Barry T. Katzen, M.D., founder and medical director of Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, has received the prestigious Career Achievement Award of the 2007 Transcatheter Therapeutics Conference (TCT).
An interventional radiologist, Dr. Katzen, 61, is one of only a few non-cardiologists to receive the Career Achievement Award since its inception in 1994. He was recognized for his world leadership in endovascular medicine, in which physicians treat patients without surgery, using catheter procedures to open blocked arteries and patch dangerous bulges in vessels called aneurysms.
Dr. Katzen was honored for his pioneering development of angioplasty for vessels outside the heart. Dr. Katzen performed the first “peripheral” angioplasty in the United States in 1978 by using a balloon mounted on a catheter to open a blocked artery.
Barry T. Katzen, M.D., founder and medical director of Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, has received the prestigious Career Achievement Award of the 2007 Transcatheter Therapeutics Conference (TCT). 
