Michael Dake, MD, FSIR

Dr. Dake is a leading researcher, clinician, teacher and administrator. He is internationally known for pioneering image-guided therapies and novel approaches in interventional therapy in the fields of vascular imaging, venous thromboembolic disease, aortic aneurysms and dissection. Dr. Dake made medical history with the implantation of the world’s first thoracic stent-graft in 1992 and his groundbreaking research with CT angiography and stent-grafts has rewritten medical and surgery textbooks.

Prior to joining U of A Health Sciences, he served at Stanford University as professor of cardiothoracic surgery and director of the catheterization and angiography laboratories at Stanford Medical Center, where he spent much of his career. Previously, he served as chairman of the Department of Radiology in the Virginia Health System.