The first incumbent of the Robert R. Linton, MD Professorship in the Field of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery with Massachusetts General Hospital is Richard Cambria. A professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, Cambria is the current chief of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mass General. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the treatment of complex aortic aneurysm disease.
Cambria founded the Thoracic Aortic Center at Mass General, where he has served as co-director since 1999. He has also served as president of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery and the Society for Vascular Surgery, which represents 3,500 specialty-trained vascular surgeons and other related medical professionals.
Cambria is the associate editor of The Journal of Vascular Surgery, and has published more than 265-peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
This professorship is named for Robert Linton, the first vascular surgeon at Mass General. During his time at Mass General, Linton had a profound effect on the development of reconstructive vascular surgery and the evolution of vascular surgery as a distinct surgical specialty. In 1950, he was the first person to perform the autogenous vein graft for a patient with popliteal artery aneurysm. Four years later, he was the first person to perform the reversed saphenous vein bypass for occlusion of the superficial femoral artery, another major vascular surgery.
