Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Heart and Vascular Center provides expert care for patients with a range of vascular conditions, from the more common to the rare and complex.
Our board certified surgeons collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of specialists, all experts in vascular disease, to provide you with individualized, innovative and proven treatment options. We have particular expertise in endovascular techniques—minimally invasive approaches that use tiny incisions and offer a quicker recovery.
We diagnose and treat a large volume of patients with peripheral vascular disease, carotid artery disease, aneurysms and more. This extensive surgical experience translates to better outcomes for our patients. Under the leadership of, Michael Belkin, MD, our surgeons are making great strides in improving vascular health: conducting groundbreaking research and clinical trials, developing exciting new surgical methods and training the next generation of surgeons through our fellowship program.
Why the BWH Heart & Vascular Center for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery?
- The Heart & Vascular Center is an international referral site, admitting the most complex patients from the United States and abroad.
- Services in vascular surgery, cardiac surgery, vascular medicine and radiology are integrated at the Heart & Vascular Center’s state-of-the-art Shapiro Cardiovascular Center.
- Our board certified surgeons serve on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and have advanced training and clinical experience in vascular and endovascular surgery.
- The vascular and endovascular surgeons at the Heart & Vascular Center are published authors and valued teachers.
- Our surgeons are active researchers whose clinical trials lead to novel and better ways of preventing, diagnosing and treating vascular disease.
- The Homans Vascular Fellowship, a two-year, ACGME-accredited fellowship, prepares surgeons for careers in vascular and endovascular academics and surgery.
- Boston Magazine named Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Michael Belkin, MD, and Co-Director Endovascular Vascular Surgery Matt Menard, MD among Boston’s top doctors in vascular surgery.
- The Shapiro Cardiovascular Center in the Heart & Vascular Center has private inpatient rooms with pull-out beds for overnight guests. For outpatient visits, it offers the convenience of many specialties in one location, making scheduling same day appointments easy.
- The Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory, one of a select number of laboratories in the United States accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories, provides quality ultrasound testing for vascular disease.
- Our hybrid operating room enables multiple specialists to perform imaging, surgical and non-surgical procedures simultaneously, minimizing trauma for patients.
- Transfusion-free vascular surgery meets patient health concerns and religious needs. Incisions with dissolvable sutures reduce wound care after surgery.
- Patients with medical issues concurrent to vascular disease have easy access to BWH’s medical center across the street.
- Keith Ozaki, MD, led an acclaimed research study revealing that reducing fat consumption prior to surgery helps with recovery.
