Ourania Preventza

Ourania Preventza is the George Minor Professor of Surgery at the Department of Surgery, and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Virginia. She is also adjunct Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston where she spent 15 years of her career, and an associate professional staff at The Texas Heart Institute, in Houston. Dr. Preventza is triple-boarded; American Board of Surgery, American Board of Surgery (Surgical Critical Care), and American Board of Thoracic Surgery. She is the immediate Past President of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists 2021-2023( ISEVS). Prior leader of Adult Cardiac Surgery within the Women in Thoracic Surgery, immediate Past Program Committee Chair of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, and immediate past co chair of the adult cardiac surgery program of the AATS annual meeting and a holder of a management and business administration degree on Health Care leadership from Brandeis University in Boston. She is the Co –chair of the 2022 ACC/AHA guidelines on aortic disease and co –authored of more than 200 articles in peer review journals. Her interest includes education, health outcomes research, aortic surgery, heart valve surgery, new technologies and cardiovascular disease and women.