Jason N. MacTaggart, MD, FACS

Professor, UNMC Department of Surgery
Division of Vascular Surgery

Dr. MacTaggart is a vascular surgeon-scientist with a strong interest in employing new methods and technologies to treat arterial injury and disease. His clinical background includes extensive training and experience in both classical open vascular surgery and advanced minimally invasive endovascular surgery. His academic vascular surgery practice includes many patients suffering from a wide array of traumatic and degenerative cardiovascular diseases, but he's particularly interested in treating those patients with aortic and lower extremity arterial diseases.

His laboratory studies arteries from different parts of the body and they invent new devices and techniques for vascular repair. Their basic science work focuses on the architecture and function of the largest human artery, the aorta, and the smaller peripheral arteries that feed the legs and feet. The lab measures and models blood flow and different mechanical forces to help predict how these arteries interact with repair devices like stents, stent grafts and bypass grafts.

Dr. MacTaggart's research is, or has been supported by the NIH, Department of Defense, private industry and philanthropy. Through his clinical, research and education work he aims to provide ever increasing precision and personalization to the care of patients with life and limb threatening cardiovascular diseases.