Fred Littooy, MD
#14: 1990-1991
Dr. Littooy is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois.
Dr. Littooy received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in 1965 and his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1969. He completed his General Surgical internship and residency at the University of California in San Francisco in 1976. Included in the residency was a two-year research fellowship in the Wound Healing Research Laboratory of Dr. Thomas Hunt and a simultaneous NIH Clinical Fellowship form the American Cancer Society. Following the General Surgical residency, he spent a year as a Vascular Fellow under Dr. Jack Wylie at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. He then joined Dr. William Baker, Past-President of the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society and a Wylie-trained Vascular Fellow, at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois in 1977, and has remained there to the present. He was Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery at the Hines VA Medical Center for 26 years.
Dr. Littooy has served as a Principal Investigator in seven VA Cooperative Studies and two NIH Cooperative Studies. He was on the planning committees for two VA Cooperative Studies, one on the treatment of small abdominal aortic aneurysms, and one on the utilization of CABG prior to elective vascular surgery. He has carried out several retrospective studies of vascular problems such as acute aortic occlusion, anastomotic pseudoaneurysms, femoro-femoral bypass, ultrasonic follow-up of abdominal aortic aneurysms, long-term follow-up of asymptomatic carotid stenosis, and short stay carotid surgery. He has authored over 100 articles in the surgical literature and 25 chapters in surgical textbooks. He retired from active practice in July 2006.
His hobbies include photography, classical music, jazz, golf, bicycling, wilderness treks, and travel. Travel now includes trips from coast to coast with his wife Karla to visit his children and grandchildren.
