University of California San Francisco

Gomez Casarez Axel
Axel Gomez Casarez, MD

Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

    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