Marlene Grenon, M.D.

Vascular surgeon

Dr. Marlene Grenon is a vascular surgeon at the UCSF Heart and Vascular Center who treats patients with vascular conditions such as cardiovascular disease and peripheral artery disease.

Grenon earned a medical degree at McGill Medical School in Montreal, Canada and a master's degree in the Scholars in Clinical Science Program at Harvard Medical School. She completed a fellowship in cardiovascular space medicine and endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. She then completed training in cardiac surgery at McGill University, vascular surgery at the University of British Columbia in 2009, and endovascular surgery at the Arizona Heart Institute. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and maintains a certificate of specialist in cardiac and vascular surgery from the Royal College. She is an assistant professor of surgery at UCSF.

Clinics

Conditions & Treatments

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Education

McGill Medical School, Montreal, Canada 2000

Residencies

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canda, Cardiac Surgery 2002
McGill University, Cardiac Surgery 2007

Fellowships

University of British Columbia , Vascular Surgery 2009
Arizona Heart Institute, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 2010

Selected Research and Publications

1. Grenon SM, Jeanne M, Aguado-Zuniga J, Conte MS, Hughes-Fulford M. Effects of Gravitational Mechanical Unloading in Endothelial Cells: Association between Caveolins, Inflammation and Adhesion Molecules. Sci Rep. 2013 Mar 20; 3:1494.
2. Grenon SM, Saary J, Gray G, Vanderploeg JM, Hughes-Fulford M. Can I take a space flight? Considerations for doctors. BMJ. 2012; 345:e8124.
3. S. Marlene Grenon, Chad Ball, Joan Saary and Andy W. Kirkpatrick. Surgery in Space. Editors J Wong and J Pelton. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-3-659-26581-5. 2012.
4. Grenon SM, Cohen BE. J Am Heart Assoc. (published online August 30th 2012). In response to: "Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations may explain the link between depression and peripheral artery disease". 2012.
5. Grenon SM, Hiramoto J, Smolderen KG, Vittinghoff E, Whooley MA, Cohen BE. Association between depression and peripheral artery disease: insights from the heart and soul study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2012 Aug; 1(4):e002667.
6. Drudi L, Ball C, Kirkpatrick AW, Saary J, Grenon SM. Surgery in space: Where are we at now? Acta Astronautica. 2012; 79:61-66.
7. Reilly LM, Rapp JH, Grenon SM, Hiramoto JS, Sobel J, Chuter TA. Efficacy and durability of endovascular thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair using the caudally directed cuff technique. J Vasc Surg. 2012 Jul; 56(1):53-63; discussion 63-4.
8. Grenon SM, Aguado-Zuniga J, Hatton JP, Owens CD, Conte MS, Hughes-Fulford M. Effects of fatty acids on endothelial cells: inflammation and monocyte adhesion. J Surg Res. 2012 Sep; 177(1):e35-43.
9. Grenon SM, Hughes-Fulford M, Rapp J, Conte MS. Polyunsaturated fatty acids and peripheral artery disease. Vasc Med. 2012 Feb; 17(1):51-63.
10. Grenon SM, Saary J. Challenges in aerospace medicine education. Aviat Space Environ Med. 2011 Nov; 82(11):1071-2.
11. Grenon SM, Reid JD, Clement J. A late complication of migration after aortic endografting: injury to the superior mesenteric artery. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2011 Jul; 22(7):1055-7.
12. Grenon SM, Reilly LM, Ramaiah VG. Technical endovascular highlights for crossing the difficult aortic bifurcation. J Vasc Surg. 2011 Sep; 54(3):893-6.
13. Grenon SM, Conte MS. Aspirin prophylaxis (100 mg daily) does not improve cardiovascular outcomes compared to placebo in asymptomatic individuals with incidental low-ankle brachial index. Evid Based Med. 2010 Aug; 15(4):106-8.
14. Kirkpatrick AW, Keaney MA, Bentz K, Groleau M, Tyssen M, Keyte J, Ball CG, Campbell MR, Grenon SM, McBeth P, Broderick TJ. . The use of the National Research Council of Canada's Falcon 20 research aircraft as a terrestrial analogue space environment (TASE) for space surgery research: Challenges and suggested solutions. Planetary and Space Science 58, 717-723,. 2010.
15. Grenon SM, Gagnon J, Hsiang Y, Sidhu R, Taylor D, Clement J, Chen J. Occlusion of the common and internal iliac arteries for aortoiliac aneurysm repair: experience with the Amplatzer vascular plug. Can J Surg. 2009 Dec; 52(6):E276-80.
16. Grenon SM, Gagnon J, Hsiang Y. Video in clinical medicine. Ankle-brachial index for assessment of peripheral arterial disease. N Engl J Med. 2009 Nov 5; 361(19):e40.
17. Grenon SM, Gagnon J, Hsiang YN, Chen JC. Canadian experience with percutaneous endovascular aneurysm repair: short-term outcomes. Can J Surg. 2009 Oct; 52(5):E156-60.
18. Grenon SM, Mateus J, Hsiang Y, Sidhu R, Young L, Gagnon J. Use of short-radius centrifugation to augment ankle-brachial indices. J Investig Med. 2009 Jun; 57(5):640-4.
19. MacDonald S, Cheung A, Sidhu R, Rheaume P, Grenon SM, Clement J. Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair via the left ventricular apex of a beating heart. J Vasc Surg. 2009 Mar; 49(3):759-62.
20. Grenon SM, MacDonald S, Sidhu RS, Reid JD, Cheung A, Hsiang Y, Clement J. Successful ventricular transapical thoracic endovascular graft deployment in a pig model. J Vasc Surg. 2008 Nov; 48(5):1301-5.

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