Dr. Alik Farber is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Surgical Services, Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Boston Medical Center.  He is a Professor of Surgery and Radiology at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Dr. Farber is a graduate of Brown University and obtained his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.  He completed a residency in general surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, a vascular surgery fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and an endovascular surgery fellowship at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He received his Master of Business Administration from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.

Dr. Farber’s clinical and research interest is in the treatment of peripheral artery disease.  He is a National Principal Investigator of the landmark National Institutes of Health-sponsored Best Endovascular versus Best Surgical Therapy in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia (BEST-CLI) trial, a multicenter, multispecialty, pragmatic, randomized, controlled trial recently completed at 150 sites across North America, Europe and New Zealand.  He is Chair of the BEST-CLI Publications Committee, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation to oversee the analysis and dissemination of clinical research from the BEST-CLI dataset, with over 30 manuscripts currently in process.  As part of the International BEST-CLI Collaborative he and 25 leading vascular specialists from across the world are building on the BEST CLI evidence base to accelerate global patient-oriented solutions to peripheral artery disease and chart a course to answer the most pressing research questions in this field.

Dr. Farber is the Treasurer of both the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and the New England Society for Vascular Surgery.  He is also the Secretary of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery.  Dr. Farber has authored 264 peer reviewed manuscripts, 29 book chapters and has edited 2 textbooks.  He has given more than 150 presentations in over 20 countries.