Cynthia Keene Shortell MD

Dr. Cynthia Shortell earned her AB from Dartmouth College and her MD from Cornell University. She was invited to join the University of Rochester (URMC)/Strong Memorial Hospital faculty following her fellowship where she remained until 2005. At that time she joined the faculty at Duke University Medical Center. Since then she has served as Professor and Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery as well as Associate Professor of Radiology, past Program Director of the Vascular Fellowship, and serves as Chief of Staff for the Department of Surgery. Her major areas of interest are open and endovascular management of aortic disease, cerebrovascular disease, vascular malformations, and venous disease. Her research interests include diagnosis and management of vascular malformations, open and endovascular aneurysm repair, cerebrovascular disease outcomes research, and venous disease.