Dr. Elliot Chaikof | Chief, Vascular Surgery Division

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Elliot L. Chaikof, MD, PhD

Academic Appointments
	Professor and John E. Skandalakis Chair of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

	Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Emory University

Secondary Appointments
	Professor (Adjunct), School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

	Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology

	Faculty Member, Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

Affiliations
	Emory University Hospital
	The Emory Clinic
	Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston

Education
	MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Class of 1982

	PhD, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989

	Residency in General Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 1982-1985, 1989-1991

	Residency in Vascular Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, completed 1992

Honors and Awards
	2008 John Mannick Visiting Professor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School

	American Board of Surgery, Associate Examiner, Vascular Surgery, 2004, 2008

	Atlanta's Top Doctors, Atlanta Magazine, 2006-2008

	Best Doctors in America, Castle Connolly Guide, 2005-2008

	2003 Harvard-Longwood Visiting Professor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School

	2002 Pacific Vascular Research Foundation Visiting Professor in Surgery, UC-San Francisco

	Woodruff Fund Clinical Teaching Award in Surgery, Emory University, 2002

	Dean's Clinical Investigator, Emory University, 2000-2003

	E. J. Wylie Traveling Fellowship awarded for academic excellence in clinical and basic research, Society for Vascular Surgery, 1996-1997

	Faculty Fellowship Award, American College of Surgeons, 1994-1996

	Clinician-Scientist Award, American Heart Association, 1994-1999

	Young Investigator Award, American Heart Association, 1993

	Sigma Xi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988

	E. D. Churchill Surgical Research Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1986-1987

	Alpha Omega Alpha, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1982

	C. V. Mosby Scholarship Award, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1982

	Henry Strong Denison Research Scholar, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1981

	Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins University, 1979

	Ann Shepard Zoology Award, University College, University of Toronto, 1977

	Ann Shepard Biology Award, University College, University of Toronto, 1976

Current Editorial Boards
	Annals of Vascular Surgery
	Current Cardiology Reviews
	Vascular
	The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal
	The Open Chemical and Biomedical Methods Journal
	The Open Material Science Journal
	The Open Transplantation Journal
	Transplants, Research and Risk Management

Current Organizational Memberships
	American College of Surgeons, Fellow

	American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow

	American Society for Clinical Investigation

	Southern Surgical Association

	American Surgical Association

	Southern Association for Vascular Surgery

	Society of University Surgeons

	International Society of Applied Cardiovascular Biology, President-Elect

	Society for Vascular Surgery: Nominating Committee, Advisory Committee to the President

	American Vascular Association

	Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery

	Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society

	Association for Academic Surgery

	Georgia Surgical Society

	Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery

	Atlanta Vascular Society, President-Elect

Clinical Interests
	Endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms
	Carotid artery, renal artery and peripheral vascular arterial disease
	Endovascular surgery
	Peripheral vascular disease
	Venous diseases

Research Interests
	Basic Science: The development of an advance generation of materials, devices and pharmacotherapeutics based upon the principles of biomimetics, molecular engineering and nanofabrication technologies for the treatment of vascular disease. The ultimate goal is to provide component building blocks for enabling advances in cell-based therapies, artificial organs and engineered living tissues, thereby contributing to the evolving field of regenerative therapies for vascular disease.

	Clinical Research: Dr. Chaikof has been the Emory PI for over 30 clinical trial protocols directed at studies of endovascular therapies for treatment of aortic aneurysms, carotid disease and peripheral arterial disease as well as novel biologics, gene therapy and tissue engineered products for the cure of venous and arterial disease.

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
	1992