Susana Rodrigues Vacas, MD, PhD
Not currently accepting new patients
Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Boston, MA
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.
Education & Training
- 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
Languages Spoken
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Medicaid ME
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Wellpoint
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Aetna
- WellSense
- Humana
- Tufts Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Multiplan
- Medicare ACO
- Cigna
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid NH
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- United Health Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Fallon Health
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Senior Whole Health
- Maine Community Health Options
- Coventry
- Beech Street
- Medicare
- TriCare