Alan Dardik, MD, PhD, FACS

Departments & Organizations

Surgery: Vascular Surgery | Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program | Yale Medical Group

Research Interests

study of markers of blood vessel identity during vein graft adaptation, MRI analysis of carotid angioplasty, effects of laminar and turbulent blood flow in vivo, effects of aging on vein graft adaptation, bioengineering a “better” blood vessel  more...

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Education

• M.D./Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993

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Selected Publications

• Kudo FA, Muto A, Maloney SP, Pimiento JM, Bergaya S, Fitzgerald TN, Westvik TS, Frattini JC, Breuer CK, Cha CH, Nishibe T, Tellides G, Sessa WC, Dardik A. Venous identity is lost but arterial identity is not gained during vein graft adaptation. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 27(7):1562-1571 (2007).
• Fitzgerald TN, Shepherd BR, Asada H, Teso D, Muto A, Fancher T, Pimiento JM, Maloney SP, Dardik A. Laminar shear stress stimulates vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis via the Akt pathway. Journal of Cellular Physiology 216(2):389-395 (2008).
• Fancher TT, Muto A, Fitzgerald TN, Magri D, Gortler D, Nishibe T, Dardik A. Control of blood vessel identity: From embryo to adult. Annals of Vascular Diseases 1(1):28-34 (2008).

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