Larry H. Hollier, MD
#11: 1987-1988
In January 2004, Dr. Hollier was named Dean of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in New Orleans.
Most recently, he was President of The Mount Sinai Hospital and, in addition, retained the title of Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Surgery of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which he has held since 1996.
Dr. Hollier was born in Crowley, Louisiana, and received his M.D. from Louisiana State University Medical School. After internship and early training in surgery at LSU and Charity Hospital in New Orleans, he served two years in the Air Force at the Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, in Montgomery, Alabama. Following completion of his military duty, he returned to LSU for additional training. In 1973-1974, Dr. Hollier served as a fellow in vascular surgery under Dr. Jesse Thompson in Dallas, Texas. He then returned as Chief Resident in Surgery at LSU and Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana.
After completion of his training, Dr. Hollier joined the full-time faculty at Louisiana State University. In addition to teaching at Charity Hospital and the VA Hospital in New Orleans, he also developed a busy clinical practice and established the Section of Vascular Surgery at LSU and the training program in peripheral vascular surgery.
In 1980, he was recruited to Mayo Clinic, where he founded the Section of Vascular Surgery and served as Chairman of the Section and Director of the Vascular Surgery Training Program. Dr. Hollier also served on the Mayo Institutional Clinical Practice Committee and the Clinical Practice Committee of the Department of Surgery. He was active in basic vascular research and the clinical practice of vascular surgery, establishing Mayo Clinic’s prominence in this field.
In 1987, Dr. Hollier assumed the Chairmanship of the Department of Surgery at the Ochsner Clinic and was elected to the Board of Management at that institution. He was active in expanding the surgical department activities in oncology, vascular surgery, cosmetic surgery, and transplantation. As a member of the Board of Management, he was intimately involved in the administration of the 750 member multi-specialty group practice of the Ochsner Clinic.
In 1993, Dr. Hollier was recruited to become the Chair of Surgery and Executive Director of Clinical Affairs at HCI International Medical Center in Glasgow, Scotland, where he recruited and developed an international multi-specialty group of physicians and surgeons at this new US-based academic medical center focused on the care of international patients. From there, in 1996, he was recruited to Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York as Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Surgery. In 2001 he was appointed Dean of Clinical Affairs at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Senior Vice-President of Clinical Affairs at The Mount Sinai Hospital. In 2003 he was named President and Chief Operating Officer of the Mount Sinai Hospital.
Dr. Hollier is the author of more than 300 articles in the medical literature and serves on the editorial boards of 13 surgical journals. He is currently actively engaged in vascular research and maintains an active practice of vascular and endovascular surgery. He frequently serves as lecturer and visiting professor.
