Edith Tzeng, MD is the UPMC Chair and Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and Chief of Vascular Surgery at the VA Medical Center, Pittsburgh. She is focused on the problems of blood vessels healing after injury, bypass, or angioplasty and translational potential of nitric oxide and carbon monoxide for vascular healing. She received her medical degree from the University of Chicago, The Pritzker School Of Medicine and performed her surgery residency and vascular fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2001 she was awarded Vascular Cures’ Wylie Scholar in Academic Vascular Surgery research grant. Dr. Tzeng has a long history in research mentorship and has been the Program Director of the Vascular Surgery Research T32 Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh for the past 15 years.