Rawson Valentine, M.D.

R. James Valentine MD is Professor and Chairman of the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He also serves as Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery and holds the Alvin Baldwin Chair in Surgery. Dr. Valentine graduated from Emory University School of Medicine in 1980 and completed a residency in general surgery at UT Southwestern in 1985. He completed a vascular fellowship at UT Southwestern in 1986. Following a four-year tour of active duty in the United States Navy, Dr. Valentine joined the faculty at UT Southwestern in 1990 and rose through the ranks to become professor in 1999. He served as Director of the Surgery Residency program for 16 years before assuming the chairmanship of the Division of Vascular Surgery in 2010.

Dr. Valentine has authored 148 manuscripts, 25 chapters, and numerous other publications. He has served as a member of editorial boards of four journals and is the Vascular Editor for ACS Surgery. He and Dr. Gary Wind authored Anatomic Exposures in Vascular Surgery, a popular atlas that has been translated into four languages and is currently in preparation for a third edition. Dr. Valentine is past President of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery and the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery, and he is a former Governor of the American College of Surgeons. He is a Director on the American Board of Surgery and the Vascular Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery and serves as a site visitor for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education – International.

Medical School	Emory University School of Medicine (1980)
Internship	University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas (1981), General Surgery
Residency	University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas (1985), General Surgery
Fellowship	University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas (1986), Vascular Surgery

• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
• Carotid Artery Disease
• Surgery
• Vascular
• Venous Disease

• Primary Interests
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
• Arterial Fibromuscular Hyperplasia
• Carotid Artery Disease (CAD)
• Carotid Stenosis
• Genetic Disease Associated with Arterial Anomolies
• Iliac Artery Aneurysm
• Mesenteric Artery Aneurysm
• Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
• Peripheral Vascular Interventions
• Renal Artery Aneurysm
• Surgical Intervention for Varicose Vein
• Vascular Dissection of the Aorta & Carotid Artery

• Clinical trials in vascular surgery
• Genetic determinants in peripheral atherosclerosis
• Natural history, epidemiology, and control of permature peripheral atherosclerosis
• Outcome analysis in vascular surgery

Featured Publications

Evolving Patterns of Vascular Surgery Care in the United States: A Report from the American Board of Surgery.

Valentine, R.J., Rhodes, R.S., Jones, A., Biester, T.W. and Members of the Vascular Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery. J Amer Coll Surg 2013 In Press

Diagnosis and management of aortic graft infection.

Valentine, R.J. Semin Vasc Surg 2001 14 292-301

Primary Arterial Infections

Valentine, R.J., Chung, J. Curr Probl Surg 2012; 49: (3) 117-184

General surgery workloads and practice patterns in the United States, 2007-2009: A ten-year update from the American Board of Surgery.

Valentine, R.J., Jones, A., Biester, T.W., Cogbill, T.H., Borman, K.R., Rhodes, R.S. Ann Surg 2011; 254: 520-526

Hand ischemia associated with elbow trauma in children.

Brahmamdam, P., Plummer, M., Modrall, J.G., Megison, S.M., Clagett, G.P., Valentine, R.J. J Vasc Surg 2011; 54: 773-778

The limitations of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) in altering the natural history of blunt aortic injury.

Lang, J.L., Minei, J.P., Modrall, J.G., Clagett, G.P., Valentine, R.J. J Vasc Surg 2010; 52: 290-297

Secondary aortoenteric fistulas versus paraprosthetic erosions: Is bleeding associated with a worse outcome?

Valentine, R.J., Timaran, C.H., Modrall, J.G., Smith, S.T., Arko, F.R., Clagett, G.P. J. Amer. Coll. Surg. 2008; 207: 922-7

CT angiography has added value in patients with vascular disease.

McDougal, J. L., Valentine, R. J., Josephs S., Trimmer C., Clagett G. P., Modrall J. G. J Vasc Surg 2006; 44: 998-1001

Family history is a major determinant of subclinical peripheral arterial disease in young adults

Valentine, R.J., Guerra, R., Stephan, P.J., Scoggins, E.A., Clagett, G.P., Cohen, J.C. J. Vasc. Surg. 2004; 39: 351-356

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Arterial

Smith, S.T., Valentine, R. J. Cronenwett, J.L., Johnston, K.W. (eds), Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery 2008 Seventh Edition

Featured Books

Anatomic Exposures in Vascular Surgery, Second Edition.

Valentine, R.J., Wind, G.G (2003). Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• America's Top Surgeons
  Castle Connelly (2013)
• Best Doctors in Dallas
  "D Magazine" (2013)
• Top Doctors in America
  Castle Connelly (2013)
• "Courage to Teach" Award
  American Council for Graduate Medical Education (2009)
• Alvin Baldwin, Jr.
  Chair in Surgery (2008)

• Southern Surgical Association (2012)
• Western Surgical Association (2000)
• American Surgical Association
• Society for Vascular Surgery
• Society of University Surgeons
• Southern Association for Vascular Surgery
• Texas Surgical Society