New York University Langone Medical Center
Rae Rokosh, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, graduated with her B.Sc. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from McGill University in 2013. She earned her medical degree from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine as an inaugural member of the three-year MD program and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 2016. Dr. Rokosh completed a two-year post-doctoral research fellowship, supported by the Harvard-Longwood NIH T32 Training Program in Vascular Surgery, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Dr. Elliot Chaikof’s lab investigating targeted fibrinolytics for venous thromboprophylaxis and the development of tissue engineered biomimetic blood vessel conduits. She is currently a PGY4 in the general surgery residency program at NYU. Her research and clinical interests include open and endovascular management of complex aortic pathologies, cerebrovascular disease, venous thromboembolism, chronic limb-threatening ischemia, and improving patient outcomes at the intersection of vascular surgery and palliative care.