John C. Lantis II, MD

Board Member

John C. Lantis II, MD, is currently the site Chief and Professor of Surgery at Mount Sinai West Hospital, and the Icahn School of Medicine; in mid-town Manhattan where he practices as a senior vascular surgeon.  On January 1, 2024; he was named the Director of advanced wound care; Department of surgery; Mount Sinai healthcare system.

In 2023 he became the Editor in Chief of the journal WOUNDS; a Clinical Compendium.  He is the past president of the New York Vascular Surgery Society, a founding member of the American Board of Wound Medicine and Surgery, and the Vascular Study Group of New York.

He is recognized as a world leader in limb salvage and lower extremity wound healing, which includes a very large breadth of knowledge in regards to cellular and tissue based therapies, negative pressure wound therapy, growth factor and stem cell therapy, and local/regional flap therapy. He has been a principal investigator on over 80 clinical trials.