Guest Discussants
These are senior authors or subject matter experts who have joined us for in-depth discussions
Joseph Caprini, MD, MS, FACS, RVT
Emeritus, NorthShore University Health System
Senior Clinician Educator, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
4/29/20
John Curci, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Vascular Surgery
Vanderbilt University
5/27/20
Bernadette Aulivola, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Loyola University
9/30/20
"Gender disparity and sexual harassment in vascular surgery practices." J Vasc Surg. 2020;72:692-9
Aksim Rivera, MD
Associate Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Jacobi Medical Center (NY, NY)
9/30/20
Mary McDermott, MD
Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Northwestern University
10/28/20
Scott Damrauer, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Genetics
Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
University of Pennsylvania
11/18/20
Caprice Christian Greenberg, MD MPH
Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Health Services Research and Professor of Surgery
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1/27/21
Misty Humphries, MD MAS
Associate Professor
Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
UC Davis
3/31/21
Jessica Simons, MD MPH
Associate Professor
Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
University of Massachusetts
4/28/21
Vincent Rowe, MD
Professor of Clinical Surgery
Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
University of Southern California
10/20/21
Mohamed Zayed, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Radiology, Molecular Cell Biology, & Biomedical Engineering
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
11/17/21
Heather Gornik, MD
Co-Director of the Vascular Center, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, University Hospitals
Professor, Case Western Reserve University
1/19/22
Ashley Vavra, MD MS
Assistant Professor
Division of Vascular Surgery
Northwestern University
2/23/22
Edith Tzeng, MD
Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh
3/30/22
David Armstrong, PhD, DPM
Professor of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC
4/27/22
Ilyssa Gordon, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Cleveland Clinic
5/25/22
Hernan Bazan, MD, DFSVS, FACS
Professor
Section of Vascular/Endovascular Surgery
Ochsner Health
9/28/22
Philip Goodney, MD, MS
Associate Professor
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Darthmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
10/26/22
Ulka Sachdev, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh
11/30/22
Andrew Hoel, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery, Northwestern Unviversity
1/25/23
Elsie Ross, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery) and of Medicine (BMIR)
Stanford University
2/15/23
Bradley Allen, MD MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology, Northwestern University
3/22/23
Luke Brewster, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Emory University
Program Faculty, Bioengineering Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
4/26/23
Anahita Dua, MD MS MBA FACS
Associate Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
5/17/23
Bowen Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia
10/18/23
Caitlin Hicks, MD, MS, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
11/29/23
Neel A. Mansukhani, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery, Northwestern University
1/31/24
"High incidence of type 2 endoleak and low associated adverse events in the Vascular Quality Initiative linked to Medicare claims." J Vasc Surg 2023;78:351-61.
Samantha Minc, MD MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University
2/21/24
"Community-Engaged Research in Vascular Surgery: An Approach to Decrease Amputation Disparities and Effect Population level Change.” Semin Vasc Surg. 2023 Mar;36(1):100-113.
Raul J. Guzman, MD
Professor of Surgery
Surgeon-in-Chief, Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Yale School of Medicine
3/13/24
"An ultrasound-based femoral artery calcification score" JVS Cases Innov Tech. 2023;10(1):101381
Bernadette Aulivola, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Loyola University
4/24/24
"The association of comorbid depression with mortality and amputation risk in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia" J Vasc Surg. 2024;79(1):96-101
Kate McGinigle, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Vascular Surgery
UNC School of Medicine
5/29/24
"Medial Arterial Calcification Score is Associated with Increased Risk of Major Limb Amputation" J Vasc Surg. 2023;78(5):1286-1291