Dr. Anji T. Yetman is the director of Vascular Medicine, Cardiology with
Children’s Specialty Physicians. She is
also a professor of Pediatrics and Internal
Medicine at UNMC College of Medicine. Before
joining Children’s, she was director of Adult Congenital Cardiology and director
of Marfan subspecialty clinics at the University
of Utah. Dr. Yetman received her medical degree from McMaster Medical School in
Hamilton, Canada. She completed her Pediatrics residency at Victoria Hospital and
Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, and her Pediatric
Cardiology and Adult Congenital Cardiology training at The Hospital for Sick Children
in Toronto. Her research interests include Turner syndrome, Marfan syndrome, cardiovascular
genetics, aortic pathology, adult congenital heart disease, exercise testing, and
rural medicine.
Dr. Dong-chuan
Guo obtained his MSc and PhD from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese
Academy of Science, Beijing, China. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medical
Genetics at the Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston). His research
focus includes (1) recruiting and characterizing families with multiple
members with vascular disease and then using positional cloning, candidate
gene sequencing, and exome sequencing approaches to identify the causative
mutation for familial TAAD and (2) single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based
case-control association study to identify the genetic contribution and genetic
and environmental interaction to the pathogenesis of non-familial TAAD.
Dr. Siddharth
Prakash obtained his PhD in Molecular and Human Genetics and subspecialty
training in Cardiovascular Disease at Baylor College of Medicine. He is currently
Professor in the Department of Internal
Medicine at John P and Kathrine G McGovern Medical School, part of The University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston). He also co-directs the Turner Syndrome
Adult Comprehensive Care Center and the Multidisciplinary Aortic and Vascular
Disease Clinic in the UT Professional Building. His research focuses on
genetic causes of bicuspid aortic valve and related congenital abnormalities
involving the left ventricular outflow tract and aorta. This work is supported
in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. His clinical
specialty is cardiovascular medicine and aortic imaging.
