Salvatore T Scali, MD, FACS, DFSVS, RPVI

Hello, my name is Sal Scali and I am a tenured professor of surgery in the University of Florida Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy. I am also the program director of the University of Florida vascular fellowship training program, as well as the medical director of the UF Health Shands hospital non-invasive vascular ultrasound laboratory. I am a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, as well as a distinguished fellow for the Society for Vascular Surgery.

I earned my medical degree from Georgetown University, followed by completing a general surgery residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. During my residency, I also completed a vascular biology research fellowship within the Harvard-Longwood Vascular Research T32 Program. Subsequently, I completed a clinical vascular surgery fellowship at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH.

During my undergraduate training, my interest in biochemistry combined with experiences I had with physician mentors inspired me to become a doctor. Faculty mentors from my general surgery residency — along with the unique combination of cardiovascular physiology, a complex treatment armamentarium, longitudinal relationships with patients and the immediate impact vascular surgery makes on people’s lives — were all factors that ultimately led me to choosing a career as a vascular surgeon.

My clinical practice is primarily based at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center. However, I provide on-call coverage at the UF Health Shands Hospital. I would like my patients to know that the care I provide will be compassionate and patient-centered while being bolstered by a contemporary perspective on the current evidence base.

I am interested in a variety of clinical topics in modern vascular practice, including aneurysm disease, infrainguinal arterial reconstruction, and carotid stenting. My clinical research interests include advanced endovascular therapies for abdominal and thoracic aortic pathologies, open and endovascular therapies for renal, mesenteric, carotid and peripheral arterial occlusive disease, as well as comparative effectiveness outcomes research and quality improvement initiatives. My basic and translational research efforts focus on elucidating the biologic mechanisms responsible for hand dysfunction after hemodialysis access placement, determining the effects of uremia on skeletal muscle biology and mitochondrial bioenergetics in PAD patients, as well as understanding biologic signatures of frailty after open aortic surgery.

I have an active National Institutes of Health-funded research program examining the biology of dialysis access related hand ischemia, as well as skeletal muscle changes associated with renal dysfunction among patients with peripheral artery disease. I am board certified in general surgery and vascular surgery by the American Board of Surgery and have special expertise in aneurysms, carotid disease, peripheral artery disease, dialysis access surgery and mesenteric artery disease.

I am a first-generation Italian-American, as my family immigrated from Grotteria, Italy. When I’m not practicing medicine, I enjoy exercising, scuba diving, reading and traveling.