Thomas Reifsnyder, M.D., FACS
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Director, Vascular Laboratory
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Thomas Reifsnyder, M.D., FACS, assistant professor of surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine. After completing a surgical internship, residency and vascular fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, he completed an endovascular fellowship at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
Before joining Johns Hopkins, Reifsnyder was a member of the teaching faculty at Western Pennsylvania Hospital as well as at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), St. Margaret Hospital.
Board-certified in general surgery, vascular surgery and vascular technology, Reifsnyder serves as director of vascular surgery and the vascular laboratory at Johns Hopkins Bayview. He has co-authored numerous publications and contributed to several professional organizations and committees across the country with his multi-disciplinary expertise.
Research Interests:
- Limb salvage techniques
- Dialysis access
Clinical Interests:
- Aneurysms
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Carotid artery disease
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Dialysis access
- Diabetic wound care
- Open and endovascular surgical techniques
- Lower extremity reconstruction
Recent Publications:
Seabrook GR, Mewissen MW, Schmitt DD, Reifsnyder T, Bandyk DF, Lipchik EO, Towne JB. Percutaneous intra-arterial thrombolysis in the treatment of thrombosis of lower extremity arterial reconstruction. J. Vasc. Surg. 1991;13:646-651.
Reifsnyder T, Bandyk DF, Seabrook GR, Kinney EV, Towne JB. Wound complications of the in-situ saphenous vein bypass technique. J. Vasc. Surg. 1992;15:843-850.
Reifsnyder T, Bandyk DF, Lanza D, Seabrook GR, Towne JB. Stress-thallium imaging to stratify cardiac risk in vascular surgery patients. J. Surg. Res. 1992;52:147-151.
Mewissen MW, Kinney EV, Bandyk DF, Reifsnyder T, Seabrook GR, Towne JB, Lipchik EO. The role of duplex scanning versus angiography predicting outcome after balloon angioplasty in the femoropopliteal artery. J. Vasc. Surg. 1992;15:860-866.
Reifsnyder T, Towne JB, Seabrook GR, Blair JF, Bandyk DF. Biologic characteristics of long term autogenous vein grafts: a dynamic evolution. J. Vasc. Surg. 1993;17:207-217.
Bandyk DF, Kinney EV, Reifsnyder T, Kelly H, Towne JB. Treatment of bacteria-biofilm graft infection by in-situ replacement in normal and immunodeficient states. J. Vasc. Surg. 1993;18:398-406.
Reifsnyder T, Grossman JP, Leers SA. Limb loss after lower extremity bypass. Am. J. Surg. 1997;173:149-151.
Leers SA, Reifsnyder T, Delmonte R, Caron M. Realistic expectations for pedal bypass grafts in patients with end-stage renal disease. J. Vasc. Surg. 1998;28:976-983.
Papasavas P, Reifsnyder T, Leers SA. Prediction of arteriovenous access steal syndrome utilizing digital pressure measurements. Vasc. Endovasc. Surg. 2003;37:179-184.
Societies:
- American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography
- Pennsylvania Medical Society
- Allegheny County Medical Society
- Allegheny County Vascular Society
Society for Vascular Surgery - Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery
Fellowship:
- American College of Surgeons
Phone: 410-550-1629
Fax: 410-550-1274
Email: treifsn1@jhmi.edu
