Asonye, Sandra

Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained medical genetics specialist focused on identifying the genetic and molecular triggers for vascular diseases and mentoring the next generation of physician-scientists. She's a professor, President George H.W. Bush Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine, director of the Division of Medical Genetics, and director of the John Ritter Research Program at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. She's also the director of the joint MD-PhD Program between The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and McGovern Medical School. Milewicz received her medical and doctorate degrees in 1984, completed her residency in 1987, and concluded fellowship training in cardiology in 1988 at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She completed fellowship training in medical genetics in 1991 at the University of Washington. Milewicz's research has identified the altered genes triggering vascular diseases, including aortic dissections and moyamoya disease, and identified the molecular links between the defective genes and the resulting vascular diseases. She chairs two international research consortiums, the Montalcino Aortic Consortium to define precision medical care for genetic vascular diseases and a Leducq Network of Excellence to identify molecular triggers for aortic dissections.