Positions

Faculty

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine

Addresses

The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine (Lab)

6770 Bertner Avenue
Room O-511, MC1-283
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 355-7202
Ana.Segura@bcm.edu

Education

MD from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Bogotá, Colombia

MPH from Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

New Orleans, LA

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Bogotá, Colombia

Anatomic Pathology

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Gastrointestinal Pathology

Professional Statement

Ana Maria Segura, M.D., MPH graduated from Universidad Javeriana Medical School, Bogota, Colombia. She completed post-graduate training in Surgical Pathology at the same institution and fellowships in Cytopathology (Harvard Medical School), Gastrointestinal Pathology (Baylor College of Medicine), Cardiovascular Pathology (Texas Heart Institute) and a master’s degree in public health (Tulane University). She worked as an Associate Research Investigator in Cardiovascular Pathology at Texas Heart institute for 17 years and now works as Senior Faculty in the department of Surgery, The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine.

Her main areas of interest are heart failure, ventricular remodeling, transplantation, ventricular assist devices, aortic pathology and electrophysiology. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and has been presented at multiple national and international conferences.

Selected Publications

• Buja L.M, Zhao B, Segura A, Lelenwa L, McDonald M, Michaud K "Cardiovascular pathology: guide to practice and training in Cardiovascular Pathology." ;
• Buja LM, Ottaviani G, Ilic M, Zhao B, Lelenwa LC, Segura AM, Bai Y, Chen A, Akkanti B, Hussain R, Nathan S, Petrovic M, Radovancevic R, Gregoric ID, Kar B "Clinicopathological Manifestations of Myocarditis in a Heart Failure Population." Cardiovasc Pathol.;
• Zhang Y, Beketaev I, Segura AM, Yu W, Xi Y, Chang J, Ma Y, Wang J "Contribution of Increased Expression of Yin Yang 2 to Development of Cardiomyopathy." Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences.;
• Segura AM, Frazier OH, Buja LM "Fibrosis and heart failure." Heart Fail Reviews.;