Michael L. Marin

Frank Veith, Juan C. Parodi and Claudio J. Schonholz, he was the first in the United States to perform minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery[1] (stent-graft procedure).

[2] In 2004, he was the first doctor to implant an intravascular telemetric monitor -- a device that alerts to physicians any leakage in aortic stent-grafts.

Marin joined the staff of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 1996, the same year he became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

[4][5] In 1997, he co-founded the Teramed Corporation, which concentrated on the development and manufacturing of aortic stent graft devices.

[11] Marin authored over 60 chapters and has been published in over 180 peer-reviewed medical journals and one book, Endovascular Grafting Techniques (ISBN 0-6833-0209-4).