Bruce Alan Perler

Perler, a chief of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy at Johns Hopkins, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He received his A.B. in Zoology from Duke University in 1972 and his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine in 1976. He later received an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 2004. Perler completed an internship and residency in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1976 to 1981, and a fellowship in vascular surgery from 1981 to 1982 at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as Chief Resident at Pondville State Cancer Hospital and the East Surgical Service at Massachusetts General hospital, in 1979 and 1981, respectively. From 1977 to 1982, Perler was a clinical fellow in surgery and from 1981 to 1982 was a clinical and research fellow in vascular surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Perler joined the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine faculty in 1982 as an assistant professor of surgery and Director of the Johns Hopkins Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory. He was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and in 1997 he was promoted to professor. In 2002, Perler was named the inaugural Julius H. Jacobson II, M.D. Professor of Vascular Surgery. From 2002 to 2013, he served as Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy and is now Chief Emeritus of the same division. Perler subsequently served as Vice-Chair for Clinical Operations and Finance in the Department of Surgery. He established the Vascular Surgery Fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and served as its inaugural director for eleven years.

Perler is a member of multiple surgical societies, including the American College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Baltimore Academy of Surgery, the Society for Vascular Ultrasound and the Society of University Surgeons. He served as president of the Chesapeake Vascular Society, the Society for Vascular Surgery, the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery and the Eastern Vascular Society. From 2016 to 2019 he served as the Associate Executive Director for Vascular Surgery of the American Board of Surgery and from 2019 to 2024 served as Vice President of the American Board of Surgery.

Perler has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for Johns Hopkins surgical house staff, the Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Vascular Surgery for Vascular Surgery. Perler has published over 300 articles and textbook chapters on the diagnosis and treatment of circulatory and vascular diseases. He has served on the editorial boards of several vascular surgery journals and has served as Editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery, and the founding Editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders, and The Journal Vascular Surgery Cases. He has also served as an editor for several textbooks, including Vascular Intervention: A Clinical Approach, Advances in Vascular Surgery, Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Textbook for Clinicians and the 9th 10th and 11th editions of Rutherford’s Textbook of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy.