Roland Assi, MD, MMS, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery (Cardiac); Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Surgery; Medical Director of Perfusion Services, Heart and Vascular Center
The primary interest of the Assi lab is to advance the understanding of the natural history and mechanisms of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection, and the investigation of genetic aortic conditions. The lab closely collaborates with vascular biologists, biomedical engineers, computational genomic scientists, and applied mathematicians.