University of California San Francisco

Axel Gomez Casarez
Axel Gomez Casarez, MD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

[email protected]

Biography

Axel Gomez Casarez, M.D. is currently a general surgery resident with the UCSF Department of Surgery. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Arizona double majoring in Biochemistry and Mathematics. He then received a medical degree from the UCSF School of Medicine.

Awards & Honors

Award Conferred By Date
Inquiry Dissemination & Travel award, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine 2019
Resource Allocation Program for Trainees (RAPtr) Summer Grant University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine 2018

Education

Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine M.D. Medicine 05/2021
University of Arizona B.S. Biochemistry and Mathematics 05/2017

Clinical Interests

Cardiothoracic surgery

Program Affiliations

UCSF School of Medicine

Axel Gomez, BS, Zhongjie Wang, PhD, Yue Xuan, PhD, Andrew D. Wisneski, MD, Michael D. Hope, MD, Julius M. Guccione, PhD, Liang Ge, PhD, and Elaine E. Tseng, MD. Wall Stress Distribution in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Associated Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms. Presented at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, 55th Annual Meeting, January 28, 2019, San Diego, CA.

Research Interests

Cardiac biomechanics

Ascending aortic thoracic aneurysms

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 4
  1. Association of diameter and wall stresses of tricuspid aortic valve ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms.
    Gomez A, Wang Z, Xuan Y, Hope MD, Saloner DA, Guccione JM, Ge L, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  2. Contemporary Management of Hepatic Cyst Disease: Techniques and Outcomes at a Tertiary Hepatobiliary Center.
    Gomez A, Wisneski AD, Luu HY, Hirose K, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Freise CE, Nakakura EK, Corvera CU| | PubMed
  3. Wall Stress Distribution in Bicuspid Aortic Valve-Associated Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms.
    Gomez A, Wang Z, Xuan Y, Wisneski AD, Hope MD, Saloner DA, Guccione JM, Ge L, Tseng EE| | PubMed
  4. Directional inconsistency between Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) time to progression and response speed and depth.
    Johnson K, Gomez A, Burton J, White D, Chakravarty A, Schmid A, Bottino D| | PubMed