Barry L. Zaret, M.D. Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine Professor of Diagnostic Radiology

B.A., Queens College, 1962; M.D. New York University School of Medicine, 1966; Residency in Internal Medicine, Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York 1966-1969; Cardiology Fellowship, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1969-1971; joined Yale Faculty, 1973; Chief, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, 1978-2004.

Studies in Nuclear Cardiology

I have been involved in the development and promulgation of the field of nuclear cardiology since its inception. My initial work involved development of the major techniques currently utilized in a clinical sense: exercise myocardial perfusion imaging and equilibrium radionuclide angiography. Over the past two and a half decades, efforts have been made to develop additional techniques to study tracers in animal models, as well as to use currently developed methodology to address relevant pathophysiologic questions with respect to coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and cor pulmonale.



My newest interest involves the broad area of "molecular imaging". This represents a union of nuclear imaging with the basic principles of molecular and cellular biology to fashion new means of evaluating basic disease processes and mechanisms of disease.



Current work involves the domains of vascular imaging, myocyte integrity and imaging of gene products.



Books

Wackers FJ.Th., Bruni W, Zaret BL. Nuclear Cardiology: The Basics. How To Set Up and Maintain a Laboratory. 2nd Edition. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2008.  



Zaret BL, Beller GA eds. Clinical Nuclear Cardiology: State-Of-The-Art and Future Directions, 4th  Edition. Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, in preparation. 



Zaret BL, Subak-Sharpe G. Heart Care For Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2006.

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