University of California San Francisco

Dr. Marko T. Boskovski
Marko
Boskovski
MD, MHS, MPH

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Director of Ross and Aortic Valve Preserving Surgery
 

Academic Office:
500 Parnassus Ave, MUW 405, Box 0118
San Francisco, CA 94143-0118
Tel: 415-353-8890
Email: [email protected]
Admin: [email protected]

Cardiac Surgery Program
400 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 501, Box 0957
San Francisco, California,  94143
Tel: 415-353-1606
Fax: 415-353-1312

Cardiac Surgery Program at SFVA
San Francisco VA Medical Center
4150 Clement St, bldg 112
San Francisco, CA 94121
Tel: 415-221-4810
 

Biography

Dr. Marko T. Boskovski is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCSF and Director of Ross and Aortic Valve Preserving Surgery. He specializes in complex surgery of the thoracic aorta (the part of the aorta, which is the body's largest artery, located in the chest). He has a special interest in aortic root surgery (repairing an enlarged section of the aorta to prevent a rupture or other problems), including the Ross procedure (which replaces a damaged aortic valve with the patient's pulmonary valve), valve-sparing aortic root replacement (techniques that preserve the patient's aortic valve) and aortic valve repair.

Education

Education
Washington University in St. Louis, B.A. Physics, 2007
Yale School of Medicine, M.D., 2012
Yale School of Medicine, M.H.S., 2012
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, M.P.H. 2017
Residencies

Brigham and Women's Hospital, General Surgery, 2012-2019

Fellowships

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cardiothoracic Surgery (4+3), 2017-2021

Postdoctoral Training

Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Cardiovascular Genetics, 2015-2017

Clinical Expertise

Ross Procedure
Aortic valve repair
Valve sparing aortic root replacement
Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery
Minimally invasive aortic root surgery
Complex surgery for thoracic aortic aneurysms

Foreign Languages Spoken

Macedonian

Program Affiliations

  • UCSF Heart and Vascular Center
  • UCSF Center for Aortic Disease

Research Narrative

Dr. Boskovski's research focuses on the biomechanics and genetics of diseases affecting the thoracic aorta and surgeries like the Ross procedure.

Research Interests

Cardiovascular genetics
Genetic predictors of clinical outcomes
Cardiac developmental biology

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 27
  1. The 10 Commandments for State-of-the-Art Imaging of the Proximal Thoracic Aorta.
    Boskovski MT, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  2. Genome Sequencing is Critical for Forecasting Outcomes Following Congenital Cardiac Surgery.
    Watkins WS, Hernandez EJ, Miller T, Blue N, Zimmerman R, Griffiths E, Frise E, Bernstein D, Boskovski M, Brueckner M, Chung W, Gaynor JW, Gelb B, Goldmuntz E, Gruber P, Newburger J, Roberts A, Morton S, Mayer J, Seidman C, Seidman J, Shen Y, Wagner M, Yost HJ, Yandell M, Tristani-Firouzi M| | PubMed
  3. Saphenous Vein Graft Pseudoaneurysm Treated With Covered Stenting.
    Patel JN, Anderson DR, Ghauri MS, Yang J, Zimmet J, Tseng E, Shunk KA, Boskovski M| | PubMed
  4. Temporal evolution of ascending aortic aneurysm wall stress predicts all-cause mortality.
    Zamirpour S, Gulati A, Xuan Y, Leach JR, Saloner DA, Guccione JM, Boskovski MT, Ge L, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  5. Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement with Y-incision aortic root enlargement.
    Boskovski MT, Arammash M, Nguyen TC, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  6. Reimplantation vs Remodeling: End of the Debate?
    Tseng EE, Boskovski M| | PubMed
  7. Sex differences in ascending aortic size reporting and growth on chest computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
    Zamirpour S, Boskovski MT, Pirruccello JP, Pace WA, Hubbard AE, Leach JR, Ge L, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  8. Navigating Promotion in Thoracic Surgery.
    Boskovski MT, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  9. Current Therapeutic Options in Aortic Stenosis.
    Boskovski MT, Gleason TG| | PubMed
  10. Reply: Training the next generation of thoracic surgical trainees-the "Cardiothoracic Surgical Community" role in promoting mentorship and scholarship in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) era.
    Hirji SA, Boskovski MT, Moon M, Kaneko T| | PubMed
  11. De Novo Damaging Variants, Clinical Phenotypes, and Post-Operative Outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease.
    Boskovski MT, Homsy J, Nathan M, Sleeper LA, Morton S, Manheimer KB, Tai A, Gorham J, Lewis M, Swartz M, Alfieris GM, Bacha EA, Karimi M, Meyer D, Nguyen K, Bernstein D, Romano-Adesman A, Porter GA, Goldmuntz E, Chung WK, Srivastava D, Kaltman JR, Tristani-Firouzi M, Lifton R, Roberts AE, Gaynor JW, Gelb BD, Kim R, Seidman JG, Brueckner M, Mayer JE, Newburger JW, Seidman CE| | PubMed
  12. Enhancing thoracic surgical trainee competence in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) era: Challenges and opportunities for mentorship.
    Boskovski MT, Hirji SA, Brescia AA, Chang AC, Kaneko T| | PubMed
  13. Registry-based trials: a potential model for cost savings?
    Anderson BR, Gotlieb EG, Hill K, McHugh KE, Scheurer MA, Mery CM, Pelletier GJ, Kaltman JR, White OJ, Trachtenberg FL, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, McCrindle BW, Sylvester DM, Eckhauser AW, Pasquali SK, Anderson JB, Schamberger MS, Shashidharan S, Jacobs JP, Jacobs ML, Boskovski M, Newburger JW, Nathan M, Pediatric Heart Network| | PubMed
  14. Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis: A Review of a Disruptive Technology in Aortic Valve Surgery.
    Boskovski MT, Nguyen TC, McCabe JM, Kaneko T| | PubMed
  15. Risk of reoperative valve surgery for endocarditis associated with drug use.
    Mori M, Bin Mahmood SU, Schranz AJ, Sultan I, Axtell AL, Sarsour N, Hiesinger W, Boskovski MT, Hirji S, Kaneko T, Woo J, Tang P, Jassar AS, Atluri P, Whitson BA, Gleason T, Geirsson A| | PubMed
  16. A video-based, flipped classroom, simulation curriculum for dermatologic surgery: A prospective, multi-institution study.
    Liu KJ, Tkachenko E, Waldman A, Boskovski MT, Hartman RI, Levin AA, Nguyen BM, Ruiz ES, Sharon VR, Sowerby L, Tiger J, Yang FC, Mostaghimi A| | PubMed
  17. Robust identification of deletions in exome and genome sequence data based on clustering of Mendelian errors.
    Manheimer KB, Patel N, Richter F, Gorham J, Tai AC, Homsy J, Boskovski MT, Parfenov M, Goldmuntz E, Chung WK, Brueckner M, Tristani-Firouzi M, Srivastava D, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Gelb BD, Sharp AJ| | PubMed
  18. Systematic review of measurement tools to assess surgeons' intraoperative cognitive workload.
    Dias RD, Ngo-Howard MC, Boskovski MT, Zenati MA, Yule SJ| | PubMed
  19. Robust identification of mosaic variants in congenital heart disease.
    Manheimer KB, Richter F, Edelmann LJ, D'Souza SL, Shi L, Shen Y, Homsy J, Boskovski MT, Tai AC, Gorham J, Yasso C, Goldmuntz E, Brueckner M, Lifton RP, Chung WK, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Gelb BD| | PubMed
  20. Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement versus aortic valve replacement through full sternotomy: the Brigham and Women's Hospital experience.
    Neely RC, Boskovski MT, Gosev I, Kaneko T, McGurk S, Leacche M, Cohn LH| | PubMed
  21. Acroparesthesia and carpal tunnel syndrome: a historical perspective.
    Boskovski MT, Thomson JG| | PubMed
  22. Carpal tunnel syndrome, syndrome of partial thenar atrophy, and W. Russell Brain: a historical perspective.
    Boskovski MT, Thomson JG| | PubMed
  23. Aneurysm of a saphenous vein aortocoronary graft.
    Boskovski MT, Gosev I, Bueno R, Steigner ML, Saboo S, Aranki SF| | PubMed
  24. The heterotaxy gene GALNT11 glycosylates Notch to orchestrate cilia type and laterality.
    Boskovski MT, Yuan S, Pedersen NB, Goth CK, Makova S, Clausen H, Brueckner M, Khokha MK| | PubMed
  25. Embryonic exposure to propylthiouracil disrupts left-right patterning in Xenopus embryos.
    van Veenendaal NR, Ulmer B, Boskovski MT, Fang X, Khokha MK, Wendler CC, Blum M, Rivkees SA| | PubMed
  26. Lymphangioma of the gallbladder in adults: review of the literature and a case report.
    Boskovski MT, Saad A, Israel GM, Salem RR| | PubMed
  27. Transmitral flow velocity-contour variation after premature ventricular contractions: a novel test of the load-independent index of diastolic filling.
    Boskovski MT, Shmuylovich L, Kovács SJ| | PubMed