
Pocivavsek Lab
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Dr. David Jiang giving an excellent talk at #ASC2024 on using aortic shape to define chronicity of TBAD. UChicagoAorta UChicago Surgery Residents UChicago Surgery UChicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Kameel Khabaz presenting his pioneering work at #ASC2024 on using local area expansion mapping as inputs for aortic morphoelastic modeling of TBAD degeneration. UChicagoAorta UChicago Surgery

Could not be prouder of Dr. Alyssa Varsanik (UChicago Surgery Residents and UChicago Surgery ) presenting her phenomenal collaborative work with Yale (Alan Dardik MD PhD) at #ASC2024 . Dedicated application of her engineering training to a surgical problem!


Congrats to Anna Gaffney for winning the poster competition in theory and computation at the Biophysical Society meeting! Amazing work on a generalized continuum model of lipid monolayer elasticity implemented with finite elements.


It was amazing having Edith Tzeng be our 31st annual Huggins Research Day speaker. Amazing mentor, surgeon, and scientist. Thank you Dr. Tzeng for inspiring us all. Pitt Surgery UChicago Pritzker School of Medicine UChicago Surgery Residents UChicago Surgery



UChicago Surgery SQUAD is comin’ in hot!!! 🔥🔥🔥 Student National Medical Association, Inc (SNMA), we are so excited to connect with YOU at #AMEC2024! LET’S GOOOOO!!! UChicago Orthopaedic Residency UChicago Plastic Surgery UChicago Urology Residency UChicagoOHNS UChicago Surgery Residents

Congratulations Hualong Alyssa Varsanik Carly Thaxton Pocivavsek Lab great collaborative paper in AJP-Heart and Circ characterizing the AVF juxtaanastomosis area doi.org/10.1152/ajphea… Yale Surgery YaleVBTProgram Yale Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy Yale School of Medicine


Congrats to Dr Kelly Twohig for a great poster on the shape diversity of patients treated with Nexus arch device at Vascular SVS #VRIC20. UChicago Surgery Residents UChicagoAorta Endospan


Wonderful international mini-workshop on the physics of endoleak at University of Chicago Department of Surgery. Thank you to our visitors from Slovenia, Vietnam, Chile, and Israel for such stimulating discussions! UChicago Surgery UChicagoAorta Weitzman Institute Universidad de Santiago de Chile


Great end to second day of our aortic biomechanics symposium. Thank you The University of Chicago Global for the support, it was wonderful to have all collaborators from Vietnam, Israel, Chile, and Slovenia here on campus for the week.





Congrats to Pocivavsek Lab on their recent publication on endovascular aortic repair! Their computational research enhances our understanding on TEVAR and EVAR outcomes #AorticResearch #SurBioMech sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What a great night celebrating these amazing people!! Full circle at graduation this year.. congrats to these once upon interns at my own graduation! So proud of you all! 💕UChicago Surgery Residents UChicago Surgery Jeff Matthews MD


Look who I ran into in the locker room!! UChicago Surgery UChicago Surgery Residents


Another successful NEXUS® procedure performed to treat an aortic arch aneurysm by the UChicagoAorta team, including Dr. Luka Pocivavsek and Clayton Brinster. Learn more about our technology: endospan.com