Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Chair, Department of Medicine
  • Frank Wister Thomas Professor of Medicine

Education and training

  • Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Michigan Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Northwestern Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Fellowship: University of Michigan Medical Center

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Parmacek is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Huang J, Elicker J, Bowens N, Liu X, Cheng L, Cappola TP, Zhu X, Parmacek MS Myocardin regulates BMP10 expression and is required for heart development , The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 122(10): 2012,3678-91


Li J, Bowens N, Cheng L, Zhu X, Chen M, Hannenhalli S, Cappola TP, Parmacek MS Myocardin-like protein 2 regulates TGFβ signaling in embryonic stem cells and the developing vasculature , Development (Cambridge, England), 139(19): 2012,3531-42


Rong L, Liu J, Qi Y, Graham AM, Parmacek MS, Li S GATA-6 promotes cell survival by up-regulating BMP-2 expression during embryonic stem cell differentiation , Molecular Biology of the Cell, 23(18): 2012,3754-63


Rader DJ, Parmacek MS Secreted miRNAs suppress atherogenesis , Nature Cell Biology, 14(3): 2012,233-5


Shen D, Li J, Lepore JJ, Anderson TJ, Sinha S, Lin AY, Cheng L, Cohen ED, Roberts JD Jr, Dedhar S, Parmacek MS, Gerszten RE Aortic aneurysm generation in mice with targeted deletion of integrin-linked kinase in vascular smooth muscle cells , Circulation Research, 109(6): 2011,616-28


Huang J, Lu MM, Cheng L, Li J, Zhu X, Stout A, Chen M, Li J, Parmacek MS Myocardin is required for cardiomyocyte survival and maintenance of heart function , Proc Natl Acad Sci USA: 2009,18734-18739


Parmacek MS, Epstein JA Cardiomyocyte Renewal , N Engl J Med, 2(361): 2009,86-8


Zhang Z, Goss AM, Cohen ED, Kadzik R, Lepore JJ, Muthukumaraswamy K, Yang J, DeMayo F, Whitsett JA, Parmacek MS, Morrisey EE A Gata6-Wnt pathway required for epithelial stem cell development and airway regeneration , Nature Genetics, 40(7): 2008,862-70


Huang J, Cheng L, Li J, Chen M, Zhou D, Lu MM, Proweller A, Epstein JA, Parmacek MS Myocardin regulates smooth muscle cell contractile genes required for closure of the ductus arteriosus , J Clin Invest, 118(2): 2008,515-25


Proweller A, Wright AC, Horng D, Cheng L, Lu MM, Lepore JJ, Pear WS, Parmacek MS Notch signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells is required to pattern the cerebral vasculature , Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 104(41): 2007,16275-80


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