Sean Lyden, MD, is a vascular surgeon in the Cleveland Clinic Department of Vascular Surgery. He is board-certified in vascular and general surgery. Dr. Lyden specializes in open and endovascular stent graft repairs for abdominal aortic aneurysms, carotid artery stenting and surgery, lower-extremity endovascular treatments, thoracic aortic stent grafting, superficial femoral artery stenting, carotid endarterectomy, and peripheral arterial or femoropopliteal bypass.
An Ohio native born in Youngstown, Dr. Lyden received his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, following his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame. He took his internship and residency in general surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, during which he spent a year as a Trauma Research Fellow studying cytokine responses to ischemia reperfusion injury and sepsis; he was also inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He then received a two-year fellowship in vascular surgery from University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y.
Dr. Lyden was appointed to Cleveland Clinic in 2001 as a vascular surgeon. He also has an academic appointment as Assistant Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
His research has focused on his specialty interests. He is the Cleveland Clinic principal investigator for both the Cook Zenith fenestrated stent graft for abdominal aortic aneurysms trial and the Cook Zenith TX2 thoracic stent graft for thoracic aortic aneurysms trial. He is also Cleveland Clinic principal investigator for the Carotid Revascularization with ev3 Arterial Technology Evolution Post Approval Study (CREATE PAS carotid stent trial), and the ViaBahn® versus Bare Nitinol Stent in the Treatment of Long Lesion (= 8 cm) Superficial Femoral Artery Occlusive Disease (Vibrant trial). Along with these selected trials, he is involved in over 15 clinical research trials. He has presented his research and clinical findings at more than 60 national and international medical conferences and symposia.
Dr. Lyden is on the editorial review board of Endovascular Today and Annals of Vascular Surgery. He serves as a reviewer for several journals including the Journal of Vascular Surgery, Annals of Vascular Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, among others. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and abstracts on his clinical experience, research, and specialty interests in leading publications including Journal of Vascular Surgery, Vascular Medicine, and Journal of Endovascular Therapy. He has authored a chapter on complications of endovascular therapy for atherosclerotic thoracic aneurysm repair in a medical textbook.
Dr. Lyden is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery, the Peripheral Vascular Surgical Society, the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, the International Society for Endovascular Specialists, the International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Cleveland Vascular Society and the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society.
Dr. Lyden enjoys golf and spending time with his children.
