Larry Kraiss, MD

Vascular Surgery (Visiting Physician)

The Clinic at Uintah Basin Healthcare
250 W 300 N
Roosevelt, UT 84066
Phone: (801) 581-3495

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Larry W. Kraiss, M.D. is Professor and Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Utah. He is a graduate of Vanguard University of Southern California and Baylor College of Medicine. He took his general and vascular surgical training at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he also spent three years in the vascular biology research laboratory of Dr. Alexander Clowes. He joined the faculty at the University of Utah in 1995, where he established an NIH-funded research laboratory studying translational control in endothelial cells and was named vascular surgery division chief in 2003. He was Director of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program at the University of Utah from 2003-2012. He maintains a broad-based vascular surgery practice at the University of Utah.

Dr. Kraiss has twice received teaching awards from the University of Utah general surgery residents (2000 and 2006). He was named the 1997 Wylie Scholar in Academic Vascular Surgery by the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation and received the 1999 von Liebig Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Lifeline Foundation. He is a regular reviewer for research proposals submitted to the NIH, NASA, and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS). He serves as Chair of the SVS Research Council and Chair of the Quality Committee of the SVS Patient Safety Organization. In 2013 he became the President of Rocky Mountain Vascular Surgery Society.

Dr. Kraiss sees patients in the Cardiovascular Clinic at the University of Utah Hospital, as well as several outreach clinics, including The Clinic at Uintah Basin Healthcare.

Dr. Kraiss’ appointments in the Basin occur on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.