Thomas S. Maldonado, MD, FACS, RVT

Thomas S Maldonado, M.D. is the Schwartz-Buckley Endowed Professor of Surgery in the Vascular Division at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York, NY. He serves as Director of the Venous Thromboembolic Center and the Aortic Center at NYU Langone Health. He is also Chief of Vascular Surgery at the Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital.

Dr. Maldonado received his undergraduate degree from Williams College where he studied English Literature went on to earn a Masters in Journalism at Boston University. He attended medical school at the New York University School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship in Vascular Surgery at the same institution. He did additional training at the Cleveland Clinic in advanced endovascular surgery before joining faculty of NYU in 2002.

He is well-recognized in the field and has been consistently named to US Top Doctor and New York’s Best Doctor list. He is well published in the field of vascular and endovascular surgery with over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 30 book chapters.  He is invited to lecture nationally and internationally and is the course director for Advanced Endovascular Surgery for Latin America (which he gives entirely in Spanish – his first language). He is also course director for the annual Venous Update Course at NYU. He is an educator, having trained over 40 graduating vascular surgery fellow and is a national board examiner for Vascular Surgery.  He is recipient of a number of awards, including the Theodore Barnett Memorial Prize, awarded by the graduating class at NYU School of Medicine.

He is committed to advancing his field and is the ultimate collaborator. He is principal investigator as well as National PI on a number of clinical trials for use of novel endovascular devices for treatment of aortic aneurysms, carotid surgeries, lower extremity stents to list a few. He especially enjoys multicenter research projects in particular, where he publishes on  ‘real world’ experiences of devices and as we know well, he leads our Tactile VA study which you will hear about today.

Dr. Maldonado is a leader in his field having served as the President of the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society, the and the New York Society for Vascular Surgery. He is a member of the American Surgical Society, the oldest and most exclusive Surgical Society in the country. He is a reviewer and on the editorial board of numerous journals and is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.