Nicholas Burris MD

Nicholas Burris, MD grew up in Baltimore and obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees from University of Maryland. He completed his Diagnostic Radiology residency, a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship and clinical fellowship in Cardiac & Pulmonary Imaging at University of California, San Francisco.

Prior to joining the UW Department of Radiology in 2025, Dr. Burris practiced at University of Michigan with a dual appointment in Radiology and Biomedical Engineering. At Michigan, he served as 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 research has examined the use of 4D Flow MRI to define hemodynamic factors that promote risk of complications in aortic dissection, and he is lead PI on a current NIH R01-funded prospective study on this topic. Additionally, he is lead inventor of an image analysis technique for 3D quantification of aortic growth, a technique called vascular deformation mapping (VDM), which has been developed with the support an NIH SBIR grant in collaboration with industry partners.