Vikram Kashyap, MD, FACS, is a Staff Physician in the Cleveland Clinic Department of Vascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Cell Biology. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgery in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Kashyap’s specialty interests are endovascular therapies, cerebrovascular disease, aortic aneurysm and atherosclerotic occlusive disease. He is board-certified in vascular and general surgery, and he is a registered vascular technologist.
Dr. Kashyap completed his undergraduate work at The Pennsylvania State University, graduating with High Distinction with a Bachelor of Science. He received his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pa., where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Upon graduation he received the William F. Kellow Prize for “exemplifying the attributes of an ideal physician.”
He took his clinical training and completed his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he became Chief Resident. He accepted a surgical research fellowship from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland where he studied atherogenesis. He then received a vascular and endovascular surgery fellowship from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic in 2003, Dr. Kashyap was a vascular surgeon and Chief of Vascular Surgery at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. Dr. Kashyap was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force and rose to the rank of Lt. Col.
Dr. Kashyap is listed in Who’s Who in America. He received the American College of Surgeons Faculty Research Fellowship and was a recipient of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society Traveling Award. He is listed in the 2006 edition of "Guide to America’s Top Surgeons."
His research has focused on atherosclerosis and thrombosis. He is currently principal investigator on studies regarding endothelial function and co-investigator on a study of the clinical implications of peripheral plaque morphology. Also, he is principal investigator on a study of the direct thrombin inhibitor in patients undergoing lower extremity revascularization and on a study of biomimetic coatings for central venous catheters.
He is widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals and has authored or co-authored over 50 articles on his research studies and his clinical experience. He has presented his research results and his clinical experience at medical symposia and conferences across the United States and in Canada.
Dr. Kashyap is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, the Council on Cardio-thoracic and Vascular Surgery of the American Heart Association, the Association of Academic Surgery, the Society for Vascular Surgery, the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and the Cleveland Vascular Society, among others.
