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CURRICULUM VITAE JON BARRY TUCKER, M.D. Office Address Tucker Independent Medical Experts
1082 Bower Hill Road, Suite 100 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15243
TIN #: 27-1701683 Office Phone (412) 276-6241 After Hours (412) 276-0267 Email [email protected] Website www.tuckerime.com CURRENT POSITION: President and Medical Director, Tucker Independent
Medical Experts Director of Orthopedics, Tucker Orthopedic Division, St.
Clair Medical Services EDUCATION:
1980 A.B., Duke University
1984 M.D., University of Pennsylvania MEDICAL TRAINING:
1984-1985 Intern in General Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1985-1989 Residency in Orthopedic Surgery, Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1989-1990 Sports Medicine Fellowship, Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURES:
American Board of Orthopedic Surgery Board Certified, July 10, 1992 Expiration: December 31, 2022
Pennsylvania State License MD034772E
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Certified Impairment Rating Examiner Pennsylvania Bureau of Worker’s Compensation
HONORS AND AWARDS:
1980 Duke University, Magna cum Laude, Class Honors, Dean's List
1983 University of Pennsylvania, Mary Ellis Bell Prize for
outstanding medical research
1993 Appointed Team Physician, United States Maccabiah Delegation, 14th World Games, Israel
1996-1998 Outstanding Academic Service, University of Pittsburgh Primary Care Residency Training Program
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: President, Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society, 2007-2008 First Vice President, Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society, 2006-2007 Second Vice-President, Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society, 2005-2006 Immediate Past President, Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society 2008-2009 Member-at-Large 2009-2010
Board of Directors, Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society. Board Activities: 1) Chairman, Workers’ Compensation Committee, 1994-2007
2) Alternate Representative to the Pennsylvania Medical Society, 1998-99 3) Legislative Action Committee
Member, Highmark Imaging Advisory Committee, 2004-present Member, Credentialing Committee, HighMark Blue Cross Blue Shield/Keystone Health Plan West, 1997-2010 Committee on Occupational Health and Worker’s Compensation,
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons 1999-2006
Fellow, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
Member, Insurance/Provider Fee Advisory Committee, Commonwealth of PA, Bureau of Workers' Compensation 1999-2007
Member, IME Task Force, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, 1998 American Medical Association, Reviewer, AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment,
6th edition, 2007.
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Medical Director, Tucker Independent Medical Experts, Inc., 2010 - current
CURRENT HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS:
1991 Active Staff, St. Clair Memorial Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1998 Active Staff, UPMC Presbyterian-Shadyside Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
FORMER HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS: 1992-1999 Associate Attending, Allegheny General
Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1993-1997 Active Staff, Mercy Providence Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1993-1999 Active Status, Ohio Valley General
Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1995-1997 Junior Active Staff, North Hills Passavant Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1997-1999 Active Staff, St. Francis Central
Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1999-2003 Active Staff, Brownsville General Hospital Brownsville, Pennsylvania
1999-2007 Jefferson Memorial Hospital Clairton, Pennsylvania 1999-2007 Monongahela Valley Hospital Monongahela, Pennsylvania 2003-2007 Uniontown Hospital
Uniontown, Pennsylvania ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
1990 – 1994 Instructor in Surgery (Orthopedics and Rehabilitation), The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1994 – 1996 Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery,
Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1995-2006 Preceptor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,
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Primary Care Residency Training Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1996-2006 Clinical Instructor, Department of Orthopedic
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania COURSE CHAIRMANSHIPS
1. Course Chair, Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society, Workers’ Compensation Impairment Evaluation. Philadelphia, PA, May 15, 1998.
2. Course Chairman, Sports Medicine Update for Coaches, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh,
PA, April 2, 1991.
3. Course Chairman, Sports Medicine Update for Coaches, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1, 1992.
4. Course Chairman, Sports Medicine Update for Coaches, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh,
PA, May 6, 1993. PRESENTATIONS:
1. Ramasastry SS, Tucker JB, Swarta WM, Hurwitz DJ: The Internal Oblique Muscle Flap, Presented to the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, 62nd Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 1993.
2. Tucker JB, Brighton CT, Pollack SR, Black J: The Role of Current Constancy in the
Capacitive Stimulation of Fracture Healing. Presented to the 6th Annual meeting of the Bioelectrical Repair and Growth Society. Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 1986.
3. Tucker JB, Brighton CT, Pollac SR, Black J: The Role of Current Constancy in the
Capacitive Stimulation of Fracture Healing. Presented to the 33rd Annual meeting of the Orthopedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, January 1987.
4. Instructor, Perecutaneous Lumbar Disectomy Course, Parviz Kambin, M.D., Director,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1989.
5. Panelist, Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society, Fall 1991 meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
6. Moderator, Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society, Spring 1994 meeting, Boca Raton, Florida.
7. Moderator, Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society, Fall 1994 meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
8. Tucker, Jon B., "Optimizing the Orthopedic Expert's Medical Evaluation". Presented at Recent Developments in Employer Liability, 1996 Seminar, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1996.
9. Tucker, Jon B., "The Impairment Evaluation as it applies to Pennsylvania's Workers'
Compensation Act." Recent Developments in Employer Liability, 1997 Seminar, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1997.
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10. Tucker, Jon B., “Preparing Effective and Useful IME’s”, CMA Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA, October 21, 2004
11. The Physician-Patient Relationship in Worker’s Compensation: A Systematic Perspective.
St. Clair Hospital, May 10, 2006.
12. Acute Pain Management. PA Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Annual Meeting, Hershey,
PA, May 5, 2008
13. Moderator, “Sports Medicine Update.” Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society Spring Meeting, Key Largo, FL, May 8-10, 2008.
14. Pain: Symptoms, Signs, or Smoke: Judges’ Conference 2010, Workers’ Compensation
Office of Adjudication, State College, PA, July 2010.
15. The Utility of Advanced Diagnostic Testing in Determining Occupational Causation for Common Shoulder, Hip, and Knee Disorders: Judges’ Conference 2012, Workers’ Compensation Office of Adjudication, Harrisburg, PA, June 2012.
16. Upper Extremities. PA Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Annual Meeting, Hershey, PA,
June 11, 2013
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Dujovny M, Ressler EO, Lossovsky N, Tucker JB, Wackenhut N, Leff L: Vascular Clip Closure Force Meter. Surg. Neurol. 14: 107, 1980.
2. Ramstry SS, Tucker JB, Swartz WM, Hurwitz DJ: The Internal Oblique Muscle Flap: An
Anatomic and Clinical Study, Plast. Reconst. Surg., 73: 721 - 731, 1984.
3. Second Opinion Provisions of the PA Workers’ Compensation Act - The Medical Perspective. Counterpoint, October 1997.
4. Tucker, Jon B., Act 57: Second Opinion Implications, Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society
Newsletter, Fall 1997. BOOK CHAPTERS:
1. Tucker JB, Corsetti J, Gregg JR: Arthroscopically Assisted Proximal Quadricepsplasty for Patellar Instability. In Clinics in Sports Medicine 12: 81 - 89, 1993.
2. Tucker, Jon B., The Independent Medical Examination. In Orthopaedic Surgery: The
essentials, M. Baratz, ed., Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, NY. 1999. EXHIBITS:
1. Arthroscopically Assisted Proximal Quadricepsplasty for Patellar Instability. Scientific Exhibit, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons 60th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 1993.
2. Common Musculoskeletal Disorders and OSHA’s Ergonomics Guidelines, Scientific Exhibit
Occupational Health and Worker’s Compensation, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
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71st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 2004 PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS:
1. Tucker JB, Brighton CT, Pollock SR, Black J: The Role of Current Constancy in the Capacitive Stimulation of Fracture Healing. Trdans. Orthop. Res. Soc. 12:232, 1987.
2. Arthroscopically Assisted Promimal Quadricepsplasty for Patellar Instability. Orthop. Trans. 1993.
REGIONAL AND NATIONAL LECTURES:
1. Annual USAA Medical Management Seminar, San Antonio, Texas, October 24, 1990.
2. Lawrence County Medical Society, New Castle, Pennsylvania,
November 6, 1990.
3. Speaker, GMIS Annual User Conference '95', St. Petersburg, Florida, May 16, 1995.
4. Impairment Rating Examination Under Act 57, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, New
Act 57 Procedures, Pittsburgh, PA, March 4, 1998
5. Physician’s Role in the Workers Compensation System, PA Orthopedic Society, Workers Compensation, Impairment Evaluation, Training Course Philadelphia, PA, May 15, 1998
6. Future Directions of the IME – Physician as a Consultant.
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Annual Workers’ Compensation Update. Seattle, WA, November 7, 1998.
7. Electrothermal – Assisted Capusular Shift- Comparison of Techniques.
Arthroplasty and Arthroscopy of the Shoulder and Elbow. Miami, Florida, May 14-15, 1999.
8. Management Techniques in Workplace Shoulder Injuries. Miami, Florida,
May 14-15, 1999.
9. The Physician-Patient Relationship in Worker’s Compensation: A Systematic Perspective. American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2, 2001.
10. Orthopedics for Lawyers: Shoulder and Knee. Pennsylvania Bar Institute, January 9th and 30th, 2002.
11. Shoulder Disorders in the Workplace: Ergonomic Considerations presented to OSHA
Medical Directors, Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003
12. Common Musculoskeletal Disorders and OSHA’s Ergonomics Guidelines. AAOS Occupational Health and Workers’ Compensation Committee. Poster Presentation. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2004 Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA March 10-14, 2004.
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13. The e-Libra Dynamic Force Sensing Apparatus for Intraoperative Knee Ligament Balancing. Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 21, 2008
Rev. June 2013