About Us
Our mission at the UF Health Aortic Disease Center is to deliver expert, patient-centered aortic care resulting in outstanding patient outcomes. Our multidisciplinary team uses advanced technologies and innovative therapies to diagnose and treat the most complex aortic diseases.
Why Choose UF Health?
The UF Health Aortic Disease Center’s experts combine leading-edge science with compassionate and personalized care. Our multidisciplinary approach benefits patients by providing the expertise of board-certified, fellowship trained physicians who specialize in cardiovascular and vascular surgery and endovascular therapy. Our center is one of the nation’s highest-volume aortic surgical centers, and our team sees patients from around the world, approaching each patient with one goal: to provide high-quality, patient-centered care that leads to outstanding outcomes – enabling patients to get back to their lives and their loved ones.
Conditions & Treatments
The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body. Our team at the UF Health Aortic Disease Center – ranked as one of the nation’s top-performing hospitals for abdominal aortic aneurysm by US News & World Report – understands its anatomy and importance to the functions of the rest of the body. Our physicians collaborate to provide expert care for the full spectrum of aortic diseases, including:
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
- Aortic Transection
- Bicuspid Aortic Valve
- Marfan Syndrome
- Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
- Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Our experts are physician-scientists working to advance medicine and surgical approaches for the treatment of aortic diseases. Our center offers the latest, most advanced surgical options and medical therapies for aortic diseases – tomorrow’s treatments for today’s patients – many of which are not available elsewhere.
Meet the Team
Cardiovascular Surgery
Department:
MD-SURGERY-TCV-CARDIOVASC
Tomas D Martin MD
Professor And Director, UF Health Aortic Disease Center
Department:
MD-SURGERY-TCV-CARDIOVASC
Thomas M Beaver MD, MPH
Grant And Shirle Herron Chair, Professor And Chief, Cardiovascular Surgery
Department:
MD-SURGERY-TCV-CARDIOVASC
Mark S Bleiweis MD
William G. Lassiter Jr. And Aneice R. Lassiter Professor And Director, UF Health Congenital Heart Center
Department:
MD-SURGERY-TCV-CARDIOVASC
Giles J Peek MD, FRCS CTh, FFICM, FELSO
Professor
Department:
MD-SURGERY-TCV-CARDIOVASC
Eric I Jeng MD, MBA, FACS, FACC
Assistant Professor
Department:
MD-SURGERY-TCV-CARDIOVASC
John R Spratt MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Vascular Surgery
Department:
MD-SURGERY-VASCULAR
Martin R Back MD, FACS, RPVI
Professor And Chief, Vascular Surgery
Department:
MD-SURGERY-VASCULAR
Michol A Cooper MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department:
MD-SURGERY-VASCULAR
Thomas S Huber MD, PhD
Edward R. Woodward Professor
Department:
MD-SURGERY-VASCULAR
Benjamin N Jacobs MD
Assistant Professor
Department:
MD-SURGERY-VASCULAR
Samir K Shah MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department:
MD-SURGERY-VASCULAR
Zain Shahid MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department:
MD-SURGERY-CHAIRMAN
Gilbert R Upchurch MD
Professor And Edward M. Copeland, III And The Ann & Ira Horowitz Department Chair
Locations
UF Health Heart & Vascular Hospital
1505 SW Archer Road
Gainesville, FL 32608
UF Health Surgical Specialists – Heart & Vascular Hospital
1505 SW Archer Road
Gainesville, FL 32608
