MyungHeeParkMD

Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Failure & Transplantation, Interventional Cardiology

Division Chief, Heart Failure

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Office
1802 Yakima Ave
Ste 302
Tacoma, WA 98405
Phone+1 253-627-1244

Fax+1 253-274-7993

Virginia Commonwealth University Health SystemFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1994 - 1997
Temple University HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1991 - 1994
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple UniversityClass of 1991

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013
Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology

PubMed

16 citations
Bi-allelic variants in DOHH, catalyzing the last step of hypusine biosynthesis, are associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder.
Alban Ziegler, Katharina Steindl, Ashleigh S Hanner, Rajesh Kumar Kar, Clément Prouteau
American Journal of Human Genetics. 2022-08-04
18 citations
Neuron-specific ablation of eIF5A or deoxyhypusine synthase leads to impairments in growth, viability, neurodevelopment, and cognitive functions in mice.
Rajesh Kumar Kar, Ashleigh S. Hanner, Matthew F. Starost, Danielle A. Springer, Teresa L. Mastracci
The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2021-10-22
22 citations
Post-translational formation of hypusine in eIF5A: implications in human neurodevelopment.
Myung Hee Park, Rajesh Kumar Kar, Siddharth Banka, Alban Ziegler, Wendy K. Chung
Amino Acids. 2021-07-17

Journal Articles

Invasive Hemodynamic After LVAD Implantation and Association with Outcomes
Arvind Bhimaraj, Jerry Estep, Barry Trachtenberg, Myung H Park, Imad Hussain, Journal of Cardiac Failure

Invasive Hemodynamic After LVAD Implantation and Association with OutcomesSeptember 2018

The Post-Translational Synthesis Of Hypusine In Eif5aNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research2009–2011
The Post-Translational Synthesis Of Hypusine In Eif5aNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research2002–2008
Oral Carcinogenesis: Studies With Human Gingival KeratinNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research2004
Oral Carcinogenesis: Human Gingival KeratinocytesNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research2003
Oral Carcinogenesis: Studies With Human Gingival KerocytNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research2002
Post Translational Synthesis Of Hypusine In Eif5aNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research2001
Oral Carcinogenesis--Human Gingival KerocytesNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research2001
Oral Carcinogenesis: Human Gingival KeratinoocytesNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research2000
The Post-Translational Synthesis Of Hypusine In Eif5a: Deoxyhypusine SynthaseNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research1998–2000
Oral Carcinogenesis Studies With Human Gingivial KerocytesNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research1999
Posttranslational Synthesis Of Hypusine In Eif-5a--Deoxyhypusine SynythaseNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research1997
Deoxyhypusine Synthase--Purification, Characterization, And CDNA CloningNational Institute Of Dental &Craniofacial Research1994–1996