MUSC Health Vascular Surgery at East Cooper Medical Pavilion

Adam Tanious, MD, MBA, MMSc is a faculty member of the MUSC Department of Surgery as an Associate Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery. Since arriving to MUSC he has served as the associate program director of the vascular residency program and currently is the Medical Director of Vascular-Dialysis Access at MUSC Charleston. Dr. Tanious' clinical interests include the treatment of patients with aortic, carotid, peripheral arterial, and venous disease in addition to patients with End Stage Renal Disease. He likewise has a particular interest in multidisciplinary collaboration for complex cases where vascular mobilization and/or reconstruction is anticipated. His research interests revolve around innovation in surgery as well as surgical education. Since Joining MUSC, Dr. Tanious has also earned his MBA and created/leads the Vascular Innovation Group efforts focused on developing new technologies in the field of vascular surgery. He joined MUSC after completing his Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency + 2 years of dedicated research at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he served as Chief Resident in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Prior to his training at MGH, he completed a Master of Medical Science in Clinical and Translational Research, and his first 3 clinical years of Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency + 1 year of dedicated research at the University of South Florida. He earned his medical degree from Michigan State University. He serves as a journal reviewer for the Journal of Vascular Surgery, Annals of Vascular Surgery and is a co-creator of the Vascular Education Video Library Consortium - a national, multi-institutional collaboration to create a centralized resource of subspecialty lectures and educational tools for vascular trainees. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, 30 presentations, and multiple published abstracts and book chapters. He holds 1 patent and has submitted provisional patents for 2 other devices he hopes to bring to market to help the vascular patient population.

Dr. Korepta is an associate professor of vascular surgery. She joins MUSC from Loyola University Chicago Medical Center and previously Brigham and Women's Hospital. She has a strong interest in women's health and the treatment of aortic disease, carotid disease, hemodialysis access, and lower extremity venous and peripheral artery disease. She introduced new, minimally invasive outpatient venous and arterial procedures to the office-based setting in both her practices in Chicago and Boston and worked to establish a regional vein center of excellence. She has expertise in arteriovenous access creation and helped to grow a multi-disciplinary, outpatient based hemodialysis access center. She is focused on expanding outpatient based procedures in the management of venous disease, hemodialysis access, and peripheral artery disease as well as to continue to deliver innovative inpatient vascular care to further establish the MUSC Heart and Vascular Center as the premier location within the state for the management of complex vascular problems. In 2005, she received her Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. She worked as a research assistant in a Cholera vaccine development lab at Harvard Medical School, while attending the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA, from 2005 to 2007. Dr. Korepta completed her M.D. in 2017 from Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, in Grand Rapids, MI, and returned to Harvard School of Public Health to complete a master's degree in Clinical Effectiveness before joining the staff of Brigham and Women's Hospital as a vascular surgeon in 2017. Her training has been extensive and broad within vascular surgery from world-renowned surgeons. As a native of South Carolina, she is excited to return and bring new and innovative techniques for the treatment of vascular conditions to the Charleston area.