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Media Inquiries: 434-924-5679 U.VA. HEALTH SYSTEM ANNOUNCES NEW HEAD OF VASCULAR SURGERY |
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Dr. Kenneth J. Cherry, Jr. has joined the University of Virginia Health System as the new head of the Division of Vascular Surgery. Cherry joins U.Va. from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he served as chairman of the division of vascular surgery and was a physician on staff for twenty-two years. A native of Richmond, Cherry earned his M.D. from the U.Va. School of Medicine in 1974. He also completed his general surgical residency at U.Va., including service as chief surgical resident. He then went on to train in vascular surgery at the University of California San Francisco. Cherry has been listed in The Best Doctors in America and has been honored regularly in the reference book America’s Top Doctors for his expertise in great vessel disease and aortic graft infection. Cherry is a past president of the Muller Surgical Society at U.Va. and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, among other professional memberships. He served on the editorial board of the Annals of Vascular Surgery and co-authored more than one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics relating to vascular surgery and aortic aneurysms. He is also the co-author of 41 textbook chapters on vascular surgery and diseases and conditions of the great vessels. Cherry will be handling vascular surgical consults and cases, plus endovascular procedures. He will also serve as head of the Vascular Clinic at U.Va., a multidisciplinary clinic with vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists on staff. February 4, 2004 |