Herbert Dardik Explained

Herbert (Chaim) Dardik (May 17, 1935 – May 11, 2020) was a vascular surgeon who served as the chief of vascular surgery at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey, and founded that institution's first vascular surgery fellowship program in 1978.^{[1] [2]} Dardik made many developments in vascular surgery, including the first tissue-engineered bypass graft used to prevent gangrene and save lower limbs.^[3] In 2017 he earned the Society for Vascular Surgery's Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the profession.^[4]

Medical career

Dardik was born on May 17, 1935^[5] to Russian immigrants^[6] in Long Branch, New Jersey.^[7] After receiving his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine, Dardik completed his medical residency in general surgery at the Montefiore Medical Center.^[8] Following residency, Dardik specialized in the field of vascular surgery. In the 1970s, Dardik pioneered the use of umbilical veins as a source of graft tissue for bypass surgeries along with his brother Irving Dardik.^[9]

Dardik was an integral part in the development of several medical organizations dedicated to furthering medical research and education. He was a founding member of the Eastern Vascular Society and the Vascular Society of New Jersey, and helped to nationalize the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS).^[10] In 1987, he started the regular publication of the SCVS newsletter, a relatively new phenomenon among vascular societies at the time.^[11] He was also the director and founding member of the bloodless medicine and surgery program. Additionally, he conducted his own clinical research studying lower extremity bypass techniques, thrombolytics, and small vessel bypass indications and outcomes, among other subjects.^[4]

After eight years in Teaneck, New Jersey, Dardik and his family moved to nearby Tenafly in 1976.^[12] Dardik died of natural causes on May 11, 2020, at the age of 84.^[1]

Honors

• Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Vascular Surgery, 2017.^[4]
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.^[13]
• Inducted as a Member of the American College of Surgeons' Academy of Master Surgeon Educators in 2019.^[13]
• Recipient of the Hektoen Gold Medal from the American Medical Association in 1976 for work on developing the umbilical vein graft^[14]

Selected publications

• "Hybrid Repair of an Intrathoracic Bilobed Subclavian Artery Aneurysm", Ann. Vasc. Surg., 2019^[15]
• "Aberrant Splenic Artery Complicated by Aneurysm During Pregnancy", J. Vasc. Surg. Cases Innov. Tech., 2018.^[16]
• "Atypical Infrarenal Aortic Coarctation", J. Vasc. Surg. Cases Innov. Tech, 2017.^[17]
• "Carotid Axillary Artery Bypass: An Option Following Failed Open and Percutaneous Procedures", Vascular, 2014.^[18]
• "Autologous Platelet-Rich Fibrin Matrix As Cell Therapy in the Healing of Chronic Lower-Extremity Ulcers" Wound Repair Regen., 2008.^[19]
• "Femoral Popliteal Bypass Employing Modified Human Umbilical Cord Vein: An Assessment of Early Clinical Results.", Cardiovasc Dis., 1976.^[20]

Notes and References

1. https://vascularspecialistonline.com/herbert-dardik-vascular-luminary-and-lower-extremity-bypass-pioneer-dies-at-84/ Vascular Specialist, Bryan Kay, 15th May 2020
2. https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2020/05/14/englewood-healths-herbert-dardik-pioneer-vascular-surgery/5181854002/ North Jersey, Melanie Anzidei, May 14, 2020
3. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=herbert-dardik&pid=196186917 New York Times, Obituaries, May 14, 2020.
4. https://vascular.org/news-advocacy/dr-herbert-dardik-presented-lifetime-achievement-award-vam17 Society for Vascular Surgery, June 21, 2017.
5. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/hackensack-nj/herbert-dardik-9179128 Society for Dignity Memorial
6. https://jewishlink.news/monthly-sections/health-link-new/23070-englewood-hospital-s-dr-herbert-dardik-reflects-on-a-lifetime-of-achievements, The Jewish Link, February 1, 2018
7. New York Magazine, Mar 18, 1991, pg. 37
8. https://health.usnews.com/doctors/herbert-dardik-387932 US News, Health Section
9. Staff, H; Ibrahim, IM; Baier, R; Sprayregen, S; Levy, M; Dardik, II (December 1976). "AMA News". JAMA. 236 (25): 2859–2862. doi:10.1001/jama.1976.03270260015018. .
10. https://www.englewoodhealth.org/dr-herbert-dardik-receives-lifetime-achievement-award Englewood Health, "Dr. Herbert Dardik Receives Lifetime Achievement Award"
11. https://scvs.org/History.cgi SCVS History
12. Palmer, Joanne. "Remembering Dr. Herbert Dardik; Englewood Health’s chief vascular surgeon developed techniques, taught generations of students, inspired much love", Jewish Standard, May 28, 2020. Accessed July 18, 2020. "By the time he talked about Dr. Herbert Dardik of Tenafly, enough time had passed for Warren Geller to have assimilated the fact of Dr. Dardik’s death.... In 1968, the Dardik family moved to Teaneck, and in 1976 they moved to Tenafly."
13. https://www.facs.org/education/academy/member-list ACS
14. https://vascularspecialistonline.com/for-dr-dardik-the-first-a-first-rate-award/?hilite=%27lifetime%27%2C%27achievement%27%2C%27award%27 Vascular Specialist, May 30, 2017
15. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31009710/ Ann. Vasc. Surg. 2019 Aug;59:312.e11-312.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2018.12.106. Epub 2019 Apr 19.
16. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29942897/ J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech. 2018 Apr 27;4(2):119-121. doi: 10.1016/j.jvscit.2018.01.004. eCollection 2018 Jun.
17. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29349388/ J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech. 2017 May 24;3(2):96-97. doi: 10.1016/j.jvscit.2017.01.001. eCollection 2017 Jun.
18. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1708538113478759 Vascular. 2014 Jun;22(3):198-201. doi: 10.1177/1708538113478759.
19. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19128245/ Wound Repair Regen. Nov-Dec 2008;16(6):749-56.
20. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC287611/ Cardiovasc Dis. 1976;3(3):314-319.