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Peter A. Schneider, M.D.

Peter A. Schneider, M.D.

  • Professor of Surgery
  • Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Contact Information

Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
400 Parnassus Avenue, A-501
San Francisco, CA 94143-0957
Phone: (415) 353-2357
Fax: (415) 353-2669
peter.schneider@ucsf.edu
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Education

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Five-Year BA-MD Curriculum, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Class of 1983

Undergraduate, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1976-1978



Residencies

  • University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • Resident in General Surgery, June, 1983 to June, 1986 and July, 1988 to June, 1989
  • Chief Resident in General Surgery, July, 1989 to June, 1990

Fellowships

  • Research Fellowship: Roon Center of Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis, Department of Basic Research and Noninvasive Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA, July, 1986 to June, 1988
  • Clinical Fellowship: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Clinical Fellow in Vascular Surgery, July, 1990 to June, 1991

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Surgery, Vascular Surgery

Clinical Expertise

  • Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
  • Carotid Artery Disease
  • Complex Limb Revascularization
  • Critical Limb Ischemia
  • Diabetic Vascular Disease
  • Dialysis Access
  • Endovascular Aneurysm Repair
  • Mesenteric Artery Disease
  • Peripheral Artery Disease
  • Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
  • Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

Biography

Peter A. Schneider, M.D. is Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at University of California San Francisco. Dr. Schneider received his MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency and vascular surgery fellowship at the University of California San Francisco.

Dr. Schneider was the founding member and chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery at Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii from 1994-2018. At Kaiser, he helped to develop a Diabetic Limb Treatment Program and a surveillance program for patients with aneurysms and a registry for patients with carotid disease used for surveillance. He oversaw the development of the first endovascular operating room in the Kaiser system.

Dr. Schneider has served on numerous committees for the Society for Vascular Surgery and is the past president of Western Vascular Society where he also served on a number of its committees. He has been invited to numerous visiting professorships and has served as faculty or course director for many specialty courses. He authored "Endovascular Skills," the 4th edition, to be published in 2019, and has co-authored three other books on various aspects of vascular surgery. Dr. Schneider founded two medical device companies, served as an adviser to many others, and has been awarded numerous patents.

Dr. Schneider is a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Research Overview

Dr. Schneider has served as National Principal Investigator for numerous clinical trials. Over 25 years, he has been a strong proponent of clinical research in vascular disease and has participated extensively in trial design, oversight, core lab analysis, events committees, data analysis, follow up, presentation, and publication. He has consulted on the regulatory pathway and pivotal trials for many vascular devices, has participated in numerous meetings with the FDA and has testified at FDA panel hearings. His experience includes performing procedures for several first-in-human trials. 

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 128
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  1. Smith JA, Chung JM, Schneider PA, Kwolek CJ, Arko FR, Henao S, Titus J, DiMuzio P, Roddy S, Farber MA, Kashyap VS, ROADSTER trial investigators. Female and Male Patients Have Similar Outcomes After TransCarotid Artery Revascularization in Prospective Trials. J Vasc Surg. 2023 Sep 14. View in PubMed
  2. Rundback J, Kawai K, Sato Y, Brodmann M, Schneider P, Corbet MB, Kawakami R, Konishi T, Ghosh SKB, Virmani R, Finn AV. Treatment effect of medial arterial calcification in below-knee after Auryon laser atherectomy using micro-CT and histologic evaluation. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2023 Jun 28. View in PubMed
  3. Vedantham S, Gloviczki P, Carman TL, Zelman Lewis S, Schneider PA, Sabri SS, Kolluri R. Delphi Consensus on Reporting Standards in Clinical Studies for Endovascular Treatment of Acute Iliofemoral Venous Thrombosis and Chronic Iliofemoral Venous Obstruction. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2023 07; 16(7):e012894. View in PubMed
  4. Paraskevas KI, Conrad MF, Schneider PA, Cambria RP. Best Medical Treatment Alone Is Adequate for the Management of All Patients With Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis, or "Alice in Wonderland". Angiology. 2023 May 11; 33197231174724. View in PubMed
  5. Kim TI, Schneider PA, Iannuzzi J, Ochoa Chaar CI. High-Risk Characteristics for Clinical Failure after Isolated Femoropopliteal Peripheral Vascular Interventions. Ann Vasc Surg. 2023 Apr 23. View in PubMed
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In the News

  • BEST-CLI Landmark Trial Published in NEJM

    UCSF Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery - Alexandra Lee - November 09, 2022
    BEST-CLI is an international research study aimed at figuring out the best treatment for people with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) - also known as poor blood flow, and associated with Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI). It is Federally funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.  As of November 2022, BEST-CLI enrollment ended in October of 2019, and completed a minimum of 24 months' follow-up for all patients in October of 2021. The primary [...]

 

 
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