Susana Rodrigues Vacas, MD, PhD
Critical Care Medicine
Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Adults
- Geriatrics
Languages
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- English
Gender
FemaleAbout Susana Rodrigues Vacas
Susana Vacas, MD, PhD, is a neuroanesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco, where her research focused on the underlying mechanisms and risk factors of perioperative neurocognitive disorders. Dr. Vacas seeks to improve perioperative brain health and overall patient outcomes after surgery by blocking and/or alleviating exacerbated inflammation and brain lesions. Her work deploys emerging technologies to improve patient outcomes, whether through innovative benchwork techniques, the creation of molecular targets, extensive cognitive assessment models, or new MRI tools. She takes great pride in teaching and mentoring residents, research fellows and medical students throughout the world.
Locations
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114
- Get Directions
- phone: 617-726-2000
Expertise
Education
- Residency: Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Hospital Santa Maria, EPE, Serviço de Anestesiologia, Anesthesia, 2015
- Fellowship: University of California San Francisco, Non-clinical - Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, 2015
- Internship: Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Ocidental, Medicine and Surgery, 2006
- Medical Education: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2005
Insurance
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense