Alden Harken, MD
Professor Emeritus
Surgery
School of Medicine

Grants and Projects

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• Mechanisms of Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy, NIH, 1991-2026
• Overall Application: Trauma Primes Cells, NIH, 1900-2019
• Cytokine Enhancement of Postischemic Cardiac Function, NIH, 1990-1994

Publications (99)

Top publication keywords:
Terminology as TopicAtrial FibrillationAuthorshipNebivololMentorsInternship and ResidencyGeneral SurgeryCoronary Artery BypassSurgical Procedures, OperativeWritingLabetalolPeer Review, ResearchCardiac Surgical ProceduresPreoperative CareEducation, Medical, Graduate

• Commentary: Hybrid advice in the real world.
  JTCVS open 2021 Hsu D, Harken A
• Commentary: New sight, lost sight, insight, and novel sight.
  JTCVS open 2021 Harken AH
• Tips for authors of surgical manuscripts from senior reviewers.
  Surgery 2021 Malangoni MA, Evans DB, Prinz RA, Hodin RA, Rege R, Harken AH
• Managing microvesicles or Virchow's vicissitude.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2020 Moore H, Harken A
• Commentary: A phase in the haze surrounding the maze.
  JTCVS techniques 2020 Harken AH

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• Commentary: POAF goes POOF!
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2020 Harken AH
• Editors' introduction to: Toward a unified theory of occurrence and recurrence of hiatal hernia.
  Surgery 2020 Sarr MG, Behrns KE, Harken AH, Wexner SD
• Commentary on: Prevalence and extent of industry support for program directors of surgical fellowships in the United States.
  Surgery 2020 Harken AH
• Commentary: What would Sir Francis Bacon think of us now?
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2020 Harken AH
• Commentary: Only wimps need advice.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2020 Harken AH
• Commentary: Potential preventive peroxisomal policing of postoperative atrial fibrillation.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2020 Harken AH
• Commentary: Nobody roots for Goliath.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2019 Harken AH
• Jostling with jargon.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2019 Harken AH, Wood DA, Sellke FW, Weisel RD
• Commentary: The value of a surprise.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2019 Harken AH
• Commentary: Two strands are better than one.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2019 Harken AH, Anderson WF
• Commentary: Old enough to know better.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2019 Swanson J, Harken A
• Preoperative epigenetic preparation of patients is a current reality.
  Surgery 2019 Chaudhary M, Goel VK, Victorino GP, Harken AH
• I got rhythm.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2018 Harken AH
• The tranquil consciousness of effortless superiority.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2018 Harken AH
• So, you are looking for a job: Pearls for a successful first cardiothoracic job search.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2018 Macke RA, Ghanta R, Starnes S, Harken AH
• The case of a chase for the kinase.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2018 Harken AH
• Surgery makes patients happy.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2017 Harken AH
• Carpet-bombing the colon is bad.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2017 Harken AH
• The Tin Man finally gets his heart.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2017 Harken AH
• The promise of placental power.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2017 Harken AH
• It's not about eating.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2017 Harken AH
• Order out of chaos.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2017 Harken AH
• Cardiomyocyte psychology.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2016 Harken AH
• Macro or micro: The beat goes on.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2016 Harken AH
• Aortic dissection and DNA repair.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2015 Harken AH
• Socioeconomic status and the assessment of operative risk.
  Surgery 2015 Chong V, Imhoff L, Harken A
• To block or not to block? That is the question.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2015 Harken AH
• Cardiac cannibalism.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2014 Harken AH
• Heart and soul.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2014 Harken AH
• How much do we really know about statins and transplant vasculopathy?
  World journal of surgery 2014 Harken AH
• The ladies need more attention.
  Surgery 2014 Green A, Markham S, Williams J, Graf J, Morgan A, Brooke M, Harken AH
• Mentoring for global health missions.
  Surgery 2013 Upadhyaya P, Smith R, Swift UM, Warshaw AL, Harken AH
• Joseph Murray as mentor.
  The Journal of craniofacial surgery 2013 Harken AH
• Surgical trainees like to be trained.
  Surgery 2012 Palmer BJ, Parks NS, Harken AH
• Confronting the chronically anticoagulated, acute care surgery patient as we evolve into the post-warfarin era.
  Surgery 2012 Yeung L, Miraflor E, Harken A
• Tumor vs neoplasm: it is not just semantics.
  Surgery 2012 Zaydfudim V, Sarr MG, Harken AH, Warshaw AL
• The case against BRCA 1 and 2 testing.
  Surgery 2011 Lin C, Sasaki T, Strumwasser A, Harken A
• Pregnancy is protective.
  Surgery 2011 Harken T, Harken A
• Edgar J. Poth memorial lecture: the future of general surgery is controlled by surgical megafauna.
  American journal of surgery 2010 Harken AH
• Application of the chemokine CXCL12 expression plasmid restores wound healing to near normal in a diabetic mouse model.
  The Journal of trauma 2010 Restivo TE, Mace KA, Harken AH, Young DM
• Surgical megafauna.
  Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 2010 Harken TR, Russell KW, Harken A, Russell RT
• Women rule.
  Surgery 2010 Bullard MK, Bir N, Kwan R, Cureton E, Knudson P, Harken A
• Words, words, words.
  Surgery 2010 Wielgus J, Sarr MG, Warshaw AL, Harken AH
• Local secretion of urocortin 1 promotes microvascular permeability during lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation.
  Endocrinology 2009 Cureton EL, Ereso AQ, Victorino GP, Curran B, Poole DP, Liao M, Harken AH, Bhargava A
• Normalization of diabetic wound healing.
  Surgery 2009 Francis-Goforth KN, Harken AH, Saba JD
• ACS promotes the six competencies of the accreditation council for graduate medical education.
  Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 2009 Palmer BJ, Stams V, Russell TR, Harken AH, Britt LD
• Commentary: Kubler-Ross 5 stages in the recognition of poor surgical resident performance.
  Surgery 2009 Harken AH
• The number of gunshot wounds does not predict injury severity and mortality.
  The American surgeon 2009 Cripps MW, Ereso AQ, Sadjadi J, Harken AH, Victorino GP
• The necessity to assess anticoagulation status in elderly injured patients.
  The Journal of trauma 2008 Williams TM, Sadjadi J, Harken AH, Victorino GP
• Statins for surgical patients.
  Annals of surgery 2008 Williams TM, Harken AH
• Surgical education is safe.
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2008 Liu T, Harken AH
• Contemporary standards for the diagnosis and treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT).
  Surgery 2007 Baldwin ZK, Spitzer AL, Ng VL, Harken AH
• Transforming the surgical "time-out" into a comprehensive "preparatory pause".
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2007 Backster A, Teo A, Swift M, Polk HC, Harken AH
• Case-based multimedia program enhances the maturation of surgical residents regarding the concepts of professionalism.
  Journal of surgical education 2007 Kumar AS, Shibru D, Bullard MK, Liu T, Harken AH
• ICAM-1 expression determines malignant potential of cancer.
  Surgery 2007 Roland CL, Harken AH, Sarr MG, Barnett CC
• Expanded surgical time out: a key to real-time data collection and quality improvement.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2007 Altpeter T, Luckhardt K, Lewis JN, Harken AH, Polk HC
• Surgical research promotes world peace.
  Annals of surgery 2007 Harken AH
• Transvenous cardioverter-defibrillator placement via a persistent left superior vena cava.
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2007 Pavlic LK, Harken AH, Sethna D
• Genomics and the cardiac surgeon.
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2007 Bullard MK, Swift M, Harken A
• Mechanics of the normal heart.
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2006 Tendulkar AP, Harken AH
• Da Vinci's problem.
  Surgery 2006 Swift UM, Harken AH
• Blood doping in the surgical intensive care unit.
  Surgery 2006 Wan JJ, Mortensen E, Knudson MM, Harken AH
• Brain death leads to abnormal contractile properties of the human donor right ventricle.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2006 Harken AH
• Mississippi medical liability reform experience.
  Surgery 2006 McGee GE, Warshaw AL, Harken AH
• Osler's advice to "shun politics" is outdated.
  Surgery 2006 Swift MB, Altman D, Allison G, Iton A, Kears D, Rose T, Harken AH
• Admission serum lactate levels do not predict mortality in the acutely injured patient.
  The Journal of trauma 2006 Pal JD, Victorino GP, Twomey P, Liu TH, Bullard MK, Harken AH
• The two-event construct of postinjury multiple organ failure.
  Shock (Augusta, Ga.) 2005 Moore EE, Moore FA, Harken AH, Johnson JL, Ciesla D, Banerjee A
• Dendritic cells as therapeutic adjuncts in surgical disease.
  Surgery 2005 Clarke JH, Cha JY, Walsh MD, Harken AH, McCarter MD
• Quantification of surgical resident stress "on call".
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2005 Tendulkar AP, Victorino GP, Chong TJ, Bullard MK, Liu TH, Harken AH
• Hyperbolic hypotheses.
  Surgery 2005 Harken AH
• Melanoma inhibits macrophage activation by suppressing toll-like receptor 4 signaling.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2005 Clarke JH, Cha JY, Walsh MD, Gamboni-Robertson F, Banerjee A, Reznikov LL, Dinarello CA, Harken AH, McCarter MD
• Surgical application of cDNA microarray technique.
  Surgery 2005 Sahar DE, Yang GP, Longaker MT, Harken AH
• Invited commentary: Looking beyond bare survival.
  Surgery 2005 Ganim RB, Harken AH
• Postinjury serum secretory phospholipase A2 correlates with hypoxemia and clinical status at 72 hours.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2005 Neidlinger NA, Hirvela ER, Skinner RA, Larkin SK, Harken AH, Kuypers FA
• One year, and counting, after publication of our ACS "Code of Professional Conduct".
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2004 Barry L, Blair PG, Cosgrove EM, Cruess RL, Cruess SR, Eastman AB, Fabri PJ, Kirksey TD, Liscum KR, Morrison R, Sachdeva AK, Svahn DS, Russell TR, Dickey J, Ungerleider RM, Harken AH, American College …
• Skateboards promote world peace.
  Surgery 2004 Harken AH
• Hemorrhage-induced acute lung injury is TLR-4 dependent.
  American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2004 Barsness KA, Arcaroli J, Harken AH, Abraham E, Banerjee A, Reznikov L, McIntyre RC
• Lymphangiogenesis is pivotal to the trials of a successful cancer metastasis.
  Surgery 2004 McCarter MD, Clarke JH, Harken AH
• Professionalism in surgery.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2003 Gruen RL, Arya J, Cosgrove EM, Cruess RL, Cruess SR, Eastman AB, Fabri PJ, Friedman P, Kirksey TD, Kodner IJ, Lewis FR, Liscum KR, Organ CH, Rosenfeld JC, Russell TR, Sachdeva AK, Zook EG, Harken AH, …
• RNA silencing in surgical disease.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2003 Arya J, Cha JY, Banerjee A, Harken AH
• "Resistance" to the inflammatory response and multiple organ failure in children.
  The Journal of trauma 2003 Lyons WS, Calkins CM, Moore EE, Bensard DD, Partrick DA, McIntyre RC, Harken AH
• Diagnostic implications of C-reactive protein.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2003 Zimmerman MA, Selzman CH, Cothren C, Sorensen AC, Raeburn CD, Harken AH
• The injured child is resistant to multiple organ failure: a different inflammatory response?
  The Journal of trauma 2002 Calkins CM, Bensard DD, Moore EE, McIntyre RC, Silliman CC, Biffl W, Harken AH, Partrick DA, Offner PJ
• Invited commentary: how do we recruit bright and selflessly capable students into the gratifying profession of surgery?
  Surgery 2002 Harken AH
• Ischemic preconditioning: fact or fantasy?
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2002 Raeburn CD, Zimmerman MA, Arya J, Barsness K, Harken AH
• ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 mediate endotoxemic myocardial dysfunction independent of neutrophil accumulation.
  American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2002 Raeburn CD, Calkins CM, Zimmerman MA, Song Y, Ao L, Banerjee A, Harken AH, Meng X
• Lack of TNF-alpha attenuates intimal hyperplasia after mouse carotid artery injury.
  American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2002 Zimmerman MA, Selzman CH, Reznikov LL, Miller SA, Raeburn CD, Emmick J, Meng X, Harken AH
• Monocyte chemotactic protein-1 directly induces human vascular smooth muscle proliferation.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2002 Selzman CH, Miller SA, Zimmerman MA, Gamboni-Robertson F, Harken AH, Banerjee A
• Pooled human albumin primes neutrophils.
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2002 Rabaglia JL, Gonzalez R, Moore EE, Harken AH
• The interaction between Hsp70 and TNF-alpha expression: a novel mechanism for protection of the myocardium against post-injury depression.
  Shock (Augusta, Ga.) 2002 Meng X, Harken AH
• Toll-like receptors and surgical disease.
  Surgery 2002 Raeburn CD, Calkins CM, Zimmerman MA, Arya J, Barsness KA, Harken AH
• Cytokines for surgeons.
  American journal of surgery 2002 Raeburn CD, Sheppard F, Barsness KA, Arya J, Harken AH
• Inhibition of intimal hyperplasia using the selective estrogen receptor modulator raloxifene.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2002 Selzman CH, Turner AS, Gaynor JS, Miller SA, Monnet E, Harken AH
• TNF-alpha-dependent bilateral renal injury is induced by unilateral renal ischemia-reperfusion.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2002 Meldrum KK, Meldrum DR, Meng X, Ao L, Harken AH