Tara Mastracci

Tara Mastracci

Complex Aortic Surgeon

Barts Health NHS Trust

London

Dr. Mastracci is a Canadian Vascular Surgeon currently working as a Complex Aortic Surgeon at Barts Heart Hospital, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, East London, United Kingdom. She works in both the departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiovascular Prevention, and leads both the Endovascular Aortic Service and Social Prescribing Programme for the East London Cardiovascular Prevention Group (ELoPE). She is an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London in the Department of Surgical and Interventional Sciences. She was born and raised in Fonthill, Ontario, Canada and she did her medical and surgical training at McMaster University in Canada. She has a fellowship in both General and Vascular Surgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. After training, she did an additional fellowship in Complex Aortic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where she remained as a Consultant Surgeon for 7 years, with an appointment as an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University. She moved to the United Kingdom in 2014, and has worked in London since that time.

Dr. Mastracci’s research interests cross two streams. She has long been interested in the treatment of complex aortic disease, and does clinical research focusing on outcomes after complex endovascular repair, and the imaging of diseases of the aorta. Most recently she has been interested in the clinical presentation of aortic dissection, and has worked to build a clinical system of remote monitoring to apply mobile digital technology to the treatment of this challenging disease, as well as the integration of fusion imaging in the intraoperative treatment of aortic diseases. Her second more recent area of study has been furthering the understanding of the role of social deprivation on the outcomes of cardiovascular disease, and is currently working to build, and study, a platform for social prescribing in Secondary Care.