Dr. Tuncay Taskesen, MD
Cardiac and Vascular Consultants, Florida
Dr. Tuncay Taskesen graduated from Ege University Medical School in Turkey in 2002. He completed Cardiovascular fellowship training at Dicle University Medical Center in Turkey and soon after became a practicing general cardiologist.
After moving to Seattle, WA, in 2012, Dr. Taskesen was accepted into the adult internal medicine residency program at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, IL. Following graduation in 2018, he joined the University of Iowa Hospitals as a cardiac hospitalist. He started a cardiovascular disease fellowship at Iowa Heart/Mercy One in Des Moines, IA. After his graduation in 2022, he joined West Virginia University for two years of advanced training in the interventional cardiology and adult structural cardiology fellowship program. He completed his training and graduated in July 2024.
His extensive clinical and advance procedural skills provide him both critical and high-risk patient care, including percutaneous stenting of simple and complex coronary disease, coronary imaging (IVUS and OCT), coronary physiology (FFR/iFR), and rotational atherectomy. He is a fully trained structural cardiologist. He is highly skilled in transcatheter valvuloplasty, valve replacement, valve repair, left atrial appendage closure, and closure of interatrial defects, including patent foramen ovale and atrial septal defects.
Dr. Taskesen has been very active in medical research. He has published numerous research articles in well-known national and international medical journals of high prestige. His research and clinical interests include coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, cardiac imaging, preventive cardiology, arrhythmias, and peripheral vascular disease.
Dr Taskesen is extremely dedicated and committed to treating patients with high-quality care and professionalism. His patients’ health, safety, and weal beings are his priority. Dr Taskesen believe in individualized patient centered care. Every patient is unique and needs personalized care. Each patient has to be active part of the decision making process for share decision making of their health.
