University of California San Francisco

Marko T. Boskovski, MD, MHS, MPH

Dr. Marko T. Boskovski
Marko
Boskovski
MD, MHS, MPH

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Program Director, Cardiac Surgery & Lung Transplantation Grand Rounds
Associate Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Residency Program
Division of Cardiac Surgery & Lung Transplantation
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Director of Ross and Aortic Valve Preserving Surgery, UCSF Health

 

Academic Office:
500 Parnassus Ave, MUW 405, Box 0118
San Francisco, CA 94143-0118
Tel: 415-353-8890
Email: [email protected]
Admin: [email protected]

Cardiac Surgery Program
400 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 501, Box 0957
San Francisco, California,  94143
Tel: 415-353-1606
Fax: 415-353-1312

Cardiac Surgery Program at SFVA
San Francisco VA Medical Center
4150 Clement St, bldg 112
San Francisco, CA 94121
Tel: 415-221-4810
 

Biography

Dr. Marko T. Boskovski is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCSF and Director of Ross and Aortic Valve Preserving Surgery. He specializes in complex surgery of the thoracic aorta (the part of the aorta, which is the body's largest artery, located in the chest). He has a special interest in aortic root surgery (repairing an enlarged section of the aorta to prevent a rupture or other problems), including the Ross procedure (which replaces a damaged aortic valve with the patient's pulmonary valve), valve-sparing aortic root replacement (techniques that preserve the patient's aortic valve) and aortic valve repair.

Education

Education
Washington University in St. Louis, B.A. Physics, 2007
Yale School of Medicine, M.D., 2012
Yale School of Medicine, M.H.S., 2012
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, M.P.H. 2017
Residencies

Brigham and Women's Hospital, General Surgery, 2012-2019

Postdoctoral Training

Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Cardiovascular Genetics, 2015-2017

Clinical Expertise

Ross Procedure
Aortic valve repair
Valve sparing aortic root replacement
Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery
Minimally invasive aortic root surgery
Complex surgery for thoracic aortic aneurysms

Program Affiliations

  • UCSF Heart and Vascular Center
  • UCSF Center for Aortic Disease

Research Narrative

Dr. Boskovski's research focuses on the biomechanics and genetics of diseases affecting the thoracic aorta and surgeries like the Ross procedure.

Research Interests

Cardiovascular genetics
Genetic predictors of clinical outcomes
Cardiac developmental biology

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 10
  1. Infections of Selected Nonvalvular Cardiovascular Devices: A ScienceAdvisory From the American Heart Association.
    Chesdachai S, Ghobrial J, El-Chami MF, Dionne A, Lok CE, Gonzalez AA, Heitschmidt MG, Boskovski M, Brida M, Baddour LM, American Heart Association Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Diseases and the| | PubMed
  2. Cardiopulmonary bypass is safe and effective support for concomitant high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention and transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
    Gomez A, Matthews ME, Grober A, Ferreira R, Shunk KA, Zimmet J, Tseng EE, Boskovski MT| | PubMed
  3. Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms in a Veterans Affairs Health System: Longitudinal Outcomes and Risk Factors.
    Gomez A, Carroway W, Tu S, Kailash V, Ge L, Boskovski M, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  4. Role of aortic distensibility and stiffness in ascending thoracic aneurysm outcomes.
    Gomez A, Carroway W, Raval N, Ge L, Boskovski M, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  5. Completed and ongoing trials in minimally invasive cardiac surgery coronary surgery.
    Boskovski MT, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  6. Ischemic events after coronary artery bypass grafting: when to treat interventionally, medically or surgically?
    Bernstein HM, Reddy RK, Boskovski M, Ahmad Y| | PubMed
  7. Genome sequencing is critical for forecasting outcomes following congenital cardiac surgery.
    Watkins WS, Hernandez EJ, Miller TA, Blue NR, Zimmerman RM, Griffiths ER, Frise E, Bernstein D, Boskovski MT, Brueckner M, Chung WK, Gaynor JW, Gelb BD, Goldmuntz E, Gruber PJ, Newburger JW, Roberts AE, Morton SU, Mayer JE, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Shen Y, Wagner M, Yost HJ, Yandell M, Tristani-Firouzi M| | PubMed
  8. Bicuspid valve-sparing aortic root replacement with the remodelling procedure.
    Elmankabadi S, Hoang P, Tseng EE, Boskovski MT| | PubMed
  9. The 10 Commandments for State-of-the-Art Imaging of the Proximal Thoracic Aorta.
    Boskovski MT, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  10. Genome Sequencing is Critical for Forecasting Outcomes Following Congenital Cardiac Surgery.
    Watkins WS, Hernandez EJ, Miller T, Blue N, Zimmerman R, Griffiths E, Frise E, Bernstein D, Boskovski M, Brueckner M, Chung W, Gaynor JW, Gelb B, Goldmuntz E, Gruber P, Newburger J, Roberts A, Morton S, Mayer J, Seidman C, Seidman J, Shen Y, Wagner M, Yost HJ, Yandell M, Tristani-Firouzi M| | PubMed