Michael D. Dake, MD, is senior vice president for the University of Arizona Health Sciences. As head of the academic medical center, he directs strategic integration of undergraduate and graduate education, research, service and clinical activities across UArizona Health Sciences colleges, centers and clinical affiliates.

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

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