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Elaine Tseng, MD (she/her/hers)

Professor of Surgery
University of California San Francisco and San Francisco VA Medical Centers
University of California San Francisco
South San Francisco, California, United States

Dr. Tseng is Professor of Surgery in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at University of California San Francisco and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at San Francisco VA Healthcare System. Her clinical expertise includes minimally invasive aortic valve replacement with Y-root enlargement, Ross operation, aortic surgery including ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm repairs, valve sparing aortic root replacements, structural heart disease—transcatheter aortic valve replacement and transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, and multi-arterial coronary artery bypass grafting.

Her academic research interests over the past 20 years have involved biomechanics, fluid dynamics, and computational simulations of aortic root surgery, including aortic stenosis, transcatheter aortic valves, Ross operation, ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm (aTAA) and dissection. She has been NIH R01 funded surgeon-scientist investigating the biomechanics of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms to determine better predictors of type A dissection than maximum diameter. She is currently funded through a VA Merit award to investigate the impact of aTAA biomechanics on dissection, rupture, and all-cause mortality. She is the UCSF/SFVA site-principal investigator for the multi-institutional international randomized trial of treatment of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms, TITAN trial, early surgery vs surveillance for 5.0-5.4cm aneurysms. She is also the site PI at UCSF for ROMA: Women, the randomized trial of single vs multiarterial coronary artery bypass grafting in women. She has published >100 scientific papers and book chapters. Dr. Tseng serves on the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Research Committee, American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Clinical Practice Standards Committee, and American Heart Association Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia Council, where she is Chair-Elect. She is on the Board of Directors for the Heart Valve Society and the Thoracic Surgery Foundation. She is the Science Editor for the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

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