Tarvez Tucker, MD

Hi, I am Tarvez Tucker, a Professor of Neurology and a Neuroscience Intensive Care physician at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. I have a keen interest in my patients' last words and moments and the neuroscience of critical brain injury and death. 

I have been at the bedside of hundreds of patients as they near death, or are transiently victorious over death, hearing their last words to those they have loved, their thoughts and hopes for the afterlife, their regrets and joy in their life’s memories.

I have also served as a neurologist for the National Football League, examining Cincinnati Bengals players suspected of having a concussion…a harrowing experience!

📖 My forthcoming book, The Brain at Twilight: The Neuroscience of Our Last Words and Moments, will be published this winter by Columbia University Press, and is now available for pre-order. 

Learn more at www.TarvezTucker.com