Research Reels Video: Dr. Dianna Milewicz
“Deaths from thoracic aortic dissections, like what took the life of actor John Ritter, are preventable,” said Dianna Wilewicz, MD, PhD. As director of the John Ritter Research Program, she focuses her research on the genetic defects that have made generations of family members more susceptible to the disease.
Watch Dr. Wilewicz’s Research Reel as she describes why her research, and a strong cardiovascular surgery team at UTHealth Houston, has become a worldwide model for understanding and treating this condition.