ABSTRACT
ROBERT W. HOBSON II is Director of the Division of Vascular Surgery and Professor of Surgery and Physiology,
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, and Director of the Department of
Surgery, St. Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey. The author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than 350
journal articles, book chapters, and books, he serves on the editoral boards of numerous journals, and is the immediate past
president of the American Association for Vascular Surgery, as well as a past president of the Association for Academic
Surgery (1981), the American Venous Forum (1996), the Eastern Vascular Society (1997), and the Association of Program
Directors in Vascular Surgery (1998-2000). Dr. Hobson received the B.S. (1959) degree in chemistry and the M.D. (1963)
degree from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
