Gregorio A. Sicard, MD
#22: 1998-1999
Dr. Sicard is the first recipient of the Eugene M. Bricker Chair and Professorship. Dr. Sicard is Professor and Executive Vice-Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Chief over the Section of Vascular Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. In addition, he is Program Director of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship program at Washington University School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Saint Louis University and his Medical Degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, where he graduated Cum Laude in 1972. He completed his internship and general surgical residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and was a Renal Transplantation Fellow from 1977 to 1978 at Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Sicard joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in 1978. He was appointed Chief of the Section of Vascular Surgery Service in 1983, Chief over the Division of General Surgery in 1998 and recently, appointed to the position of Vice Chairman over the Department of General Surgery. He is certified in general and vascular surgery.
Dr. Sicard is a Past-President of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society, Missouri Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, the St. Louis Chapter of the National Kidney Foundation, the St. Louis Surgical Society, St. Louis Vascular Society, and Society of Spanish Speaking Vascular Surgeons (CVHH). He is also the Chairman of the Outcomes Committee of the Society for Vascular Surgery. D. Sicard recently received the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Lifetime Physician-Scientist Award. Dr. Sicard was listed as one of the nation’s Top M.D.’s in a special edition of American Health and in America’s Top Doctors. He is a member of numerous medical and academic societies, including, the American College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, Central Surgical Association, the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery and Society for Vascular Surgery, and honorary member of the Ecuadorian Society of Vascular Surgery, the Columbian Surgical Society, the Columbian Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, the Mexican Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, and the Dominican College of Surgeons.
Dr. Sicard’s basic and clinical research interests are primarily in the field of renal function preservation. His current clinical efforts are focused in the area of endoluminal vascular technology. In the latter, he is the principal investigator of three FDA trials in aortic and iliofemoropopliteal endoluminal vascular stent graft devices.
Dr. Sicard is a member of various editorial advisory boards and has published more than 250 journal articles and over 45 book chapters. He has been an invited moderator, speaker, lecturer, visiting professor and course director nationally and internationally on more than 300 occasions. His hobbies include golf, Spanish history and literature, and missing grandchildren.
