Dr. Randolph D. Maloney

Dr. Maloney was born in New York in 1940 and graduated with honors from Georgetown University, Washington D.C. and received his MD degree with honors in 1967 from New York Medical College. He then spent five years at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine finishing as Senior Chief Resident in General Surgery in 1972. Dr. Maloney was on active duty in the US Navy Medical Corps as a Lt. Commander during the Viet Nam Conflict serving as Chief of Sick Officers Unit and the ICU and finished his active duty as Acting Chief of Surgery in June, 1974 when US Navy Hospital Boston, Chelsea, MA was de-commissioned. At that time he received a Presidential Unit Citation for care of the returning POW’s and it was here, at the Navy Blood Research Laboratory, that he first started his interest and research in blood auto- transfusion.

After his military service he was the first Clinical and Research Fellow in Vascular Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School helping to establish the first criteria for Non-Invasive Vascular Testing and where he continued his experiences with Autologous Whole-Blood Autotransfusion. He has continued as a Clinical Associate at the Massachusetts General Hospital since 1975. From 1975 to 1985 he was also Chief of Surgery at the Massachusetts (now Spaulding) Rehabilitation Hospital. In 1975 he joined Beverly Surgical Associates and became an active staff member of Beverly Hospital serving terms as Chief of ICU and the Department of Surgery. At Beverly he established and is the Medical Director of the first Non-Invasive Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory in a Massachusetts community hospital and continues research in autotransfusion.

Dr. Maloney is a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery, and a member of many professional societies including the American College of Surgeons, Massachusetts Medical Society, the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, Eastern Vascular Society and the International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, and American Association of Vascular Surgery. He has written or co-authored over 20 journal articles and traveled extensively throughout the world teaching and lecturing as an authority on the technique and use of autotransfusion in general and vascular surgery. His special interests also include the use of laparoscopic techniques in general and vascular surgery.

He is active also in community service as former Board Chairman of the Bay Area VNA, and Board member of the YMCA, charter member of Washington’s Naval Base at Beverly and in the Beverly Rotary Club.