June 10, 2026
June 10, 2026 —
Joshua Bardin, MD, was already retired when a former student reached out to him about a teaching opportunity. It was 2006, and Bardin had recently traded his 26-year-long career as a vascular surgeon in San Diego for a picturesque retirement in Incline Village in Lake Tahoe.
May 27, 2026
May 27, 2026 —
Ian Glenn, MD, didn’t have a linear path to cardiothoracic surgery. While he had an initial interest in medical school, his path deviated after his cardiothoracic surgery rotation.
April 30, 2026
April 30, 2026 —
Tom Alsaigh, MD, is a vascular medicine physician-scientist who studies vascular genomics and has built a longitudinal vascular care practice in the same city where he was raised: San Diego.
January 26, 2026
January 26, 2026 —
Cristian Puerta, MD, came to UC San Diego in 2022 to conduct research in the lab of Patricia Thistlethwaite, MD, PhD. He began researching cardiothoracic disease biomarkers and, after years of hard work, he became one of three first authors on a study about a new biomarker.
November 25, 2025
November 25, 2025 —
The UC San Diego Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine is nationally recognized across numerous surgical specialties, offers eleven distinguished educational programs, and operates one of the world’s most advanced training facilities.
November 25, 2025
November 25, 2025 —
Kyle Thompson, M.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine at UC San Diego. He performs surgeries to treat a congenital condition called esophageal atresia.
November 6, 2025
November 6, 2025 —
Every day, more than 100,000 people in the United States wait for an organ transplant. The REIMAGINE Center is a pioneering initiative aimed at addressing the urgent public health crisis caused by the dire organ shortage in the face of the ever-increasing need for transplants.
