Dr. Michael Dake

Dr. Michael Dake has been appointed senior VP of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. Dake is an internationally recognized physician-scientist, health educator and medical researcher. He leads the integration of undergraduate and graduate education, research and clinical activities among UA health colleges and their clinical partners. He made medical history in 1992 with the implantation of the world’s first thoracic stent-graph, the first in the United States.