Herbert Dardik
Herbert (Chaim) Dardik (May 17, 1935 – May 11, 2020) was a leading vascular surgeon. He served as the chief of vascular surgery at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey, and started the hospital’s first vascular surgery fellowship in 1978.
Dardik helped develop new surgical methods, including the first tissue-engineered bypass graft, which helped prevent gangrene and save legs. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Vascular Surgery.
He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, to Russian immigrant parents. He earned his medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at Montefiore Medical Center, then specialized in vascular surgery.
In the 1970s, he and his brother Irving Dardik pioneered using umbilical veins as graft tissue for bypass surgeries.
Dardik helped form several medical groups. He was a founding member of the Eastern Vascular Society and the Vascular Society of New Jersey, and helped nationalize the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS). In 1987, he began regularly publishing the SCVS newsletter. He also directed and helped found the bloodless medicine and surgery program.
His own clinical research covered lower-extremity bypass techniques, thrombolytics, and small vessel bypass outcomes.
He lived in Teaneck, New Jersey for eight years before moving to Tenafly in 1976. Dardik died of natural causes on May 11, 2020, at age 84.
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