– Dr. Purandath Lall
Director of the Vascular and Endovascular department
Dr. Purandath Lall joined CHCm in 2013 as the Director of Vascular and Endovascular Services and to this date he is the only Vascular surgeon and endovascular interventionlist in the English speaking Caribbean.
He obtained his MB.,BS at the University of the West Indies graduating in 1994, and later completed his post graduate studies in surgery in the United Kingdom graduating in 1999 FRCS(Ed). He subsequently gained further experience in Vascular Surgery at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland. In 2001 he travelled to the USA and started his General Surgery residency training at the SUNY (Buffalo and in 2005 completed his surgical training at the UMDNJ-RWJMS Cooper University hospital in 2005.
Again in 2005, he entered the competitive Vascular Surgery Fellowship in Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and graduated in 2007 and was nominated Fellow teacher of the year.
He joined the department of Surgery at the VA Western NY Healthcare System in Buffalo as a Vascular and Endovascular Surgen and the State University of New York at Buffalo as a clinical Assistant Profeesor of Vascular Surgery. By 2009, he became the Chief of Vascular Surgery Services at the VA western NY Healthcare System.
Todate, Dr. Lall has performed over 2000 vascular procedures saving the lives and limbs of multiple patients. He is double board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Vascular Surgery .
Dr. Lall is currently a key reviewer for the prestigious Journal of Vascular Surgery and has written multiple book chapters on vascular disorders. He has more than 45 presentations and publications in international peer-reviewed journals.