Col. (Ret.) Todd E. Rasmussen, MD, FACS

Dr. Rasmussen is a professor of surgery and consultant in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he serves as director of the Gonda Vascular Center.

He earned his medical degree from Mayo Medical School in 1993 and completed surgical residency at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas in 1999. Dr. Rasmussen returned to Mayo Clinic to complete vascular surgery fellowship in 2001 and joined the Mayo practice in 2021 after a 28-8-year career as an Air Force surgeon, during which he completed deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world and led large research programs and appropriations for the Department of Defense.

Among several military awards, Dr. Rasmussen was presented the Defense Superior Service Medal upon retirement at the rank of Colonel. His research and innovation efforts have resulted in more than 300 publications, an h-index of more than 65, and more than 20,000 citations.

Dr. Rasmussen has patents in endovascular device and vascular shunt technologies and has collaborated with industry and the US Food and Drug Administration to study a new vascular conduit grown from human cells. He holds a physician-sponsored investigational new drug for a novel clinical study of this Human Acellular Vessel at Mayo Clinic. In addition to his full-time practice in open and endovascular surgery, as director of the Gonda Vascular Center Dr. Rasmussen spearheads a multidisciplinary practice that sees 50,000 patients and performs more than 10,000 surgical and procedural interventions annually.