Dr. Passman is currently on faculty at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the Division of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy, Department of Surgery as a Professor of Surgery. He is an American Board of Surgery diplomate in vascular surgery and practices the full spectrum of arterial and venous surgery. He is also the Director of the UAB Vein Program which provides inpatient and outpatient care to patients with a range of venous problems. Dr. Passman earned his AB degree in biochemistry and government, graduating magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. In 1991, he received his M.D. degree from the University of Vermont’s School of Medicine in Burlington and then completed an internship and residency in general surgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland (1991-1997). He completed a fellowship in vascular surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999). He was previously on faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as an Assistant Professor of Surgery, before joining the UAB faculty in 2006. He has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Vascular Surgery, and Annals of Vascular Surgery. He is also involved in several national medical societies, holding leadership positions in the Peripheral Vascular Society, and the American Venous Forum, and the Society for Vascular Surgery. He is past president of the Peripheral Vascular Society and the American Venous Forum.