Peter H. Lin

Peter H. Lin is an American vascular surgeon and medical researcher whose work centres on minimally invasive endovascular treatment of vascular disease. Born in Taiwan, he earned a biology degree at the University of California, Riverside in 1988 and his medical degree at the Chicago Medical School in 1992, trained in general surgery in Chicago, and completed vascular and endovascular surgery fellowships at Emory University between 1998 and 2000. He joined the surgical faculty of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 2001, served as chief of vascular surgery at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center from 2001 to 2007, and led vascular surgery in Baylor's department of surgery from 2006 until 2015, when he moved to Los Angeles and became professor emeritus. His clinical interests include endovascular therapy for deep vein thrombosis, peripheral arterial disease and pulmonary embolism, and his experience helped support approval of thrombolytic therapy for acute pulmonary embolism. He has published more than 400 scholarly articles, written over 60 book chapters and edited three vascular textbooks.