Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Associate Chief, Cardiovascular Division of the Presbyterian Medical Center
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

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Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Philadelphia Heart Institute - 4th Floor
39th & Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Appointments
Contact: Trudy Flanagan (215) 662-9189

Clinical Specialty:

• Cardiovascular Medicine

Practice Location:

• Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, PHI

Education:

• MD: Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
• Residency: Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
• Fellowship: Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
• Postdoctoral Fellowship: Columbia University, New York

Research Interest:

• Interventional Cardiology

Selected Publications:

1. Iskandrian AS, Heo J, Lemlek J, Ogilby JF, Untereker WJ, Iskandrian B, Cave V. Identification of High-Risk Patients with Left Main and Three-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease by Adenosine-Single Photon Emission Computed Tomographic Thallium Imaging. American Heart Journal 125:1130-1135, 1993.
2. Ogilby JD, Untereker WJ. Antithrombotic Management of Patients with Unstable Angina in the Catheterization Laboratory. Cardio Intervention 3(2):19-22, 1993.
3. Eigler, NL, Weinstock B, Douglas JS, Goldenberg T, Hartzler G, Holmes D, Leon M, Margolis J, Nobuyoshi M, O'Neill W, Rothbaum D, Roubin G, Untereker W, Cowley M, Forrester J, Litvack F. Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty of Aorto-Ostial Stenoses. Results of the Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty (ELCA) Registry in the First 200 Patients. Circulation 88:2049-2057, 1993.
4. Untereker, WJ, Lin, Bradford J, Ogilby, JD. Current Status of new and old devices in interventional cardiology. Philadelphia Medicine Vol 90(1):12-15, 1994.
5. Litvack, F, Eigler, N, Margolis, J, Rothbaum, D, Bresnahan, J, Holmes, D, Untereker, WJ, Leon, M, Kent, K, Pichard, A, King, S. Ghazzal, Z, Cummins, F, Krauthamer, D, Roubin, G, Klein, LW, Frankel, PS, Adams, C, Goldenberg, T, Laudenslager, J, Grundfest, WS, Forrester, J, for the ELCA Investigators. Percutaneous Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty: Results in the First Consecutive 3,000 Patients. JACC Vol 23, No. 2, February 1994:323-9.
6. Ambrose, JA, Almeida, OD, Sharma, SK, Torre, SR, Marmur, JD, Israel, DH, Ratner, DE, Weiss, MB, Hjemdahl-Monsen, CE, Myler, RK, Moses, J, Untereker, WJ, Grunwald, AM, Garrett, JS, Cowley, MJ, Anwar, A, Sobolski, J, for the TAUSA Investigators. Adjunctive Thrombolytic Therapy During Angioplasty for Ischemic Rest Angina. Results of the TAUSA Trial. Circulation Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 69-77, July 1994.
7. Mark, DB, Talley, JD, Topol, EJ, Bowman, L, Lam, LC, Cleman, MW, Lee, KL, Aversano, T, Untereker, WJ, Davidson-Ray, L, Califf, RM, for the Epic Investigators. Economic Assessment of Platelet Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibition for Prevention of Ischemic Complications of High Risk Coronary Angioplasty. In press, Circulation.
8. Groh, WC, Kurnik, PB, Matthai, WH and Untereker, WJ. Initial Experience With an Intracoronary Flow Support Device Providing Localized Drug Infusion: The Scimed Dispatch Catheter. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis 36:67-73 (1995).
9. Matthai WH, Kurnik PB, Hanlon SJ, Groh WC, Jauch W, Untereker WJ, Siegel JE. Restenosis is not associated with Antithrombin III at the time of PTCA. Circulation 94:I-620,1996.
10. Matthai WH, Kurnik PB, Groh WC, Untereker WJ, Siegel JE. Antithrombin Activity During the Period of Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization: Relation to Heparin Use, Thrombotic Complications and Restenosis. JACC Vol 33, No. 5, 1999.