Raul J Guzman, MD

Dr. Guzman is the Donald Guthrie Professor of Vascular Surgery at Yale School of Medicine and Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs in the School's Department of Surgery. Sincer 2019, he has been Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is also Surgeon-in-Chief of Vascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Center for the Yale New Haven Health System. He came to Yale from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. Prior to moving to Boston, he spent the early portion of his career at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee where he served for several years as Chief of Vascular Surgery at the Nashville VA Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. After completing his residency in general surgery, he undertook research training in the Cardiology Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD and subsequently completed a fellowship in vascular surgery at Stanford University Hospital. He recently completed his term as a permanent member of the Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences Study Section of the NIH. His clinical interests relate to patients with diabetic vascular disease. His research focuses on the role of arterial calcification in lower extremity ischemia.