Barry T. Katzen, M.D. is the Chief Medical Innovation Officer for Baptist Health South Florida and the Founder and Emeritus Chief Medical Executive of Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. He serves as Chairman of Interventional Radiology and Professor of Radiology and Surgery at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, with additional appointments at the University of Miami and the University of South Florida. A graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Katzen completed his training at Jackson Memorial Hospital, New York Hospital/Cornell, and St. Vincent’s Hospital/University of Rome. He established one of the nation’s first interventional radiology programs at Alexandria Hospital (VA) in 1976 and pioneered the use of live patient demonstrations for procedural education. A founder of interventional radiology as a specialty, he performed the first renal angioplasty in the U.S., was part of the team that achieved FDA approval for the first intravascular stent, and has led numerous landmark clinical trials in aneurysm, carotid, and peripheral vascular disease. He has authored four textbooks, more than 190 peer-reviewed papers, and served as founding editor of Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Chief Medical Editor of Endovascular Today. Dr. Katzen has received many of the field’s highest honors, including the SIR Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement, CIRSE Gold Medal, University of Miami Hall of Fame induction, TCT Career Achievement Award, Vascular Disease Foundation’s Julius H. Jacobson II Award, and AHA Distinguished Achievement Award.