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Richard C. Kovach, M.D.
63 Kresson Road, Suite #101
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
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  PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: 1955

EDUCATION
Graduate
1978-1982
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
Degree: M.D.
Graduate
1977
Johns Hopkins University of Hygiene and Public Health
Baltimore, MD
Health Services Administration
Undergraduate
1973-1977
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Degree: B.A. - Natural Sciences

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
6/1982-6/1983 Internship, Internal Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
7/1983-6/1985 Residency, Internal Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
7/1985-6/1987 Fellowship, Cardiology
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
7/1987-7/1988 Fellowship, Clinical Invasive Cardiology
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA

BOARD CERTIFICATION
  Internal Medicine
Cardiovascular Diseases
Interventional Cardiology

AWARDS AND HONORS
1975 Premedical Honorary Society, AED
9/2005 South Jersey Magazine Top Doc Award

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS
  Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center
Virtua-West Jersey Health System
Underwood Memorial Hospital
Tenet MCP/Hahnemann University
John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital
Cooper University Hospital

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
  American Medical Association
Member, American College of Physicians
Fellow, American College of Cardiology
Member, The Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
Member, New Jersey Medical Society
Member, New Jersey Interventional Cardiology Society
Member, Camden County Medical Society

RESEARCH
1972-1973 Barr Body Studies
Magee Woman's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
1975-1978 The Primary Care Education Project
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Robert Politzer, Ph.D., Preceptor
1987-1988 Beta blockade and infarct size reductions in a canine model, mechanisms of action
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
1993-1994 Working with a swine coronary artery injury/reinjury model and local and systemic delivery of various agents to reduce/prevent restenosis
Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Browns Mills, NJ
1996-1998 Pursuit Trial: Coinvestigator (Protocol 94-016)
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2000 CURE Trial: Coinvestigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
1996-1997 DART Trial: Principal Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2000 POSTIT Trial: Coinvestigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2000 TARGET Trial: Coinvestigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2001 Guard Trial: Principal Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2002 FIRE Trial: Principal Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2002 TAXUS IV SR Trial: Co-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2002 ISIS Trial: Principal Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2004 Blaze II: Principal Investigator
2004 FLAME: Principal Investigator
2004 Early ACS: Sub-Investigator
2003-2004 CLARITY: Sub-Investigator
2004 DEScover: Sub-Investigator
2004 SPIDER: Sub-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2004 TRITON: Principal Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2004 PROTECT: Principal Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2006 CAPTURE II: Sub-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2006 Xact Carotid Study: Sub-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2006 ZOMAXX II: Principal Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2006 AMEthyst Sub-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2006-2007 IMPROVE-IT: Sub-Investigator
Virtua Health System and Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center
2006 TC-Wyre: Sub-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2007 PROTECTed: Principal Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2007 SONOMA: Sub-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2007 ACT I: Sub-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2007 CHOICE: Sub-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2007 CABANA Carotid Study: Sub-Investigator
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ
2007 DETECT - Principal Investigator

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES/MEETINGS
1990-1996
1999-2001
Annual Scientific Sessions
American College of Cardiology
1992, 2000 Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention Annual Meeting
Monterey, CA
1992 Directional Atherectomy Training Course
Boston, MA
1993 Restenosis Summit
Cleveland, OH
1993 TEC Atherectomy Training Course
Los Angeles, CA
1994 Palmaz/Schatz Stent Training Course
Philadelphia, PA
1994 Gianturco/Rubin Stent Training Course
Houston, TX
1995 Sixth Annual PTCA/Peripheral Angioplasty Course
University of Alabama, Birmingham. AL
1995 New Devices for Intervention
Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
1995 Rotablator Training Workshop
Boston, MA
1997, 2000 Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention Annual Meeting
Scottsdale, AZ; Charleston, SC
1997 Transradial Coronary Intervention, Quebec Heart Institute
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
1998-2004 TCT Annual Session
Washington, DC
1998 1998 Regional Acute Coronary Syndrome Consultants Meeting
New York City, NY
1998 Peripheral Vascular Intervention Interactive Satellite Training
Cherry Hill, NJ

PUBLICATIONS

PEER REVIEWED

"Surface Electrocardiogram in the Detection of Transmural Myocardial Ischemia During Coronary Occlusion." Am. J. Cardiology 63:21-26, 1989

OTHER ARTICLES

"Interventional Treatment in Evolving Myocardial Infarction." Cardiology 76:158-165, 1989

"Randomized Comparison of Distal Protection With a Filter-Based Catheter and a Balloon Occlusion and Aspiration System during Percutaneous Intervention of Diseased Saphenous Vein Aorto-coronary Bypass Grafts" Circulation 2003; 108:548-553.

"Left Ventricular Repair: Case Presentation." Endovascular Today, October 2003.

ABSTRACT/POSTER PRESENTATION

Prolonged Local Infusion of Low Dose Angiopeptin Reduces Neointima After Balloon Injury in Swine Coronaries Using the Dipatch Site Specific Delivery Catheter." Santoian EC, Tarazona N, Taylor MA, Kovach RC, Malosky SA, Dennis CA. American College of Cardiology, March 1995. Abstract/Poster Presentation.

"Thirty Day and Six Month Results of a Multicenter Randomized Trial Comparing Distal Protection with a Filter-Based Catheter to Balloon Occlusion and Aspiration During Percutaneous Intervention of Saphenous Vein Bypass Grafts." The FIRE Trial. American College of Cardiology, March 2002.

"Impact of Transient Flow Reduction on the Efficacy of Embolic Protection Filters: Results from the FIRE Trial." American Heart Association, November 2002.

"Thirty Day and Six Month Outcomes after Saphenous Vein Graft Stenting with Distal Protection in Patients Excluded from Randomized Trials: The FilterWire EX High Risk Registry." Stone GW, Brodie BR, Caputo R, Feldman R, Rogers C, Cox DA, Roberts D, Masud AZ, Jermiller J, Cambier P, Kovach RC, Negoita M, Pop R, Fahy M, Sikand R, Mehran R. Presented at the American Heart Association, November 2003.

"Stenting in Saphenous Vein Grafts with Distal Protection Using an Improved Second Generation Filter Based Catheter (The BLAZE Registry)." Cox DA, Stone GW, Bonnier H, Grube E, Masud A, Myers R, Cambier P, Kovach RC, Brodie B, Marulkar S, Popma J, Hermiller J. For the Embolic Protection Transluminally with the FilterWire EZ Device in Saphenous Vein Grafts (BLAZE) Investigators. Presented at the American Heart Association, November 2004.

"A Randomized Trial To Evaluate the Relative PROTECTion Against Post-PCI Microvascular Dsyfunction, Ischemia and Inflammation Among Anti-Platelet and Anti-Thrombotic Agents: The PROTECT - TIMI 30 Trial." Gibson CM, Morrow DA, Murphy SA, Jennings LK, Stone, PH, Bulle T, Lakkis N, and Braunwald E for the TIMI Study Group.

"Association of Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation with Reductions in Biomarker Elevations Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention-A PROTECT TIMI 30 Substudy." Gibson CM, Karmpaliotis D, Kosmidou I, Ray KK, Murphy S, Kirtane A, Hermann H, Lakkis N, Kovach R, French W, Blankenship J, Lui HH, Palabrica T, Jennings L, Cohen D, Morrow D for the TIMI Study Group.

 

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