Sunita D. Srivastava, MD, FACS is a vascular surgeon in the Cleveland Clinic Department of Vascular Surgery. She is board-certified in general and vascular surgery, specializing in the open surgical and endovascular approaches to arterial and venous diseases, aortic aneurysm disease, carotid artery disease and renal artery occlusive disease.
Dr. Srivasta received an undergraduate degree, with honors, from New York University. She received her medical degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center at Syracuse. She did her internship and residency in general surgery at SUNY Health Sciences Center, becoming Chief Resident in General Surgery and earning the General Surgery Resident Teaching Award. She then received fellowships in vascular surgery and interventional radiology from the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. Dr. Srivastava then went on to become an Endovascular Fellow in the Department of Roentgen at Malmo University Hospital in Malmo, Sweden.
Prior to her appointment in 2000 as staff vascular and endovascular surgeon to the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Srivastava was an attending surgeon at the SUNY Health Science Center and St. Joseph’s Hospital and Health Center also in Syracuse. She also served as Assistant Professor of Surgery and Interventional Radiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor prior to returning to the Cleveland Clinic in 2005 and is now Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine faculty.
Dr. Srivastava’s clinical research has focused on her specialty interests, primarily on abdominal aortic endografting, thoracic aortic endografting as well as open and endovascular approaches to cerebrovascular disease. She was the principal investigator on the GORE AAA Pivotal and Continued Access Trials and conducted clinical research as part of the clinical studies on the GORE Thoracic Excluder stent graft system as well as the COOK TX-2 trial for treating thoracic aortic aneurysms.
She has been invited to present her research and clinical experiences at international and national medical conferences and symposia. She has authored or co-authored book chapters and articles on her specialty interests in medical textbooks and journals, including the Journal of Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery and the Annals of Vascular Surgery.
Dr. Srivastava is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. She is a member of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, the Society for Cardiovascular Interventional Radiology, the Society for Vascular Surgery, the International Society of Endovascular Specialists, the Academy of Transcatheter Therapy and the American Medical Association.
She also serves on the Society for Vascular Surgery Health Policy Committee helping to focus on health care reform and surgical coding/reimbursement issues as well as the Women's Issues Committee aimed at advancing leadership and mentorship among women vascular surgeons.
