Shumacker Professor of Surgery, Associate Dean for Clinical Research F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Dr. Rasmussen completed his medical degree at Mayo Medical School in 1993 and surgical training at Wilford Hall Medical Center on Lackland Air Force Base in 1999. He returned to Mayo for vascular surgery training in 1999, after which he was assigned to the National Capital Area just before 9/11/2001. Soon after, he began caring for injured troops returning from Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.
In 2004 Dr. Rasmussen returned to San Antonio and deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom at the Air Force Theater Hospital on Balad Air Base. Following this, he initiated a vascular injury and hemorrhage control research and innovation program. He completed mulitple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and led surgical training missions around the world. His research and innovation efforts have resulted in 300 publications, 25 book chapters, 2 textbooks and 4 patents. In 2012 he gave a TED Talk on the transformation of military trauma care and its impact on civilian medicine, and in 2018 he was selected as an Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Deans Fellow.
Dr. Rasmussen served in numberous leadership positions in the Department of Defense and was Associate Dean for Research and attending vascular surgeon at the Uniformed Services University and Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda before his retirement from the AIr Force. In 2021 Dr. Rasmussen joined the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he is Professor of Surgery.
Saturday, June 17, 2023
11:59 AM – 12:10 PM ET