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Pictured: Barry T. Katzen, M.D., medical director of Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, with wife Judi Katzen, accepts the TCT Career Achievement Award from Martin Leon, M.D., chairman emeritus of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.
Barry T. Katzen, M.D., founder and medical director of Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, has received the prestigious Career Achievement Award of the 2007 Transcatheter Therapeutics Conference (TCT) in Washington, D.C., one of the most important cardiovascular meetings in the world.
An interventional radiologist, Dr. Katzen, 61, is one of only a few non-cardiologists to receive the Career Achievement Award since its inception in 1994. He was recognized for his world leadership in endovascular medicine, in which physicians treat patients without surgery, using catheter procedures to open blocked arteries and patch dangerous bulges in vessels called aneurysms.
Dr. Katzen was honored for his pioneering development of angioplasty for vessels outside the heart. Dr. Katzen performed the first “peripheral” angioplasty in the United States in 1978 by using a balloon mounted on a catheter to open a blocked artery.
Dr. Katzen also was honored for developing a multidisciplinary approach to treating the heart and blood vessels throughout the body as one system. He was recognized for training thousands of other physicians all over the world in less-invasive, catheter-based therapies by pioneering televised “live-case” demonstrations.
Presenting the award at a ceremony in late October, Martin Leon, M.D., chairman emeritus of the foundation that sponsors TCT, lauded Dr. Katzen for his distinguished clinical skills and his leadership as an educator, academician and researcher.
“I look forward to maximizing the value of this award as a platform for continuing to advance endovascular medicine,” Dr. Katzen said.
Last year, Dr. Katzen became the first American to receive the prestigious Gold Medal from the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE).
Dr. Katzen helped popularize the use of clot-busting drugs for vascular disease. More recently, he has been on the forefront of developing carotid artery stents and stent-grafts to repair aortic and thoracic aneurysms. In 2005 Dr. Katzen led a team of doctors who used stents to repair leg aneurysms in Vice President Dick Cheney.
Dr. Katzen graduated from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and completed his residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He lives in Coral Gables with his wife, Judi.
Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute is a part of Baptist Health South Florida, the largest faith-based, not-for-profit healthcare organization in the region. The Institute was established at Baptist Hospital, 8900 North Kendall Drive, in 1987 under Dr. Katzen’s leadership.
In addition to the Institute, Baptist Health also includes Baptist Hospital, Baptist Children’s Hospital, South Miami Hospital, Doctors Hospital, Homestead Hospital, Mariners Hospital in the Upper Keys and Baptist Outpatient Services.
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