About Dr. Oderich
Michael E. DeBakey Endowed Chair in Surgery and Chief of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine.
Gustavo S. Oderich, MD, FACS is a native of Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is the Michael E. DeBakey Endowed Chair in Surgery, Professor of Surgery, and Chief of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he also directs the Baylor Medicine Center for Aortic Surgery and the Marcus VITAL Lab.
World-renowned for advancing fenestrated and branched stent-graft technology to treat complex aortic aneurysms and dissections.
After training at Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic, he built one of the world’s leading complex aortic programs — more than 7,000 open and endovascular repairs, over 26 investigational device trials, five textbooks, and more than 1,000 peer-reviewed publications.
Education, credentials & honors
Explore Dr. Oderich’s training, appointments, scholarship, and recognition.
Education & Credentials
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
MD · 1990–1995
Medical school and general surgery residency · Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Mayo Clinic & Cleveland Clinic
1998–2007
General & vascular surgery at Mayo Clinic; advanced endovascular fellowship at Cleveland Clinic under Roy Greenberg.
Baylor College of Medicine
2025–present
Michael E. DeBakey Endowed Chair; Chief, Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy; Director, Aortic Center.
#1 Ranked Investigator
Recent
#1 in aortic aneurysm research (ScholarGPS, past 5 years); honorary doctorates in Hungary and Brazil.
Medical education
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) — MD, 1990–1995
- UFRGS — Resident, General Surgery, 1996–1997
Postgraduate training
- University of Utah — Research Fellowship, Vascular Surgery, 1998–1999
- Mayo Clinic — Internship, Residency & Chief Resident, General Surgery, 1999–2004
- Mayo Clinic — Clinical Fellowship, Vascular Surgery, 2004–2006
- Cleveland Clinic — Advanced Endovascular Fellowship, 2007
- St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne — Advanced Branched Stent Graft Work Group, 2009
Current Academic Appointments
Baylor College of Medicine — February 2025 to present
- Michael E. DeBakey Professor of Surgery & Distinguished Endowed Chair of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy
- Chair, Division of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy
- Director, Aortic Center
Certified
Current Professional Organizations
Dr. Oderich is an active member and leader across the field’s foremost professional societies:
Current Teaching Responsibilities
- Director of the Aortic Center and faculty mentor — training vascular surgery residents and fellows in open and complex endovascular aortic surgery
- Mentorship of clinical and research fellows, residents, and medical students
- Course Director / Scientific Committee leadership for major symposia (Houston Aortic, AORTA, Charing Cross, VEITH)
- Faculty for hands-on endovascular workshops and visiting professorships worldwide
Publications
More than 1,000 peer-reviewed publications, editorials, abstracts, and book chapters, plus five edited textbooks.
Presentations
- 2025Roger M. Greenhalgh Memorial Lecture — Charing Cross International Symposium, London
- 2025Charles Tegtmeyer Lecture & Award — iSET; Keynote, 33rd Semmelweis Symposium, Budapest
- 2025Keynote — AATS/JATS Aortic Symposium, Osaka
- 2020Presidential Invited Guest Lecture — Western Vascular Society
- 2014Roy Greenberg Distinguished Honorary Lecture — Society for Vascular Surgery
More than 1,000 invited lectures and keynotes worldwide, with visiting professorships at institutions including Cleveland Clinic, Stanford, UCLA, Harvard/BIDMC, King’s College London, Karolinska, Kyoto, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Honors & Awards
Houstonia “Top Doctors” (2023); Marquis Who’s Who; Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, McGovern Medical School (2021).