Dr. Julie Freischlag is the William Stewart Halsted Professor of Surgery, chair of the Department of Surgery and surgeon in chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Freischlag is currently the principal investigator on several grants. Her research interests lie in the effects of smoking on arterial and venous endothelium causes of atherosclerosis and intimal dysplasia. She is currently looking at the reasons for failure in dialysis access sites and evaluating a new laser that can identify types of atherosclerosis in the neck arteries. Freischlag is the national principal investigator randomized trial evaluating open endovascular repair of aneurysms. She sits on many Editorial Boards and has numerous publications to her credit both in peer-reviewed journals and vascular surgery textbooks. Freischlag came to Johns Hopkins from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was chief of the vascular surgery division and director of the Gonda (Goldschmied) Vascular Center. Prior to UCLA, she was a professor of surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she was also the vice chair of the vascular surgery section and chief of surgery at the Zablocki VA Medical Center. Freischlag completed her surgical residency and post residency vascular fellowship at UCLA. She earned her medical degree from Rush University in Chicago.
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