Alexander Gart, M.D. graduated from the Second Moscow Medical Institute in 1984. He continued his post-graduate training in General and Vascular Surgery in Moscow. After arriving to the United States in 1991, Dr. Gart completed his General Surgery Residency at Staten Island University Hospital, New York, and the Vascular Surgery Fellowship in Englewood Hospital, New Jersey.

Dr. Gart is currently the Director of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. He joined the New York Presbyterian Hospital Division of Vascular Surgery in 2003 and is a faculty member of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Gart has extensive experience in the management of aortic, carotid, and peripheral vascular diseases. A significant part of his practice involves hemodialysis access surgery. His particular interest is lower extremity distal bypasses to small vessels below knee.

Dr Gart performs minimally invasive vascular procedures, such as, angiography, balloon angioplasty, stenting and atherectomy at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in a state-of-the-art vascular operating room, as well in the new, fully- equipped minimally invasive procedure suite at Jamaica Hospital.

Dr. Gart is a fellow of American Collage of Surgeons (FACS) as well as member of Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS).