Alden Hood Harken MD

Dr. Alden Hood Harken, MD, is a Professor and Chief of the UCSF-East Bay Department of Surgery. Dr. Harken also serves as the Chief of Surgery at the Alameda County Medical Center.

Dr. Harken is Board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. In 2005 and 2006, surgical residents voted Dr. Harken the Julia Burke Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

Recently, Dr. Harkin was honored with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of University Surgeons (SUS) (see full news story below). After completing his undergraduate work at Harvard College in 1963, Dr. Harken graduated from Case Western Reserve Medical School in 1967.

He completed surgical and pediatric cardiovascular residencies at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Boston Children's Medical Hospital in 1973; then joined the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C., where he was an investigator gaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

His research interests are Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiac Arrhythmias, Cardiac Surgery, Myocardial Infarction, Thoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Electrophysiology, and Ischemia.