Dr. Tom Maldonado

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

Most recently, the team at NYU, led by Dr. Tom Maldonado, sponsored a training program to teach Latin American surgeons from Argentina to Mexico, about endovascular aortic repair, or EVAR. EVAR has quickly emerged as the standard of care in the United States for the treatment of abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms, two deadly, but treatable, vascular conditions. Unfortunately, many surgeons in Latin America are still using conventional, open surgical methods, which are both more invasive and riskier than EVAR. Dr. Maldonado will be spending 3 days with this group of physicians, providing hands-on training on EVAR and educating on how to use the latest device innovations, with the hope that these physicians will return home with the knowledge, experience and skills necessary to offer this alternative to their patients. Dr. Maldonado joins the program.

Dr. Tom Maldonado is the Assistant Professor of Surgery at NYU, Chief of Vascular Surgery at Bellevue Hospital in New York and course Director of NYU's Endovascular Training of Latin American Surgeons. He is a specialist in minimally invasive treatment of carotid stenosis, aneurysms, and varicose veins. Dr. Maldonado is well published in basic science and clinical literature and has won numerous awards from general surgery and vascular surgery national societies. He is also bilingual and speaks fluent Spanish.

Dr. Maldonado majored in English Literature at Williams College and received a masters degree in Journalism from Boston University. He graduated from New York University School of Medicine in 1995. During his general surgery residency, he spent two years in a basic science laboratory studying developmental biology. He completed a vascular surgery fellowship training at New York University in 2003 and went on to pursue an additional 6 months of training in complex endovascular procedures as well as carotid stenting at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Lenox Hill Hospital.

Dr. Derrick DeSilva

8 / 25 / 2009