WELLESLEY, Massachusetts
Thomas F. O’Donnell Jr. M.D. is the Benjamin Andrews Emeritus Professor and Chair of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM). A 1963 graduate of Harvard College and a 1967 Cum Laude graduate of TUSM. He did his surgical residency at the Harvard Vth Surgical Service at Boston City Hospital and a vascular fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. While serving as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Tufts Medical Center and TUSM, the trustees of Tufts Medical Center appointed him the CEO and President 1996 – 2004. During his CEO role he practiced vascular surgery part time and then returned to the full-time practice of vascular surgery and clinical research in 2004.
His current areas of research are chronic venous insufficiency and lymphedema, which were stimulated by his year of postgraduate work (1974 – 1975) at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London. Currently, he is co-chair of a revision of the SVS/AVF Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of venous leg ulcers, which he chaired in 2014 as well as chair of the new AVF/AVLS Guidelines on Lymphedema. The majority of his 210 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 74 Book chapters, and 15 videos/ films on techniques deal with vascular disease. O’Donnell has served as the President of the Society for Vascular Surgery, the American Venous Forum, the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, the Eastern Vascular Society, and the Boston Surgical Society.
Guideline updates in the management of lymphedema
Thursday, June 11, 2026
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM ET