Dr. Nicholas Burris

Biography

Nicholas Burris, MD grew up in Baltimore and obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Maryland. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency, a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship, and a clinical fellowship in Cardiac & Pulmonary Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. Before joining the University of Wisconsin Department of Radiology in 2025, Dr. Burris practiced at the University of Michigan with a dual appointment in the Radiology and Biomedical Engineering departments. While at Michigan, he served as the associate director of the multi-disciplinary aortic program (MI-AORTA) and director of structural heart imaging. Dr. Burris’s research is focused on a variety of techniques for advanced aortic imaging. His investigations have examined the use of 4D Flow MRI to define hemodynamic factors that promote the risk of complications in aortic dissection, and he is the lead principal investigator on a current NIH R01-funded prospective study on this topic. Additionally, he is the lead inventor of an image analysis technique for 3D quantification of aortic growth, known as vascular deformation mapping (VDM), which was developed with support from an NIH SBIR grant in collaboration with industry partners.

Research Interests