Daniel Lawrence Gramins, MD, FACS
801 North 29th Street, P.O. Box 37000
Background
Staff Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon, Billings Clinic, 2019 to present
Staff Cardiothoracic Surgeon, UC San Diego Health System, 2014 to present
Staff Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon, VA San Diego Healthcare System, 2014 to present
Staff Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon, Naval Medical Center San Diego, 2005 to 2016
Captain, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy (Retired 2014)
Vascular and Trauma Surgeon, Head of the Department of Surgery, NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit, Kandahar Airfield, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, 2013-4
Vascular and Trauma Surgeon, Chief of Professional Services, USMC Role 2 Surgical Facility, Camp Al-Taqaddum, Anbar Province, Iraq, 2008
Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff, Naval Medical Center San Diego, 2010-2
Interim Head, Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Naval Medical Center San Diego, 2011-2
Head, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Naval Medical Center San Diego, 2006-11
General Surgeon and Flight Surgeon, U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 2001-2
Flight Surgeon, Carrier Air Wing EIGHT, Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Florida, 1995-7
General Medical Officer, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, 1994
Other Interests
Adult Cardiac Surgery, including mini-sternotomy AVR and TAVR
Adult Thoracic Surgery, including pectus surgery in young adults, chest wall reconstruction for malignancy and trauma, and sternal salvage after failed sternotomy
Vascular Surgery, including TEVAR, EVAR, Hybrid revascularization, and spine access surgery
Research
Ongoing longitudinal follow up of adult pectus surgery patients from Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Additional Educational Information
Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences, AB cum laude 1989
Georgetown University School of Medicine, MD 1993
Naval Medical Center San Diego, Internship in Basic Surgery 1993-4
Naval Aerospace Medical Institute Student Flight Surgeon 1994-5
National Naval Medical Center General Surgery Residency 1997-2001
Carolinas Heart Institute Vascular Surgery Fellowship 2002-3
Carolinas Heart Institute Thoracic Surgery Residency 2003-5
Printer-friendly [2] Practice Areas
- Cardiac
- Thoracic
- Vascular
- Minimally Invasive
- Transcatheter
- VATS
- Coronary disease
- Electrophysiology/arrhythmia
- Endocarditis
- Mechanical circulatory assistance
- Pericardium
- Valve disease
- Aortic valve disease
- Tricuspid valve disease
- Thoracic
- Chest wall
- Diaphragm
- Lung
- Mediastinum
- Pleura
- Reconstruction
- Benign disease
- Cancer
- Congenital thoracic
- Infection
- Vascular
- Great vessels
- Aorta
- Endovascular
- Professional Affairs