Dr. Vicken Melikian is a thoracic and cardiac surgeon based in San Francisco, California. He has an overall medical experience of 32 years. He graduated in 1985 from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. He completed a residency stage and a fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Melikian is a board-certified specialist in thoracic and cardiac surgery. He contributed to several published studies and some of the topics he covered are traumatic intracranial hematomas, thromboembolism in inflammatory bowel disease, spontaneous rupture of the spleen. Dr. Melikian is currently affiliated with the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center.