staff Appointments:

Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Pathology
Chief, Cardiac Pathology
Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Selected Bibliography:

  • Silver MD, Gotlieb AI, Schoen FJ, eds: Cardiovascular Pathology, 3rd Ed., New York: Churchill Livingstone 2001, 808 pp.Wu X, Rabkin E, Guleserian KJ, Perry TE, Masuda Y, Sutherland FWH, Schoen FJ, Mayer JE, Bischoff J: Tissue-engineered microvessels on three-dimensional biodegradable scaffolds using human endothelial progenitor cells. A J Physiol - Heart Circ Physiol, 2004; 287:H480-H487.
  • Rabkin-Aikawa E, Farber M, Aikawa M, Schoen FJ: Dynamic and reversible changes of interstitial cell phenotype during development and remodeling of cardiac valves. J Heart Valve Dis, 2004; 13:841-847.
  • Rabkin-Aikawa E, Aikawa M, Farber, M, Kratz, JR, Garcia-Cardena G, Kouchoukos NT, Mitchell MB. Jonas RA, Schoen FJ: Clinical pulmonary autograft valves: Pathological evidence of adaptive remodeling in the aortic site. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2004; 128:552-561.
  • Radisic M, Park H, Shing H, Consi T, Schoen FJ, Langer R, Freed LE, Vunjak Novakovic G. Functional assembly of engineered myocardium by electrical stimulation of cardiac myocytes cultured on scaffolds. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004; 101:18129-18134.
  • Merryman WD, Huang H-Y, Schoen FJ, Sacks MS: The effects of cellular contraction on aortic valve leaflet flexural stiffness. J Biomech 2005, in press.
  • Ratner BD, Hoffman AS, Schoen FJ, Lemons JE, eds.: Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine, 2nd Ed., Orlando: Academic Press, 2004, 849 pp.
  • Schoen FJ, Levy RJ. Calcification of tissue heart valve substitutes: progress toward understanding and prevention. Ann Thorac Surg 2005; 79:1072-1080.
  • Rabkin-Aikawa E, Mayer JE Jr., Schoen FJ: Heart valve regeneration, In: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, Volume 94, Regenerative Medicine II: Clinical and Preclinical Applications, IV Yannas (Ed.), Springer 2005, p. 141
  • Sutherland FWH, Perry TE, Yu Y, Sherwood MC, Rabkin E, Masuda Y, Garcia GA, McLellan DL, Engelmayr GC, Sacks MS, Schoen FJ, Mayer JE. From stem cells to viable autologous semilunar heart valve. Circulation, 2005; 111:2783-2791