Surgery Grand Rounds Featuring Alan Dardik, MD, PhD
By Department of Surgery | Nov 28, 2022
The Department of Surgery has the distinct pleasure of hosting Alan Dardik, MD, PhD, FACS, DFSVS, FAHA as the upcoming Vascular Surgery Visiting Professor on December 1st, 2022 grand rounds with a presentation titled "Taking vessel identity from bench to bedside: The joys of being a surgeon-scientist."
Dr. Dardik is currently the Professor of Surgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine. He is a surgeon-scientist who harnesses the power of molecular biology to achieve a modern understanding of vascular disease, and then use the basic science laboratory to ultimately benefit patients with vascular diseases.
Dr. Dardik trained at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital before his appointment to the Yale faculty in 2001. Dr. Dardik focuses his clinical practice on teaching at the VA Connecticut, where he was formerly the Chief of Vascular Surgery. Dr. Dardik has won the C. Elton Cahow Award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching from Yale’s Department of Surgery and the Faculty Teaching Award from St. Mary’s Hospital. Dr. Dardik is also a Vice Chair of Yale’s Department of Surgery where he is charged with Faculty Affairs, and he has served as Yale's Interim Division Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.
The Dardik laboratory studies the healing and function of blood vessels, fistulae and vessel patches that are used in patients having vascular surgery. The laboratory is trying to understand the fundamental molecular mechanisms by which vein graft adaptation and arteriovenous fistula maturation result in positive remodeling and successful adaptation to the arterial environment, yet often proceed, in the long-term, to neointimal hyperplasia and failure. The laboratory is funded from the National Institutes of Health as well as Yale's Department of Surgery.
Dr. Dardik is deeply committed to the training and mentoring of young investigators, especially those interested in becoming surgeon-scientists; he has been a mentor to over 25 predoctoral students for MD, PhD, MD/PhD, and masters’ degrees, and to over 50 postdoctoral fellows, many of whom have entered academic surgical careers.
Dr. Dardik currently serves as the Editor for the newly launched journal JVS-Vascular Science; he has served as the President of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, the Association of VA Surgeons, as well as the International Society for Vascular Surgery. Dr. Dardik has run several national and international meetings, including the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Research Initiatives Conference, and has served on numerous peer review committees including review for the NIH, the Veterans Affairs, the American Heart Association, and Vascular Cures. Dr. Dardik has edited several textbooks including “Vascular Surgery: A Global Perspective” and “Stem cell therapy for vascular diseases.”
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