Resident
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Catherine “Cat” Go was born and raised in California, where she attended UC Berkeley and majored in molecular biology and mathematics. She worked in consulting and R&D portfolio management for two years prior to attending the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She discovered vascular surgery as a 1st year medical student and started her research career investigating the anti-inflammatory effects of carbon monoxide and its application in aortic aneurysms in mice. As her interest in vascular surgery grew, she also explored clinical research, specifically looking at outcomes after carotid endarterectomy. After graduating from Pitt Med cum laude in 2014, she started her integrated vascular residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and has won teaching awards for her work with medical students. She is currently finishing her first of two research years with Dr. Bryan Tillman MD PhD investigating the use of a retrievable, Rescue stent in non-compressible torso hemorrhage in a swine model of trauma and the use of electromagnetism in facilitating fenestration cannulation.