Alan Dardik

Alan Dardik, professor emeritus of surgery and of cellular and molecular physiology, is a surgeon-scientist who harnesses the power of molecular biology to achieve a modern understanding of vascular disease, with the ultimate aim of using the basic science laboratory to benefit patients with vascular diseases.

Dr. Dardik trained at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital before his appointment to the Yale faculty in 2001. He focuses his clinical practice on teaching at the VA Connecticut, where he was formerly the chief of vascular surgery and currently serves as the chief of surgery. Dr. Dardik has won the C. Elton Cahow Award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching from Yale’s Department of Surgery and the Faculty Teaching Award from St. Mary’s Hospital. Dr. Dardik has served Yale’s Department of Surgery as a vice chair of faculty affairs, as well as interim division chief of vascular and endovascular surgery.

The Dardik laboratory studies the healing and function of blood vessels, fistulae and vessel patches that are used in patients having vascular surgery. The laboratory is trying to understand the fundamental molecular mechanisms by which vein graft adaptation and arteriovenous fistula maturation result in positive remodeling and successful adaptation to the arterial environment, yet often proceed, in the long-term, to neointimal hyperplasia and failure. The laboratory also studies novel methods to deliver stem cells to diabetic wounds. The laboratory is funded from the NIH as well as Yale’s Department of Surgery.

Dr. Dardik currently serves as the editor-in-chief for the translational science journal JVS-Vascular Science. He is the past president of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, the Association of VA Surgeons, as well as of the International Society for Vascular Surgery. He has run several national and international meetings, including the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Research Initiatives Conference, and has served on numerous peer review committees including review for the NIH, the VA, and Vascular Cures. Dr. Dardik has edited several textbooks including Vascular Surgery: A Global Perspective and Stem Cell Therapy for Vascular Diseases.