Founder and Medical Director of the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, USA
Founder and Medical Director of the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, USA
Barry T. Katzen is the founder and chief medical executive of the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, a part of Baptist Health South Florida. He is Chairman, Department of Interventional Radiology and professor of radiology and surgery, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University; and holder of similar appointments at University of Miami, School of Medicine and University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine. Since its founding in 1987 Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, under Dr. Katzen’s leadership, has served as a national model of success in multidisciplinary cooperation, and is one of the nation’s leading cardiac and vascular institutions.
Dr. Katzen graduated from the University Of Miami, School of Medicine in 1970. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital, residency in diagnostic radiology at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center and awarded a fellowship in cardiovascular radiology at St. Vincent’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Rome.
He established the interventional radiology program, cardiac catheterization laboratory and noninvasive vascular laboratory at Alexandria Hospital in Virginia in 1976, where he pioneered the use of sophisticated video and audio technology to enhance the process of education for practitioners. He is credited with being the first to use “live patient demonstrations” in the United States, which became the benchmark for procedural education in endovascular therapy and many other procedural areas of medicine. As Chief Medical Executive of Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, he has transformed the Institute into a system-wide enterprise and service line throughout Baptist Health South Florida.
Dr. Katzen has had a longstanding interest in clinical research and serving as national site principal investigator for many clinical trials in the study of aneurysms, carotid artery disease, and peripheral vascular disease and has been involved in the development of numerous devices for less invasive vascular therapy. He is one of the pioneers of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and peripheral thrombolysis for less invasive treatment of vascular disease and was part of the investigative team that lead to the approval of the first intravascular stent.
He is one of the founders of interventional radiology as a specialty of medicine, performing the first renal angioplasty in the United States. He is a past President of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) as well as the Peripheral Vascular Section of the American Heart Association.
Dr. Katzen has authored/co-authored four textbooks, numerous book chapters and more than 190 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals. Dr. Katzen is the founding editor of Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology and is currently a Chief Medical Editor of Endovascular Today. He has presented lectures and performed live cases throughout the world. Dr. Katzen with his colleagues created the Endovascular Forum, one of the first interactive websites for physicians about circulatory disease.
Dr. Katzen has received numerous awards, including: the Society of Interventional Radiology’s (SIR) Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement; the Gold Medal of the University of Miami Alumni Association and entered into the “Hall of Fame” at the UM Medical School, only the fourth such honoree in medical school history at that time. He was the first American to receive the annual Gold Medal award from the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) for his distinguished achievements in the field of interventional radiology, both in the United States and worldwide. In 2007 he received the Career Achievement Award at the Transcatheter Therapeutics Conference(TCT) for his worldwide leadership in endovascular medicine and pioneering live case education in the United States; Vascular Disease Foundation’s Julius H. Jacobson II MD Award for Physician Excellence; Cor Vitae Heart Award and the AHA Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2007 the Cook Family established the “Barry T. Katzen Medical Directorship” at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. He has been awarded Honorary Memberships in the Chinese Society of Interventional Radiology and the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (APSCIVR) and now the Dreilaendertagung, the German Austrian and Swiss Societies of Vascular Surgery.