Michael Ritt Jaff DO, FACP, FACC

Michael R. Jaff, DO, has helped pave the road for vascular medicine. Since beginning his career in 1985, he has been involved in founding the Vascular Ultrasound Core Laboratory in 1997, which has become the largest duplex ultrasound clinical trial core laboratory in the United States, and was instrumental in creating the American Board of Vascular Medicine in 2005, an independent organization dedicated to the certification of qualified vascular medicine physicians, among other achievements.

Jaff received his education and training all over the country, from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. Today, he calls Massachusetts home, where he is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. There, he also maintains the roles of medical director of the Vascular Center and co-director and chair of the Institute for Heart, Vascular and Stroke Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has also been involved in countless well-known vascular trials.