Dr. Nazish Sayed, Assistant Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery and The Stanford Cardiovascular Institute has received his 2nd NIH-NHLBI R01 grant.  This ~ $2M grant for 5-years “Unraveling the Role of Endothelium in Chemotherapy-induced Cardiotoxicity” will investigate the impact of chemotherapy on the vasculature and what role does the endothelium play in imparting cardiovascular dysfunction.

Dr Kenneth Tran, a resident in the Division of Vascular Surgery, recently received the Young Researcher Prize (awarded to top 3 abstracts presented) at the 20^th anniversary of the European Symposium on Vascular Biomaterials meeting (ESVB) in Strasbourg, France. In addition, he was awarded the Frank J Veith LEAD Award for best resident presentation at the Vascular Techniques & Technology Thinktank (VAST3) meeting in Hilton Head, SC.  His research, entitled “Patient-specific computational flow simulation for thrombotic risk prediction after fenestrated endovascular aneurysm repair”, involves the novel application of fluid dynamic modelling for analyzing patient-specific hemodynamics after complex aortic repair.

Supported by Drs. Jason Lee (Vascular Surgery) and Alison Marsden (Bioengineering), his work represents the unique collaborative opportunities between Stanford’s Departments of Surgery and Bioengineering.

We are thrilled to congratulate former integrated residency alum Dr. Chelsea Dorsey on her promotion to Vice-Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for DOS.

Dr. Nazish Sayed, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery and The Stanford Cardiovascular Institute has received a NIH-NHLBI R01 grant.  This ~ $2M grant for 5-years "Deciphering the Endothelial Cell-Cardiomyocyte Crosstalk in LMNA Cardiomyopathy” will investigate the role of the vasculature in inherited cardiac diseases, thereby bridging work from both the Division of Vascular Surgery and the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.

Congratulations to Dr. Ron Dalman on his inspiring VAM Presidential Address, "The Next 75 Years of the SVS: Finding our Voice, Ensuring our Future". Your leadership and dedication will serve to inspire the current and future leaders of vascular surgery.  We are honored to be represented by such an amazing mentor.

Watch Dr. Dalman's Presidential Address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NQ-PnwON4&list=PLdMQA5pt2x0JIkWeeUUBZHJI-wBpMuecI&index=12

Congratulations to Dr. Elsie Ross on receiving the 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award (CDSA) from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.  Dr. Ross will receive $495,000 in funding (over three years) towards her research proposal: "The application of deep learning for automated vascular imaging analysis."

Stanford Surgery News

Dr. Jordan Stern is promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, effective August 7, 2021. We are proud of your contributions and commitment to the Division and look forward to your future accomplishments. 

We are excited to announce that Dr. Nick Leeper, will be awarded the Jeffrey M. Hoeg Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Award for Basic Science and Clinical Research.  Dr. Leeper will receive his award during the Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine Scientific Sessions 2021. 
Stanford Surgery News

Congratulations to Dr. Venita Chandra for receiving the 2021 VIVA Vascular Career Advancement Award.  The Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) recognizes young physicians with promise to be the future leaders in vascular surgery. 

VIVA Vascular Career Advancement Award
Stanford Surgery News

Congratulations to Dr. Nazish Sayed MD, PhD for his recent paper in Nature Aging.  The paper highlights a new type of age ‘clock’ that can assess chronic inflammation to predict whether someone is at risk of developing age-related disorders such as cardiovascular diseases.  The inflammatory aging clock (iAge) is one of the first tools of its kind to use inflammation to assess vascular health.

Link to Publication
Link to Stanford Medicine Article

Dr. Elsie Ross, along with her colleagues at Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, evaluate machine learning algorithms to identify patients at risk for PAD

General Surgery News

We are very excited to announce that Kate McGurk, Vascular Surgery Integrated and Fellowship program coordinator was selected at the awardee of the 2021 GME Program Coordinator Award for Outstanding Contribution.

Congratulations to Dr. Oliver Aalami on his promotion to Clinical Professor of Surgery, effective July 1, 2021.  We congratulate you on your academic achievements and look forward to your future accomplishments. 

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Sgroi on his promotion to Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, effective July 1, 2021. We are proud of all your accomplishments and look forward to your future contributions to the Division. 

Congratulations to Dr. Shipra Arya for being awarded the 2021 E.J. Wylie Traveling Fellowship.  We are very excited for Dr. Arya on this prestigious recognition. 

• Read Surgery Article Here 

Congratulations to the Leeper lab and colleagues for publishing in the NEJM the first human evidence that promoting “efferocytosis” (the phagocytic removal of diseased and dying cells) may have a beneficial effect on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Using PET/CT scans from an ongoing cancer trial, the investigators were able to retrospectively analyze vascular inflammation in the arteries of subjects before and after treatment with an anti-CD47 antibody. They found that blockade of this key so-called ‘don’t eat me’ molecule was associated with reduced inflammation in the carotid arteries. These findings are consistent with the groups previously published studies in mice (Nature, 2016), and may pave the way for prospective cardiovascular studies to determine if ‘macrophage checkpoint inhibition’ has the potential to become a new therapy to prevent heart attack and stroke.

As part of the Stanford Surgery Innovation Council Grand Rounds presentation, Dr. Oliver Aalami, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, presented the challenges and successes designing and building Digital Health research studies at Stanford and most recently leveraging these learnings to work with the Society of Vascular Surgery to deploy a national SVS Supervised Exercise Therapy (SET) Program for patients with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). To help others interested in remote patient monitoring studies and solutions, he co-founded the open-source framework CardinalKit to save research groups $120,000 and 12 months in development time. As director of Biodesign for Digital Health, Dr. Aalami teaches two courses, Biodesign for Digital Healthto teach best practices for digital health implementation and Building for Digital Health to actually build and deploy on-campus research projects using CardinalKit. This year a post-Kidney transplantation navigation program (PI: Dr. Marc Melcher) and a remote blood pressure monitoring program (PI: Dr. Paul Wang) are examples being built. 

Caitlin Bell, MD, general cardiology fellow at Stanford University and Leeper Lab member, has been selected as a biomedical research fellow through the CZ Biohub Physician-Scientist Fellowship Program.  Dr. Bell, will join 6 other physician-scientests from Stanford and UCSF in July of 2021, to pursue their biomeidal research through the fellowship program.  Congratulations to Dr. Bell on this amazing achievement!

Watch Dr. Dalman's grand rounds talk. 

Suleman Khan, a third year Stanford Medical Student, has been awarded the 2020 Dorothy Dee and Marjorie Helene Boring Trust Award under the guidance of Vascular Surgery faculty: Dr. Oliver Aalami, Dr. Carla Pugh, and Dr. Ronald Dalman. The Boring Trust Research Award supports Stanford Medical Students to spearhead independent research projects aiming to transform Cardiovascular care. It provides students with $15,000 over the course of a year to be applied towards research and educational expenses.

Suleman's project, entitled Vascular1, aims to combine Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality to teach medical students and surgical residents ultrasound guided vascular access (USGVA) strategies. USGVA is often learned on patients who suffer unnecessary complications or through expensive mannequins. Through Vascular1 and affordable Oculus Quest VR headsets, medical trainees will dynamically learn the hand-eye coordination skills required for safe USGVA. Suleman's project will also include an educational study of trainees to compare pre- and post- training performance with Vascular1 with the hope of distributing the platform to other institutions. 
Boring Trust Website

Dr. Nicholas Leeper is the recipient of the 2020 Falk Medical Research Trust Transformational Award. The $1M in funding from Health Resources in Action will fund Leeper's project "Precision Nanotherapies for Cardiovascular Disease" through November 2022.

Surgery News Link

We are excited to annonce that Dr. Manuel Garcia-Toca has been promoted to Clinical Professor of Surgery, effective November 1, 2020.  We congratulate Dr. Garcia-Toca on this accomplishment and thank him for his didication to our division.  We will continue to look forward to future achievements.  

• Surgery News Link 

Kenneth Tran, MD, PGY 3, Vascular Surgery Integrated resident on professional development, recieved the 2021 VESS/Medtronic Resident Research Award.  Dr. Tran's research proposal “Patient-specific computational fluid dynamics modeling for assessing the hemodynamic performance of complex endovascular aneurysm repair”, was selected in a competative application process. Dr. Tran will receive $12,500 in research support this coming year. Congratulations to Dr. Tran on this outstanding achievement. 

Dr. Dalman's publication in the Vascular & Endovascular Review outlines the background and proposed design for his study on metformin for growth suppression in patients with small AAA.

Dr. Dalman recently received an NIH R61-33 grant to fund his Limiting AAA with Metformin (LIMIT Trial). The trial will study Metformin Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Suppression.  Patients will be enrolled starting Summer 2021. 

Link to publication in VER

Representation Matters: Recruitment and Retention of URM to Vascular Surgery

Dr. Ron Dalman, Chief of Vascular Medicine joins faculty member Dr. Elsie Ross and program alumna Dr. Chelsea Dorsey along with UCSF's Dr. Joel Ramirez in a discussion on recruitment and retention of URM to vascular surgery in this episode of the Audible Bleeding podcast.
Link to Podcast 

Dr. Shipra Arya has been chosen to chair the Association of VA Surgeons' (AVAS) new Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Link to AVAS Announcement

Dr. Eri Fukaya has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, effecitve July 16, 2020.  We congratulate Dr. Fukaya on her spectacular clinical and scholarly performance and thank her for her didication to vascular health. 

We are excited to announce that Dr. Garcia-Toca has been selected as the Chief of the Division of  Vascular Surgery at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC). We believe that under Dr. Garcia-Toca's leadership the division will continue on a trajectory excellence and continued growth.  

Since the hire of Drs. Sorial and Garcia-Toca at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) in 2015, we have witnessed incredible growth in the Vascular Surgery service.  Due to their excellent in patient care and increased patient volume, SCVMC requested that we hire a third surgeon in 2018.  We were fortunate enough to recruit Dr. Sgroi.  Together, our three physicians have continued to expand the breadth of the Vascular Surgery service at SCVMC. 

We look forward to continued Vascular Surgery programmatic growth and expansion at SCVMC.

The Division of Vascular Surgery's Training Program has a new director. Dr. Venita Chandra has assumed leadership of both the Vascular Surgery Residency and Fellowship Programs. This announcment was the top @StanfordSurgery tweet of the month of May 2020. The enthusiasm this annoucment has received reflects both Dr. Chandra’s leadership potential as well as Dr. Lee’s decade-long effort to make our training program worthy of this much attention. Unlimited opportunity, building off of peer-leading market position - unbeatable combination.

Article on Stanford Surgery

Dr. Elsie Ross Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, in collaboration with Dr. Philip Tsao and lead invistigator, Dr. Joseph Wu from the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, recieved the Chang Zuckerberg Initative Grant to study vascular disease in diverse patients.

Dr. Ross CZI Project Summary

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $14 Million to Support Inflammation Research 

The Division of Vascular Surgery had the pleasure of interviewing an excelent group of vascular surgery fellowship applicants on March 18, 2020. The Division of Vascular Surgery faculty and staff were dedicated to keeping the interviews running as planned dispite a rapidly changing environment due to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place restrictions.

Article: Fellowship Interviews Move Online

Congratulations to Dr. Fukaya on being selected as the winner of the AVF-JOBST grant by the American Venous Forum Foundation. Dr. Fukaya will use this grant to study the role of leg bioimpedance as a biomarker for determining venous disease progression. 

Dr. E. John Harris received the Distinguished Fellow Award at the AVF 2020 Annual Meeting. The Distinguished Fellow awards are provided to recognized AVF members who have enhanced the AVF by volunteering for committees, as meeting Faculty, provided educational enhancment for trainees, and advanced venous disese by research and education. Congratulations to Dr. Harris on this achievment. 

We are proud to announce that Vascular Surgery's Lead Advanced Practice Provider Ani Bagdasarian, received a Stanford Health Care Virtual WOW Card as a result of her outstanding team work and dedication to high quality patient care at SHC. Ani's actions are another example of C-I-CARE in action.

Stanford Health Care's C-I-CARE program is a framework for structuring best practice communications and developing relationship based care approaches with patients.
Learn more about SHC's C-I-CARE

The Division of Vascular Surgery had the pleasure of interviewing an excelent crop of medical students applying for the Vascular Surgery Integrated program.  While we can only match two of them, we look forward to working with all of them in future collaborations.

Dr. Shipra Arya, Associate Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery, was elected secretary of the Surgical Outcomes Club. Dr. Arya will ascend to the presidency in two years.

The Surgical Outcomes Club is a consortium of surgeons and scientists interested in advancing health services and outcomes research in surgery. Dr. Arya was one of the club's Zinner Fellows as a junior faculty member.

Vascular Surgery Resident Dr. Elizabeth George won the 2019 Subspecialty Young Investigators Award from the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS). The award is open to residents or fellows in Cardiothoracic, Vascular, Orthopedics, Urology, Plastics and Otolaryngology. 

"The award sponsors my attendance to the AAS Fall Courses which are designed to inspire young academic surgeons and facilitate a lifelong career in academic surgery," said George. "Last year I attended the Annual Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course, and this year I will attend the Annual Early Career Development Course."

The Division of Vascular Surgery welcomes the new vascular surgery and vascular medicine trainees for the 2019-2020 year and celebrated the graduation of the  Vascular Medicine fellow, Dr. Mohammad Atif Rana.

Dr. Eri Fukaya's Graduation Remarkes

Vascular Medicine Fellow: Amy Kaufman, MD (left)
Vascular Surgery Interns: Shernaz Dossabohy, MD and Shaunak Adkar, MD (right)
Vascular Surgery Fellow: Teddy Hart, MD (not pictured)

Dr. Ross’ research builds on the promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify patients at risk for, or already affected by, peripheral arterial disease (PAD) through analysis of unstructured electronic health records. This focus is directly aligned with Stanford Medicine’s Integrated Strategic Plan - “Value focused, digitally driven, uniquely Stanford” (http://med.stanford.edu/isp/strategic-priorities.html), as well as our emphasis on Precision Health - "predicting, preventing and curing, precisely".  (http://med.stanford.edu/precisionhealth.html). Her research promises to revolutionize how tens of millions patients with PAD, at 3-fold risk for premature death by virtue of this diagnosis, are identified, offered early intervention and ultimately managed, all in the most efficient and cost-effective method possible. Potentially paradigm changing research in cardiovascular care - a powerful partnership between the Divisions of Vascular Surgery and Bioinformatics at Stanford Medicine.

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Dr. Elsie Ross was featured on the front cover of the August 2019 edition of the Society for Vascular Surgery publication Vascular Specialist.

Congratulations to Dr. Leeper on his promotion to Professor! The University Provost approved the promotion of Dr. Nicholas Leeper to Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Medicine, effective August 1, 2019. Join us in congratulating Dr. Leeper on this well-deserved promotion!

Health technology solutions—such as mobile apps and wearables—can play a huge role in activity tracking and assessing the outcomes of peripheral vascular interventions, says Ronald L Dalman (Stanford, USA), president-elect of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS). Down the road, the SVS plans a branded mobile activity tracker and Dalman notes that such tools may also be used to measure aneurysm diameter, or look for evidence of stroke when patients are sleeping. Still, accuracy, expense, appropriateness, privacy, reliability, reproducibility and “those types of issues” will be a concern, he states.

Dalman spoke to Vascular News at the SVS Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM; 12–15 June 2019, National Harbor, USA).

KGO TV- The Heart of a Warrior: Saving Tom Tolbert

Bay Area sports personality and former Golden State Warrior Tom Tolbert suffered an aortic dissection in 2017. The documentary shows how Stanford Hospital treated the life-threatening tear near his heart. Dr. Joseph Woo, Chair of the Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dr. Jason Lee, Director of Endovascular Surgery, and Dr. David Liang, professor of cardiovascular medicine, are interviewed for the story.

Watch the Documentary

Congratulations to Dr. Nicholas Leeper, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Medicine for receiving the Established Investigator Award (EIA) from the American Heart Association (AHA).  Per the AHA, this award is designed “to support mid-career investigators with unusual promise and established records of accomplishments.”   The Leeper Lab plans to use this support to investigate emerging immunological aspects of atherosclerosis, with a focus on developing new translational therapies designed to suppress vascular inflammation.

In the largest genetics study ever performed on varicose veins, Dr. Fukaya and colleagues pursue the inherited and environmental drivers of disease and identify a novel link between varicose veins and human height.

We are excited to welcome Stanford Vascular Surgery graduates Dr. Elsie Gyang Ross and Dr. Michael Sgroi to the Stanford Division of Vascular Surgery Faculty.  Dr. Ross is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and will be at Stanford Hospital and Palo Alto VA.  Dr. Sgroi is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery and will be at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. 

We are excited to announce that per the June 2018 business meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), Dr. Ron Dalman has been appointed to Society Vice President for the 2018-2019 academic year. SVS bylaws state that, in sequential years the Vice President accedes to the positions of President-Elect, and then President. Thus, Dr. Dalman will serve as SVS President during the 2020-2021 academic year.  In his future role as SVS President, Dr. Dalman will be preceded by emeritus Stanford Vascular Surgery faculty Drs. Thomas J. Fogarty (1995) and Christopher K. Zarins (1999). 

The SVS is the world’s oldest (founded in 1947) and most influential society dedicated to the advancement of vascular health and well-being, with 6,000 members in the USA and in 13 international chapters worldwide. 

Congratulations to Dr. Jason Lee for his featured news story about a grateful patient who was connected to Dr. Lee through twitter.  

We are honored to host Dr. Peter Gloviczki as our Visiting Professor on Monday, April 2nd at the Vascular Surgery Conference and again on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at the Department of Surgery Grand Rounds.

Featuring: Featuring Jose E. Almeida, chairman, president, and CEO, Baxter International INC. 

Ticket Registration: tickets.stanford.edu

Dr. Nicholas Leeper, associate professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery, joined Stanford Cardiologists Drs. Abha Khandelwal and Marco Perez to discuss the latest trends in preventing heart disease, options for treatment and more in a Facebook Live Event on February 22, 2018.  Watch the video here

Stanford Bio-X Accepting Letters of Intent for the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program, Round 9

Letters must be received by: Monday, March 19, 2018 by 5:00 PM (PST)
Learn more here.

Featuring: Josh Makower, founder & Chairman ExploraMed Development LLC

Ticket Registration: tickets.stanford.edu

The Division of Cardiovascular Sciences of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute is seeking physician-scientists with cardiovascular disease expertise across the lifespan.

Ideal candidates will have an outstanding record of research accomplishments, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to oversee complex research programs. Desired expertise include, but not limited to, interventional cardiology, cardiovascular device, electrophysiology, coronary artery and/or vascular disease, hypertension, and heart failure.

Interested candidates please contact 

Dr. Yves Rosenberg at rosenbey@nih.gov or 301-435-1292 (tel) 301-480-3667 (fax)

Special Guest Lecture
Friday, November 10, 2017

“Hybrid Aortic Arch Surgery. Lessons Learnt from a Ten-Year Experience”

Presented by:

Ramesh K. Tripathi, MD, FRCS, FRACS
Adjunct Professor
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
University of the Sunshine Coast
Queensland, Australia

Posters:

Effects of Regional and General Anesthesia on Infrainguinal Bypass Surgery Outcomes
Michael D. Sgroi, MD, Graeme McFarland, MD, Matthew Mell, MD
Stanford University, CA

Presentations:

Complex EVAR is Associated with Higher Peri-Operative Mortality but Not Late-Mortality Compared to Infrarenal EVAR Amongst Octogenarians
Kenneth Tran, MD, Andy Lee, MD, Graeme McFarland, MD, Mike Sgroi, MD, Nathan Itoga, MD, Jason Lee, MD
Stanford School of Medicine, CA

Long-Term Outcomes after Repair of Symptomatic Non-Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Karen Trang, BS, Venita Chandra, MD, Whitt Virgin-Downey, BA, Jason T. Lee, MD, E. John Harris, MD, Ronald L. Dalman, MD, Matthew W. Mell, MD, MS
Stanford School of Medicine, CA

Episode-Based Cost Reduction for Endovascular Aneurysm Repair
Ronald L. Dalman, MD1 , Ning Tang, MD2 , Diana Patterson2 ,Harnoor Jolly2 , Rika Ohkuma2 , Matthew W. Mell, MD1
1Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2Stanford Health Care,
Stanford, CA

September 21 - 22, 2017

Li Ka Shing Center | Stanford, CA

Event Registration

Agenda and Event Information

 Stanford Medicine's Office of Faculty Development and Diversity is offering a workshop with Stanford Graudate School of Business lecturer Matt Abrahams.  

 "Think Fast, Talk Smart: Confident, Connected, and Compelling Presentations"

Monday, October 2, 2017 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, LK120

Register Here

Congratulations to Vascular Surgery fellowship graduates 
Drs. Andy Lee and Tiffany Wu

We honor your commitment to Vascular Surgery and look forward to your future accomplishments.  

Vascular Surgery Chief Dr. Ron Dalman and Vascular Surgery Program Director Dr. Jason Lee reflect on the training of graduating fellows Drs. Andy Lee and Tiffany Wu at the 2017 Vascular Surgery Graduation Dinner.  

Please see link for Dr. Dalman's Graduation Address

Dr. Ron Dalman, Vascular Surgery Chief will be co-moderating a session on the "Current Status of TEVAR for aneurysm and dissection" at the Stanford Festgraft Symposium on Monday, July 31, 2017.  

Event Location
Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center
291 Campus Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94305

After a very competitive fellowship MATCH this year, we are thrilled to announce that Ben Pham, M.D. and Kim Thompson, M.D. will be our new vascular surgery fellows beginning in August 2018. Congratulations and welcome Ben and Kim to the Stanford Vascular Surgery family!

Visiting Professor, Dr. Frank Veith
Professor of Surgery
New York University and The Cleveland Clinic
The William J. von Liebig Chair in Vascular Surgery The Cleveland Clinic
presented at Surgery Grand Rounds on Tuesday, May 9, 2017:

"Why Randomized Controlled Trials- Even in Top Journals Can Be So Misleading: The Crest and Improve Trials Are Two Prime Examples"

Dr. Daniel Clair,  Chair of General Surgey at the Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine, will be visiting on March 20-21, 2017.  Dr. Clair will be giving a Surgery Grand Rounds Lecture Titled: A Surgeon's Responsibilities on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. 

Event Date: Monday, May 15, 2017, 3:30PM - 6:00PM, SHC Atrium

Abstract Deadline: Friday, April 14, 2017 Prizes are awarded for the top 10 abstracts!

Who can submit an abstract?
Residents and fellows can submit abstracts of quality improvement and safety projects that are either ongoing or completed.
Can I send a revised abstract?
Yes, you can send a revised abstract. Please select "Yes, I am submitting a revised abstract" under the question "Are you submitting a revised abstract to the symposium?" Revisions are due by Friday, 4/28/17.

Register

Submit an Abstract

After 22 years of dedicated Vascular Surgery service and paralleled practice expansion, we are pleased to announce our recent clinic site relocation to the third floor of Pavilion A (Boswell), suite A31.  Our new location offers increased space, modernized patient rooms, and convenient access to the front of the hospital.  This move allows us to expand our clinical care while preserving the superior service our patients expect.  We are dedicated to our patients and are looking forward to providing continued high-quality patient care in our updated facility. 

Directions   
From the front entrance of the hospital (Fountain Entrance)
Take Public Elevator A up to the 3^rd floor.
Turn right and go in A32.

The BEST-CLI clinical trial is designed to determine the optimal method of lower limb revascularization in patients with critical limb ischemia.  

This recent artice "The Current State of Critical Limb Ischemia:  A Systematic Review" published in JAMA Surgery on August 17, 2016 reviews the current state of CLI.   

We would like to recognize Tarina Kwong's 6th anniversary as the manager of the Vascular Clinic, relocating to 3N Boswell later this summer. Thank you Tarina for all your hard work!

to virtual scenarios to prepare them for life outside of the hospital.  For the project they won the "Most Innovative Health Solution" award as well as a Gold Sponsor award from Humanis.  Humanis is a major private insurer in France and Dr. Colvard and his teammates will be working with them to continue the development of this project.
Congratulations Dr. Colvard!

Our Integrated Residency interviews took place on Thursday, January 14th, 2016. This was our 9th year of VSI training, with three graduates to date.

Read More

After a very competitive fellowship MATCH this year, we are thrilled to announce that Anahita Dua, M.D. and Kedar Lavingia, M.D. will be our new vascular surgery fellows beginning in July 2017. They are both extremely well published in the vascular surgery literature already and were recruited to multiple other top vascular programs in the country. Congratulations and welcome Anahita and Kedar to the Stanford Vascular Surgery family!

Dr. Matthew Mell gave a talk titled, “ Barriers to Regionalization for Complex Vascular Care” at the  2015 Stanford Cardiovascular Research Symposium / CVI Retreat.

This year at graduation, Dr. Dalman discussed the importance of practice and ethics in Vascular Surgery. Here are his remarks and the past garduations ones

Surgery, and as Past President of the Society for Vascular Surgery. Drs. Johnston and Forbes (right) are long-time friends of Stanford Vascular Surgery, and we look forward to extending the relationships between our respective programs going forward. 

We are thrilled to announce that Graeme McFarland, M.D. and Michael Sgroi, M.D. will be our new vascular surgery fellows beginning in July 2016. Congratulations and welcome Graeme and Michael!

The Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery is pleased to announce a recent partnership with Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.  We have successfully completed contract negotiations, effective 9.12.14 which allows Stanford to provide vascular surgery services for the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) beginning 3.1.15.  The agreement provides for the delivery of high quality vascular health care for patients throughout Santa Clara County, as well as extended clinical opportunities for graduate and postgraduate medical education for Stanford students at all levels.   We are proud to announce that we have recruited two very successful university surgeons (Dr. Manuel Garcia-Toca MD and Ehab Sorial MD) to the Stanford Vascular Surgery faculty, in order to fulfill the terms of the contact and enable this collaboration. We would like to thank the Office of Business Development, the Stanford Office of Legal Council, the Department of Surgery Leadership and the entire Staff and Faculty at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for their support.  We are delighted to begin this mutually beneficial collaboration with our colleagues in Santa Clara/San Jose, and look forward to further opportunities to improve vascular care throughout Northern California in 2015 and beyond.

For a long time, PAD as well as coronary heart disease weren’t in line in terms of thinking that it’s a disease that we need to think about for women, said Dr. Venita Chandra, the Stanford surgeon who operated on Gianino.

Read more

It's not every day the term "vascular injury" pops up on the injury report in any sport, and its uniqueness is enough to raise concern flags among fans.That was certainly the case when New York Rangers' goaltender Henrik Lundqvist was reported to have suffered just such an injury after taking a puck to the throat Jan. 31 in a game against the Carolina Hurricanes. (...) Dr. Jason Lee, director of endovascular surgery and associate professor of vascular surgery at Stanford University, treats vascular injuries in elite athletes and noted the biggest risk following an arterial dissection in the neck region is the risk of stroke. (...) Read the full article

 The NIH/NHLBI awarded the CVI T32 training grant, "Mechanisms and Innovation in Vascular Disease" with a second five year period, extending it to 6/30/2020. The program is led by Ron Dalman, MD and Phil Tsao, PhD, and administered through the CVI. It trains six post-doctoral fellows each year in vascular medicine and research, including vascular reactivity and thrombosis; vascular regeneration and development; metabolic or lifestyle influences on vascular outcomes; proteomic markers and genetic determinants of vascular disease; gender and ethnicity differences in vascular disease, and vascular bioengineering. Thirty faculty mentors from nineteen different departments/devisions within the School of Medicine and the University provide a variety of angles from which to address fundamental questions about vascular disease. Applications for training slots with start date in the fall of 2015 will be accepted through our website in the spring. 
Further information and Application: http://cvi.stanford.edu/education/cvi_fellowship_training_program.html
Contact: David L. M. Preston (650) 725-7964; preston@stanford.edu

Stanford University has the largest aortic aneurysm practice by procedural volume of any medical center, public or private, in the state, according to the 2013 report of the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (the most recent year for which complete data is available). Please see the report for more details. Taken together with our outstanding University Health Consortium vascular quality ratings, and tradition of seeking the most innovative and minimally invasive solution for every aortic problem, regardless of complexity, you can be assured that you or your loved one will receive optimal aortic surgical care at Stanford.

In-Memorium: Professor Philip Walker was the current Chairman of the Department of Surgery of the University of Queensland. Dr. Walker was the Vascular Fellow at Stanford University in 1991-1992, and a lifelong collaborator and friend of our program. He had been battling cancer for many years. He sent many trainees to Stanford for varying periods of time for clinical and research opportunities. His good nature and academic curiosity will be sorely missed.

Dr. Ronald Dalman:

Parallel Grafts For Hypogastric Artery Revascularization During EVAR: Techniques, Advantages And Disadvantages

Is The RRC-S (Residency Review Committee-Surgery) Working Well For Vascular Surgery: Should We Have An Independent RRC-VS

Cheese Wire Technique To Eliminate An Aortic Dissection Flap In Chronic TBAD Patient: When Needed; Advantages And Limitations

Dr. Jason Lee:

For Juxta- And Pararenal AAAs Sometimes Chimney EVAR Is Best And When; Sometimes Fenestrated EVAR (F/EVAR With Z-Fen Endograft) Is Best And When: The Two Techniques Are Complementary

Functional Popliteal Entrapment In High Performance Athletes: How To Diagnose It And How To Treat It By Partial Medial Gastrocnemius Resection: Why Does It Work

Treatment Of TOS In Competitive Athletes: When Is Surgical Treatment Indicated: Technical Tips And Tricks

Dr. Matthew Mell:

When Should Ruptured AAA Patients Be Transferred: Tips And Tricks For Doing It Safely And Effectively

Dr. Wei Zhou:

What Is New In The Effects Of Carotid Disease And Carotid Treatments (CEA And CAS) On Cognitive Function: Are There Differences Between CEA And CAS

Value Of IVUS To Evaluate Residual Stenoses After SFA Interventions And SPY To Evaluate Foot Tissue Perfusion To Assess Procedure Effectiveness: How Do They Work

The Leeper lab receives an NIH R01 to study the genetic determinants of angiogenesis in peripheral vascular disease. The title of this R01 is The paradoxical role of CDKN2B in blood vessel sprouting and maturation.

The Leeper lab receives an NIH R01 to study the genetic determinants of angiogenesis in peripheral vascular disease. The title of this R01 is The paradoxical role of CDKN2B in blood vessel sprouting and maturation.

https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-clinics/advanced-wound-care-center.html

Stanford Surgery faculty member Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty has been awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Dr. Fogarty’s is an Adjunct Clinical Professor in Vascular Surgery since 2006. Prior to that, he served as a Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery) from 1995-2001. While retired from the active practice of Surgery, Dr. Fogarty remains actively involved in the Stanford Biodesign Program and continues as Founder, Director and Chairman of the Fogarty Institute for Innovation at El Camino Hospital. He will receive the award from President Obama at a ceremony at the White House later this Fall. All are invited on Friday November 14, 2014 at 4PM to congratulate Dr. Fogarty at the 16th annual Fogarty Lecture, which will be presented by Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, past Commissioner of the FDA, past Administrator of CMS and currently Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute.

Please join on Thursday, October 23rd from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm for the opening reception of the Advanced Care Center at the Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center in Redwood City. Click here for more details. The Advanced Wound Care Center will be providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to optimal chronic wound care, with an emphasis on limb preservation for patients at risk for limb loss. We would like to congratulate Venita Chandra, MD, co-director of the Advanced Wound Care Center, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery, for her leadership in bringing this project to completion. Learn more about the Advanced Wound Care Center.

James Hereford, Chief Operating Officer of Stanford Health Care (SHC), will recognize the Vascular Center this coming Friday, August 29th, with a certificate of accomplishment for achieving greater than 90% likely to refer (LTR) Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Scores for the last six consecutive months. In July 2014, despite seeing over 500 patients (26% new), the Vascular Center received 99% LTR ratings, at the top of all 88 specialty clinics in SHC. Ms. Tarina Kwong, Vascular Center Manager, and Dr. Matt Mell, Physician Director of the Vascular Center, will accept the award. Congratulations to Dr. Mell, Ms. Kwong, and all the staff and physicians affiliated with the Vascular Center for their timely and patient-centered provision of leading edge and coordinated care!

Elsie Gyang : Stanford Vascular Surgery Resident was interviewed behind the scene at Big Data 2014. Watch Dr. Gyang's video, which emphasizes how the T32-enabled research time in the Integrated Residency will help our residents succeed in academic practice

The Vascular Quality Initiative at Stanford recently passed the milestone of over 850 procedural records initiated. The Stanford VQI registry was initiated in January 2012, and Stanford now participates in eight modules. Process enhancements and updates to the data entry and auditing systems have been ongoing since the first module was initiated.

In 2013, in partnership with faculty member Matthew Mell, Charlene Kell RN and Scott Kronenberg (Stanford Cardiovascular Health) developed templated op-notes and data entry forms in EPIC to eliminate the need for double entry. Since July, 2013, 100% of eligible cases have been captured and included in the registry.

Recently VQI provided Stanford with its first benchmarked reports, in this case comparing hospital length of stay following EVAR between participating hospitals in the NorCal Vascular Study Group and nationally. By the three year anniversary in January 2015, Stanford will have enrolled over 1,000 procedures in VQI.

The Division of Vascular Surgery will be represented at the Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27th, 2014 with two posters from Dr. Christopher Cheng's lab . Dr. Kelly Suh (Postdoctoral Fellow) will present, "Geometric Parameters of Complex Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair" and Kelsey Hirotsu (2nd year Medical Student) will present, "Quantifying In Vivo Three Dimensional Geometric Changes and Deformations of the Thoracic Aorta and Branching Vessels Following Thoracic EndoVascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR)