Peter A. Schneider, M.D.
Vascular and Endovascular Surgeons
Affiliations
Peter A. Schneider, M.D.
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, 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.
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