Juan Carlos Parodi, M.D., has joined the faculty as professor of surgery and director of endovascular surgery in the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery and at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Parodi spent the past three years as a professor of surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Parodi is world-renowned for introducing minimally invasive techniques to the field of vascular surgery. In 1990 he became the first physician in the world to treat a patient using a technique he developed called endovascular repair to prevent an aortic aneurysm from rupturing. He has also developed a new technique for protecting the brain when stents need to be placed in carotid arteries that have a blockage. Parodi and a team from the Miller School will be traveling to ten different medical centers across the country to teach this technique.

Parodi has received several honors and awards, including the Jacobson Innovation Award from the American College of Surgery. He was named the first recipient of the Society for Vascular Surgery Medal for Innovation earlier this year.