Resident
Stanford University
Dr. Alex R. Dalal is a fifth-year Integrated Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery resident at Stanford University currently completing an NIH funded Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32) research fellowship in Dr. Michael Fischbein's lab. Alex is studying the molecular mechanisms of aneurysm formation in genetic aortopathies, such as Marfan Syndrome and Loeys-Dietz Syndrome. In addition, he is interested outcomes research for aortic surgery. Alex previously spent two years working in Dr. Fischbein's lab as a lab tech prior to medical school and is excited to return to the lab as a postdoc.