Dr. Sweet is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington. He completed his General Surgery residency at the University of California San Francisco and his Vascular Surgery fellowship at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. During his residency, he completed a Master's degree in Clinical Research with the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Sweet is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in both General and Vascular surgery.

Dr. Sweet's research interests relate to the development of new endovascular therapies for aortic aneurysms involving the peri-visceral aorta, as well as the study of the morphology, natural history and epidemiology of thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms. Dr. Sweet has been granted an Investigational Device Exemption from the Food and Drug Administration to perform physician modified branched-fenestrated endovascular repair of thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms. He is widely published in his field.