Clinical Spotlight: UF Health Aortic Disease Center Celebrates Five Years

For Tom Martin, M.D., the UF Health Aortic Disease Center is built around people.

From the center’s beginnings in 2018, Martin and his team set three goals: increase case volume, broaden their research and improve the quality of treatment for patients.

As of 2023, each goal has been met — and surpassed. The center’s case volume is up to 760, one of the highest across the country. An inaugural, continuing medical education-accredited International Aortic Symposium will debut in early December, detailing contemporary aortic pathology, diagnosis and treatment paradigms, connective tissue disorders and more. And, like the College of Medicine as a whole, the center is leveraging artificial intelligence to improve the future of health care, such as using AI tools to identify genes that may make certain patients more prone to developing advanced aortic complications.

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