Associate Professor of Surgery
Medstar Health
McLean, Virginia
Javairiah Fatima, MD, an Associate Professor of Surgery, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Society of Vascular Surgery, serves as the Co-Director of the Complex Aortic Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. In addition to this, she serves as a member of the Board of Directors for American Board of Vascular Surgery, as well as the Chief Co-Editor of Thoracic section of Endovascular Today Journal. Dr. Fatima specializes in open and endovascular aortic surgeries, aortic dissections, and fenestrated aortic aneurysm repair surgery (FEVAR) for which she is the only woman amongst a handful of vascular surgeons who have FDA approval for an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) to study use of F/B-EVAR technology for complex thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms and dissections.
Dr. Fatima received her medical degree from Aga Khan University in Pakistan. She completed her residency in general surgery at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Minnesota, followed by a vascular surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. She went on to complete additional training at Mayo Clinic for advanced thoracoabdominal fenestrated aortic therapies. Dr. Fatima has been the principal investigator on more than 30 clinical trials, with many addressing branch graft and fenestrated technology and has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. In addition, she is well-known as a frequent invited speaker at national and international medical conferences, including various national societies for Vascular Surgery. She has served as an instructor, speaker, discussant, and moderator at more than 60 National and International symposia for Vascular Surgery.
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