Akiko Tanaka, MD, PhD

Vascular Surgeon
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Houston, Texas

GRADUATE:
3/2002 Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan - M.D.
7/2013 Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan - Ph.D.

TRAINING/APPOINTMENTS:
6/2003-10/2013 Kobe Univerity Hospital Affiliations, Japan - Resident/Fellow/Assistant Professor
10/2013-6/2015 University of Chicago Biological Sciences - Postdoctoral Scholar
11/2015-6/2017 McGovern Medical School at UTHealth - Aortic Fellow
7/2017-6/2022 McGovern Medical School at UTHealth - Integrated Vasucular Surgery Resident

Presentation(s):

• VESS10 - Impact of a new dissection classification of Society for Vascular Surgery and Society of Thoracic Surgeons on acute Stanford type A aortic dissection

  Wednesday, June 4, 2025
  2:41 PM – 2:52 PM CT

• Debate: Ascending Repair Alone for Type A Aortic Dissection Is Just Passing the Buck! Someone Else Has to Clean Up Later!

  Friday, June 6, 2025
  2:00 PM – 2:07 PM CT