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    Frank Caputo, MD

    Vascular surgery aortic director
    Cleveland clinic
    Lerner college of medicine
    Brecksville, Ohio

    Francis J. Caputo, MD, is the Vascular Surgery Director of the Aorta Center, Program Director of the Vascular Surgery Training Programs and staff vascular surgeon in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute. He is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He sees patients at Cleveland Clinic Main Campus.

    Special Interests: Complex open and endovascular repair of thoracic, thoracoabdominal and abdominal aortic aneurysms, management of thoracic dissection, endovascular and open repair of failed endografts, carotid artery disease, peripheral arterial disease, connective tissue disorders, thoracic outlet syndrome

    Number of Patients Treated: Dr. Caputo performs approximately 300 vascular (blood vessel) procedures a year.

    Education and Training: Dr. Caputo earned his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey, Newark, NJ, where he also served his surgical residency and two years as a National Institutes of Health research fellow. He completed his fellowship in vascular surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. where he served as administrative fellow. He joined the Cleveland Clinic medical staff in 2018.

    Research, Publications and Speaking: Dr. Caputo has authored or co-authored nearly three dozen papers in leading medical and surgical journals and has contributed chapters to four medical textbooks. He also has presented papers and posters at international and national medical meetings, including the Society for Vascular Surgery and the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery annual meetings.

    He is the national PI of two trials investigating endovascular repair of complex aneurysms as well as non-radiation based imaging for aortic repair. His research interests included clinical outcomes in vascular surgery particularly the role of regionalized care.

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