BERNARDO MENDES

Bernardo C. Mendes, M. D. is a Consultant in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic, and is Associate Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Dr. Mendes received his medical degree from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil in 2008 and completed general surgery residency at Santa Casa de Misericordia de Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2012. He subsequently joined the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic as a Research Fellow with focus on endovascular treatment of complex abdominal and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms. He joined the vascular surgery integrated residency at Mayo Clinic in 2013, during which time he received a number of honors, including the Fellow Teacher of the Year Award in 2018, and the Mayo Brothers Distinguished Fellowship Award in 2017, the highest honor a trainee can receive at Mayo Clinic. He joined the faculty at Mayo Clinic in 2018 and was named Assistant Professor of Surgery in 2019, Associate Professor of Surgery in 2022 and is currently Program Director of the Advanced Aortic Fellowship, and Associate Program Director of the Fellowship and Integrated Residency programs. Dr. Mendes is an associate editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery publications and reviewer for the Journal of Endovascular Therapy, Journal of Vascular Surgery, Seminars in Vascular Surgery, The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, Annals of Vascular Surgery, and Vascular. To date, he has delivered over 100 national or international presentations, and published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He currently leads the complex aortic endovascular program at Mayo Clinic. His main clinical interests are open and endovascular treatment of complex aortic pathology with fenestrated and branched stent-grafts.