Dr. Robert Joseph Boucek, MD

Robert J. Boucek Jr., MD, is professor of pediatrics in the Division of Cardiology of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He holds the Thomas Bradley Armstrong Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology. He received his MD from Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans.



He completed a pediatrics internship and residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and fellowships in biochemistry and pediatric cardiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Boucek was the first medical director for the pediatric heart transplant programs at Vanderbilt and at the University of South Florida/All Children’s Hospital. He is active in clinical research pertaining to cardiac transplantation and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for the Study of Human Cardiomyopathy and other Heart Problems.

His basic research includes collaboration on myocardial regeneration strategies as applied to right ventricular …failure. He is principal investigator for a study of the role of pro-apoptotic phenotype in premature right ventricular failure. Boucek’s vision is to develop a nationally recognized center for the diagnosis and care of children with heart failure at Seattle Children’s.