Herbert (Chaim) Dardik (May 17, 1935 – May 11, 2020) was a
vascular surgeon
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who served as the chief of vascular surgery at
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
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History
It was incorporated in 1888 as a "non-profit, non-sectarian voluntary health ...
in Englewood, New Jersey, and founded that institution's first vascular surgery fellowship program in 1978.Vascular Specialist, Bryan Kay, 15th May 2020 /ref> North Jersey, Melanie Anzidei, May 14, 2020 /ref> Dardik made many developments in vascular surgery, including the first tissue-engineered bypass graft used to prevent gangrene and save lower limbs.New York Times, Obituaries, May 14, 2020. /ref> In 2017 he earned the
Society for Vascular Surgery
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is the major national academic society for vascular surgery in the United States. Its mission includes education, research, career development and advocacy. The SVS is the national advocate for more than 6,00 ...
's Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the profession.Society for Vascular Surgery, June 21, 2017. /ref>
Medical career
Dardik was born on May 17, 1935Society for Dignity Memorial /ref> to Russian immigrantsThe Jewish Link, February 1, 2018 /ref> in
Long Branch, New Jersey
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.New York Magazine, Mar 18, 1991, pg. 37 After receiving his medical degree from the
New York University School of Medicine
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, Dardik completed his medical residency in general surgery at the
Montefiore Medical Center
Montefiore Medical Center is a premier academic medical center and the primary teaching hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York City. Its main campus, the Henry and Lucy Moses Division, is located in the Norwoo ...
.US News, Health Section /ref> Following residency, Dardik specialized in the field of vascular surgery. In the 1970s, Dardik pioneered the use of umbilical veins as a source of graft tissue for bypass surgeries along with his brother Irving Dardik.Staff, H; Ibrahim, IM; Baier, R; Sprayregen, S; Levy, M; Dardik, II (December 1976). "AMA News". JAMA. 236 (25): 2859–2862. doi:10.1001/jama.1976.03270260015018. .
Dardik was an integral part in the development of several medical organizations dedicated to furthering medical research and education. He was a founding member of the Eastern Vascular Society and the Vascular Society of New Jersey, and helped to nationalize the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS).Englewood Health, "Dr. Herbert Dardik Receives Lifetime Achievement Award" /ref> In 1987, he started the regular publication of the SCVS newsletter, a relatively new phenomenon among vascular societies at the time.SCVS History /ref> He was also the director and founding member of the bloodless medicine and surgery program. Additionally, he conducted his own clinical research studying lower extremity bypass techniques, thrombolytics, and small vessel bypass indications and outcomes, among other subjects.
After eight years in
Teaneck, New Jersey
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Jewish Standard
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'', May 28, 2020. Accessed July 18, 2020. "By the time he talked about Dr. Herbert Dardik of Tenafly, enough time had passed for Warren Geller to have assimilated the fact of Dr. Dardik’s death.... In 1968, the Dardik family moved to Teaneck, and in 1976 they moved to Tenafly." Dardik died of natural causes on May 11, 2020, at the age of 84.
Honors
*Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Vascular Surgery, 2017.
*Fellow of the
American College of Surgeons
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See also
*American College of Physicians
The American College o ...
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*Inducted as a Member of the American College of Surgeons' Academy of Master Surgeon Educators in 2019.
*Recipient of the Hektoen Gold Medal from the American Medical Association in 1976 for work on developing the umbilical vein graftVascular Specialist, May 30, 2017 /ref>
Selected publications
*"Hybrid Repair of an Intrathoracic Bilobed Subclavian Artery Aneurysm", ''Ann. Vasc. Surg.'', 2019Ann. Vasc. Surg. 2019 Aug;59:312.e11-312.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2018.12.106. Epub 2019 Apr 19. /ref>
*"Aberrant Splenic Artery Complicated by Aneurysm During Pregnancy", ''J. Vasc. Surg. Cases Innov. Tech.'', 2018.J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech. 2018 Apr 27;4(2):119-121. doi: 10.1016/j.jvscit.2018.01.004. eCollection 2018 Jun. /ref>
*"Atypical Infrarenal Aortic Coarctation", ''J. Vasc. Surg. Cases Innov. Tech'', 2017.J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech. 2017 May 24;3(2):96-97. doi: 10.1016/j.jvscit.2017.01.001. eCollection 2017 Jun. /ref>
*"Carotid Axillary Artery Bypass: An Option Following Failed Open and Percutaneous Procedures", ''Vascular'', 2014.Vascular. 2014 Jun;22(3):198-201. doi: 10.1177/1708538113478759. /ref>
*"Autologous Platelet-Rich Fibrin Matrix As Cell Therapy in the Healing of Chronic Lower-Extremity Ulcers" ''Wound Repair Regen.'', 2008.Wound Repair Regen. Nov-Dec 2008;16(6):749-56. /ref>
*"Femoral Popliteal Bypass Employing Modified Human Umbilical Cord Vein: An Assessment of Early Clinical Results.", ''Cardiovasc Dis.'', 1976.Cardiovasc Dis. 1976;3(3):314-319. /ref>