Kenneth Ouriel

Kenneth Ouriel is an American vascular surgeon and medical researcher, born in 1956 in Rochester, New York. He studied biology and psychology at the University of Rochester, took his medical degree at the University of Chicago in 1981, and completed general surgery residency and a vascular surgery fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center in 1987. A National Institutes of Health grant supported his study of thrombosis, and in 1998 he published the results of a large multicenter randomized trial of clot dissolving therapy in the New England Journal of Medicine. He joined the Cleveland Clinic in 1998 as chief of vascular surgery and became its chief of surgery in 2003, writing three textbooks and more than 250 scientific articles with a focus on minimally invasive treatment of vascular disease. In 2007 he became chief executive officer of Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi, and in 2009 he became senior vice president and chief of international operations at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.