Medical Director, Pacemaker and Defibrillator Evaluation
Center and Director of Surgical Research
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Barnabas Health
Lyons Avenue, Newark, NJ 07112
Victor Parsonnet, MD, Medical Director of the Pacemaker and
Defibrillator Evaluation Center and Director of Surgical
Research at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, is an accomplished
surgeon and researcher who has demonstrated a lifetime
of commitment to cardiovascular surgery and medicine. Dr.
Parsonnet gained international recognition for his work
with pacemakers and pioneered many cardiovascular procedures
in New Jersey, such as the first aortocoronary-bypass procedures
and the first kidney and heart transplantations. Among
his scientific contributions to cardiac pacing in particular,
he is known for implanting the first permanent pacemakers
in New Jersey, the first permanent transvenous pacemakers
(world wide), and the first nuclear pacemaker of a U.S.
manufacturer. He is the co-author of the widely used pacemaker
code for identification of pacemaker modes, and participated
in the development of the first multi-programmable pacemakers.
Dr. Parsonnet is a co-founder of the North American Society
of Pacing and Electrophysiology and has published more than
600 articles in medical literature. He is past-president
of the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, and the New Jersey
Chapters of the American College of Cardiology, and the American
College of Surgery.
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