Education | Mi-AORTA
Educational Opportunities with the MI-AORTA program
Seminar Series
The Michigan Medicine, MI-AORTA program, hosts a monthly Seminar Series for one hour of educational credit to attendees, related to aortic disease. The goal of the seminar series is for attendees to gain extensive expertise in understanding and treating thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms, aortic dissection, and other pathologies through case study presentations, didactic lectures, and collaboration. Attendees are a multi-disciplinary group that encompasses faculty and staff from Cardiac Imaging, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Medicine, Interventional Radiology, Medical Genetics and Vascular Surgery.
MI-AORTA brings out renowned speakers from institutions around the world to share research, insight, and expertise on cutting edge topics and patient cases.
Our Seminar Series runs September through June. Sessions are from 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM on the third Friday of each month. If you're interested in attending these, please email [email protected].
Past Seminars
January 16, 2026
Bioengineered Human Arteries - From Concept to FDA Approval
Presented by Laura Niklason, MD, PhD
President and CEO, Humacyte Inc. Adjunct Professor, Yale University
February 20, 2026
Pediatric Aortopathy - Considerations for Care
Presented by Mark Russell, MD
Aaron Stern Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
Professor of Pediatrics, Medical School
March 20, 2026
Changing Paradigms in Thoracic Aortic Injury Care
Presented by Joseph DuBose, MD
Professor of Surgery, Dell School of Medicine
University of Texas – Austin
Director, Integrated Trauma Research
Director, Endovascular / Vascular Resuscitation and Trauma Management
May 15, 2026
Aortopathy in Large Vessel Vasculitis
Presented by Ken Warrington, MD
Director, Vasculitis Clinic
Chair Emeritus and Consultant, Division of Rheumatology
John F. Finn, MN Arthritis Foundation Professor of Medicine,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
January 17, 2025
"Aortic imaging for large vessel vasculitis"
Presented by Peter Grayson, MD MSc
Senior Investigator
Chief, Vasculitis Translational Research Program
NIH
March 21, 2025
"The 4D Flow of MRI and Computational Fluid Dynamics to Predict False Lumen Degeneration in Acute Type B Aortic Dissection "
Presented by Bradley G. Leshnower, MD
Director of Thoracic Aortic Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Emory University School of Medicine
September 19, 2025
"Endovascular Navigation with Fiber optic RealShape Technology"
Presented by Joost van Herwaarden, MD, PhD
Professor, Division of Surgical Specialties Department of Vascular Surgery Circulatory Health UMC Utrecht
November 21, 2025
“Leveraging Nature’s Success: Lessons from Modifiers of Marfan Syndrome and Related Aneurysm Disorders”
Presented by Hal Dietz III, MD
Victor A. McKusick Professor of Pediatrics at the Department of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine past Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
December 19, 2025
"Hereditary Aortic Disease from Ultrarare to Common"
Presented by Mark Lindsay, MD, PhD
Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Program, Mass General Hospital Associate Member,
Broad Institute Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
December 20, 2024
"End-of-the-year Update on Clinical Trials and Aortic-related Research"
Jon Eliason, MD: Vascular Clinical Trials
Marion Hofmann Bowman, MD: Exercise after Dissection trial and future trials
Jessica Woodford, MPH, MPP, CCRP: IMPROVE-AD
Amanda Kasperek, BCN, CCRP: Cardiac Surgery Aortic Trials
November 15, 2024
"Aortic Remodeling and Inflammation in Hypertension and Aneurysm"
Presented by Jay Humphrey, PhD
John C Malone Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
October 18, 2024
"Aligning Aortic Registries and Databases"
Presented by Jeremy Wolverton, MS
Data Architect
Department of Cardiac Surgery
University of Michigan
September 20, 2024
"Genetic Insights: Shaping the Future of Vascular Surgical Decision"
Presented by Sherene Shalhub, MD
Division Head of OHSU Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
John Porter M.D. Endowed Professor in Vascular Surgery
Oregon Health and Science University
May 17, 2024
"Endoleak Management Following Thoracic Aortic Interventions"
Presented by Minhaj Khaja, MD
David W. William, MD Research Professor,
Professor of Radiology & Cardiac Surgery
University of Michigan
Medical School
April 19, 2024
"Warm Aortic Arch Repair: Road to Elimination of Hypothermic Circulatory"
Presented by Shinichi Fukuhara, MD
G. Michael Deeb M.D. and Nancy Deeb Research Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Clinical Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Surgical Director of Structural Heart Disease, Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Program Director, Integrated Residency & Thoracic Surgery Fellowship
March 15, 2024
"IMPROVE-AD Trial"
Presented by Bo Yang, MD, PhD
Frankel Professor of Aortic Surgery
Director of Aortic Surgery
Director of Research
University of Michigan
China Green, MS, CCRC
Clinical Research Manager
Department of Cardiac Surgery
University of Michigan
February 16, 2024
"Vulnerable Aorta"
Presented by George Tellides, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Yale School of Medicine
January 19, 2024
"What Diameter Does (and Does Not) Tell Us About Thoracic Aortic Disease"
Presented by Nicholas Burris, MD
Associate Professor Cardiothoracic Radiology
Director of Aortic & Structural Heart Imagine
University of Michigan
December 15, 2023
"Cardiovascular 4D Flow MRI in Aortic Valve Disease"
Presented by Michael Markl, MD, PhD
Professor & Vice Chair for Research
Lester B. and Frances T. Knight Professor of Cardiac Imaging
Departments of Radiology & Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
November 3, 2023
"Staged Hybrid for Complex TAAA: Have we really changed the outcomes?"
Presented by Gilbert Upchurch, MD
Edward M. Copeland III and Ann & Ira Horowitz Chair
Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Florida
October 20, 2023
"Percutaneous Treatment of Aortic Regurgitation: Challenges & Opportunities"
Presented by Stanley Chetcuti, MD
Clinical Professor
Cardiovascular Medicine
Michigan Medicine
October 6, 2023
"Insights into MI-AORTA Clinical Program: A collaborative of Aortic Care at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center"
Presented by Kailey Chisolm, PA-C
MI-AORTA Outreach APP & Referral Liaison
Frankel Cardiovascular Center
University of Michigan
September 15, 2023
"Immune Pathway of Large Vessel Vasculitis"
Presented by Cornelia M. Weyand, MD, PhD
Research Chair,
Division of Rheumatology,
Department of Internal Medicine,
Mayo Clinic
March 17, 2023
"F-BEVAR for Post Dissection Arch and TAAA Aneurysms"
Presented by Stephan Haulon, MD
Professor of Vascular Sugery, Head of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery,
Hopital Marie Lannelongue,
Groupe Hospitalier St. Joseph,
Paris Saclay Unversity
February 17, 2023
"Intracranial aneurysms in patients with Loeys-Dietz Syndrome"
Presented by Anna Huguenard, MD
Resident Physician,
Department of Neurological Surgery,
Barnes-Jewish Hopsital,
Washington University School of Medicine,
St. Louis
January 20, 2023
"Endovascular Therapies and Connective Tissue Disorders: Perils of the Past, Present and Future"
Presented by James Black, MD, FACS
Chief of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy,
Johns Hopkins Hospital,
The David Goldfarb, MD Professor of Surgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Visiting Faculty, The McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
December 16, 2022
"Aortic Valve Repair: State of the Art"
Presented by Gebrine El Khoury, MD
Head of the Cliniques universitaires Saint-
Luc's Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Professor at Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
November 18, 2022
"2022 Aortic Guidelines: What is new?"
Presented by Marion Hofmann, MD
Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine,
Medical School
