2025 PVD Mid-Career Award and Lecturer – Andrea T. Obi, MD

Andrea T. Obi, MD

University of Michigan Health
Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dr. Andrea Obi is an associate professor in the department of surgery at the University of Michigan and co-director of the Venous Health Program. The program is a multidisciplinary clinic that treats patients with rare congenital anomalies, venous thromboembolism, advanced chronic venous insufficiency and pelvic congestion syndrome.

Obi’s laboratory focuses on dissecting molecular mechanisms involved in immunothrombosis and venous thrombus resolution. After the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, her laboratory focused on the intersection of epigenetic-based immune and endothelial cell changes that control gene expression and cell phenotype. Her laboratory also studies the effect of innate immune receptor signaling in fibrinolysis. The primary goal is to identify new, targeted therapies that can reduce vascular inflammation leading to fibrosis and reduce thrombotic risk related to cellular dysregulation.

Obi holds degrees in microbiology and immunology as well as English literature from the University of Michigan, and an MD from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. She completed a general surgery residency at the University of Michigan and at the same time a postdoctoral fellowship in vascular biology in the university’s Conrad Jobst Vascular Research Laboratories. She also completed a clinical fellowship in vascular surgery at Michigan.

On a national level, Obi serves as the Past Chair of the American Venous Forum’s Research Committee. Among other distinctions she received the 2019 Vascular Cures Wylie Scholar Award and the 2021 SVS Foundation Mentored Research Career Development Award.