RALPH W. DE NATALE, Vascular Surgeon



ADDRESS:	CT Vascular Center, P.C. 2200 Whitney Avenue Hamden, CT 06518 (203) 288-2886




ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:


Premedical Education:	Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus Bronx, New York (1969-1973) B.S - 1973


Medical Education:	University of Bologna, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Bologna, Italy (1973-1979) S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical School Brooklyn, New York Clinical Clerkships (7/78-9/78), (7/77-9/77). (7/76-9/76)



Appointments:	Associate Section Chief Vascular Surgery Yale-New Haven Hospital 1996 Assistant Clinical Professorship Yale-New Haven Hospital 1992



PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:


Vascular Resident:	Peripheral Vascular Surgery Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals E. Stanley Crawford, M.D. Houston, Texas 77030 July 1985 - June 1986



Cardiovascular Fellow:	Cardiovascular Fellowship Baylor College of Medicine E. Stanley Crawford, M.D. Houston, Texas 77030 July 1984 - June 1985


Chief Resident:	General Surgery, Hospital of St. Raphael New Haven, Connecticut Affiliated with Yale University School of Medicine July 1, 1983 - June 30, 1984

Resident:	General Surgery, Hospital of St. Raphael New Haven, Connecticut Affiliated with Yale University School of Medicine 1979 - 1983



CERTIFICATION:	American Board of Surgery, February. 1985; recertification 1995 American Board of Surgery, Added Qualifications in General Vascular Surgery, 1990; recertification 2000


LICENSURE:	State of Maine, March, 1982 Institutional Permit, State of Texas, July, 1984 State of Connecticut, 1986



MEMBERSHIPS:	Fellow, American College of Surgeons Michael E. DeBakey International Surgical Society, 1986 American Medical Association, 1987 New Haven County Medical Association, 1987 Connecticut State Medical Society, 1987 New Haven Medical Association, 1987 Connecticut Society of Board Surgeons, 1988 Literary Chairman N.H.M.A., 1990 Vice President, New Haven Medical Association, 1995 Medical Records Committee, Hospital of St. Raphael Medical Staff, 1995 Member at Large, Medical Board, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1995 President, New Haven Medical Association, 1996 Board of Trustees, The Hospital of St. Raphael Foundation, 1998

AWARDS:	Yale-New Haven Hospital Community Surgeon of the Year - 1989-1990, 1990-1991, 1992-1993

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Crawford, ES, De Natale, RW: Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: Observations regarding the natural course of the disease. J Vasc Surg 1986; 3:578-582.

De Natale RW, Crawford ES: Graft reconstruction to treat disease of the abdominal aorta in patients with colostomies, ileostomies and abdominal wall urinary stomata. J Vasc Surg 1987; 6:240-7. Presented at the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery, January 28-31, 1987 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Blank S, Ponn RB, Stern H, Toole, AL, De Natale RW, Shaw RK, Scott WC: Out patient treatment of pneumothorax. Presented at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Board of Surgeons, 1987.

Leach S, Toole AL, Stern H, De Natale RW, Tilson MD, Effect of beta-adrenergic blockade on the growth rate of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Archives of Surgery, Vol. 123, No. 5:505-609, 1988.

Blank S, Ponn R, Stern H, Toole A, De Natale RW, Shaw R, Scott W, D'Agostino R: Outpatient Treatment of Uncomplicated Pneumothorax. Connecticut Medicine, Vol. 52, No 4:199-200 1988.

Crawford ES, De Natale RW: Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: Observations regarding the natural course of the disease. Reprinted in Selected Readings in General Surgery, p.31, 1991.

De Natale RW, Pagni S: Takayasu's Arteritis: The Middle Aortic Syndrome. The American Surgeon, May 1996.

De Natale RW, Pagni S: Primary aorto duodenal fistula secondary to infected AAA; The role of local debridement and extraantomic bypass. The American Surgeon, 1998.

LECTURES:

September 27, 1993 - Guest Lecturer - Ralph W. De Natale, M.D. - Guest Surgeon - Denton A. Cooley, M.D. - Surgical Therapy of Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms - A live, interactive video teleconference. Conklin Auditorium, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT

May 11, 1994 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Thoracoabdominal Aneurysms - Hospital of St. Raphael

June 19, 1997 - Grand Rounds - Carotid Disease - Griffin Hospital