December 21, 2023
In this episode, host, Geoffrey Rubin, MD, MBA, F新澳门六合彩官网, talks with Michael D. Dake, MD, Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and Professor of Medical Imaging, Surgery and Medicine at the University of Arizona.
Born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, the son of teachers, Dr. Dake is a graduate of Harvard College and Baylor College of Medicine, where he completed an internship, residency and chief residency in internal medicine. He pursued fellowship training in pulmonary diseases, followed by a residency and chief residency in radiology at the University of California San Francisco. He went on to complete subspecialty training in vascular and interventional radiology at UCSF.
Dr. Dake is internationally known for pioneering image-guided therapies and novel approaches to treating venous thromboembolic disease, aortic aneurysms, and dissection. He made medical history by implanting the world's first thoracic stent-graft in 1992.
He currently serves the University of Arizona as Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, overseeing the activities of six colleges: The College of Medicine-Tucson, The College of Medicine-Phoenix, the College of Nursing, the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, and the College of Health Sciences.
Prior to joining the University of Arizona 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.
During this very special conversation, you will be inspired by Dr. Dake's impressive and fascinating leadership journey, and you hear how John Wooden, John Kenneth Galbraith, James Watson (the father of DNA), Henry Kissinger and Charlie Munger all played a role.
