Vascular Surgery Faculty

Thomas Maldonado, M.D.
Chief of Vascular Surgery, Bellevue Hospital. Course Director of NYU's Endovascular Training of Latin American Surgeons. Specialist in minimally invasive treatment of carotid stenosis, aneurysms, and varicose veins. Spanish-speaking.

Experience
Dr. Thomas Maldonado is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at NYU specializing in vascular and endovascular surgery and Chief of Vascular Surgery at Bellevue Hospital. He is the course director for the NYU Endovascular Surgery Training Symposium attended monthly by Latin American vascular surgeons.

Dr. Maldonado has clinical interests in endovascular surgery, including carotid and abdominal aortic endograft stent procedures, and in minimally invasive treatment of 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.

Dr. Maldonado is bilingual and speaks fluent Spanish.

Education
Dr. Thomas 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.