Danielle M. Pineda, MD, FACS
Vascular Surgery

Education and Training

Undergraduate
Villanova University, Villanova, PA, BS, 2004

Medical School
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, 2008

Surgical Residency
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Fellowship
Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Board Certification
General Surgery-Vascular Surgery

Appointments
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery, Jefferson-Abington Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Background

Danielle M. Pineda, MD, earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 2004 from Villanova University, where she graduated Cum Laude. In 2008, she earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Pineda completed her residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 2014. She completed a fellowship at Pennsylvania Hospital in 2016.

Dr. Pineda was awarded the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Award for Best Resident/Fellow Presentation in 2012. In 2014, she received a Medical Student Teaching Award. In 2016, Dr. Pineda was runner-up in the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery’s Top Gun Surgical Skills Competition, a finalist in the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery’s Karmody Poster Competition, and first-place winner of the Delaware Valley Vascular Society’s Annual Care Report Competition. She has been awarded the Abington residency teaching award.

She has peer-reviewed publications on endovascular aneurysm repair, endoleak after aneurysm repair, dialysis graft patency, popliteal artery grafts, duplex ultrasonography, pancreatic cancer, and lung cancer. Dr. Pineda co-authored a book chapter on knee reconstruction, replacement, and revision, and one of dialysis access conduits. She is a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, and Faculty of the American College of Surgeons

She has made several presentations at medical meetings and symposiums.