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Andrea T. Obi, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Dr. Andrea Obi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan. She holds degrees in Microbiology and Immunology as well as English Literature from the University of Michigan, and an M.D. from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. She completed general surgery residency in the Department of Surgery at The University of Michigan, during which time she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Vascular Biology in the Conrad Jobst Vascular Laboratories. She then completed an additional clinical fellowship in vascular surgery at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Obi’s laboratory focuses on dissecting molecular mechanisms involved in venous thrombus (VT) resolution. Her laboratory efforts currently are focused on understanding the endothelial epigentic response to viral infection, modulation of post thrombotic fibrosis by mtor inhibition and innate immune cell signaling in thrombus resolution. Her practices focuses largely on superficial venous disease and open deep vein procedures. She is co-director of the Venous Health Program, a multidisciplinary clinic that treats patients with rare congenital anomalies, venous thromboembolism, advanced chronic venous insufficiency, and pelvic congestion syndrome. She is co-director of the institutional Venous Thromboembolism Committee, aimed at implementing best practices to reduce hospital acquired VTE. On a national level she is the Research Council Chair for the American Venous Forum and serves on the writing group for the multi-society (SVS/AVF/AVLS) venous treatment guidelines. Among other distinctions she received the 2019 Vascular Cures Wylie Scholar Award and the 2020 SVS Foundation Mentored Research Career Development Award; her laboratory has been funded by the NIH since 2020.

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