2002 Wylie Scholar
Alan Dardik, MD, PhD, FACS, DFSVS, FAHA
Professor of Surgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, Yale University
Editor-in-Chief, JVS-Vascular Science
“My two greatest successes were leveraging the Wylie Scholar award into over $2 million dollars of NIH research funding, and using the stature of the award to gain a voice at the table when vascular research priorities are being determined at a national level by the SVS and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.”
Dr. Alan Dardik is a surgeon-scientist who harnesses the power of molecular biology to achieve a modern understanding of vascular disease, and then use the basic science laboratory to ultimately 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. He 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 is also a Vice Chair of Yale’s Department of Surgery where he is charged with Faculty Affairs, and he has served as Yale's Interim Division Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.
The Dardik lab studies the healing and function of blood vessels, fistulae and vessel patches that are used in patients having vascular surgery. The lab 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 lab 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 for the newly launched journal JVS-Vascular Science; he has served as the President of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, the Association of VA Surgeons, as well as the International Society for Vascular Surgery. Dr. Dardik 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, the American Heart Association, and Vascular Cures. Dr. Dardik has edited several textbooks including “Vascular Surgery: A Global Perspective” and “Stem cell therapy for vascular diseases.”