Frank Veith
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| Occupation | Vascular surgeon |
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| Institutions | Cleveland Clinic New York University Medical Center |
Frank Veith is an American vascular surgeon, the first in the United States to perform minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery[1] (stent graft procedure) together with Drs. Michael L. Marin, Juan C. Parodi and Claudio J. Schonholz.[2]
Education
Veith graduated from Cornell University Medical School 1955 , completed his residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School 1956-63 and served as Captain, U.S. Army Medical Corps and Chief, Surgical Service, U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Carlson, Colorado 1960-62.
Career
Veith is Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH and New York University Medical Center NY, NY . Additionally, he occupies The William J. von Liebig Chair in Vascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
He is board certified by The American Board of Surgery, The American Board of Thoracic Surgery and holds a Certificate of Special Qualification in Vascular Surgery.. In 1993, he received the National Institutes of Health Vascular Disease Academic Award.
Veith has authored or coauthored more than 1,000 original articles and chapters in medical journals, particularly on limb-salvage surgery and more recently the field of endovascular grafting for traumatic, aneurysmal and occlusive arterial disease.
He is past chairman of the American Board of Vascular Surgery, past President of the regional Eastern Vascular Society and served as the 50th president of The Society for Vascular Surgery.