Keynote Speakers

The Vascular 2008 organising committee are pleased to confirm the following keynote speakers:

 

Professor Kevin G Burnand
King’s College Schools of Medicine and Biomedical & Health Sciences, London, UK

Professor Burnand is Professor of Vascular Surgery and Director of the Academic Department of Surgery of King's College London School of Medicine at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Hospitals. Educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, London, Professor Burnand's further surgical training was at the Royal Marsden and Salisbury General Hospital, before returning to St Thomas' as registrar and senior registrar. During these 8 years, one year was spent in research with Sir Norman Browse and he later joined him in the Academic Department of Surgery, first as senior lecturer, then reader and finally as full Professor and being appointed Chairman in 1992. He also became Chairman of the Division of Surgery and Anaesthesia of King's College in 1997. Professor Burnand has written four books and over 150 papers on arterial venous and lymphatic disease in peer reviewed journals. He has a continuing interest in unstable carotid plaque, the aetiology of aortic aneurysms, venous ulcers and venous thrombosis.

Dr Claudio Cinà
Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada

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 Dr. Claudio Cinà is Professor of Surgery, and Chief Division of Vascular Surgery at St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, and Associate Member in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at McMaster University.

He received his vascular training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University; Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto; The Methodist Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine; and Groningen University Hospital, University of Groningen. He holds a Master of Science in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University.

His publications include 5 book, 7 book chapters and over 114 publications, in the areas of endovascular surgery, research methodology, surgery of the extracranial cerebral circulation, coagulation and fibrinolysis, surgery of the thoracic and abdominal aorta, peripheral vascular disease, perioperative risk assessment in vascular surgery; immunology in lung cancer; surfactant and histological changes of the lung in different pathologic conditions, mediastinal and thoracic surgery. He is the principal investigator and the collaborative investigator of several funded research projects.

Dr Frank J Criado
Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, USA

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Dr Frank J Criado is a Board-Certified Vascular Surgeon and Endovascular Specialist at the Union Memorial Hospital-MedStar Health in Baltimore, Maryland – USA.

Dr Criado is widely acknowledged to be a pioneer in endovascular therapy, with a 20-year interventional experience. He has contributed extensively to the literature with more than 100 peer-review articles published. He has also been active in clinical research, with a major focus on aortic stent-graft intervention and carotid stenting, and endovascular technologies in general.

He is a founding member and current President of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists (ISES), and a member of all major US and international vascular and endovascular societies. He is Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and of the Society for Vascular Medicine (FSVM).

Dr Harry Gibbs
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, AUST

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Dr Harry Gibbs is a graduate of the University of Sydney. He trained in Cardiology and Vascular Medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney with subsequent training at The Cornell University Medical Center, New York. He is currently the Director of the Department of Vascular Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He is a member of the ANZ Working party on the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism. His interests are in the non-invasive diagnosis and the management of disorders of the arterial, venous and lymphatic circulations.

 

 

Dr Andrew Holden
Auckland City Hospital, Auckland NZ

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Dr Andrew Holden is Director of Interventional Services at Auckland City Hospital and Associate Professor of Radiology at Auckland University School of Medicine. He is a member of the Interventional Society of Australasia (IRSA) and Senior Examiner for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists.

Dr Holden completed his radiology training at Auckland Hospital before undertaking fellowships in interventional radiology and body imaging at Royal Perth Hospital. He also received fellowship training in liver transplantation at King's Hospital, London.

Dr Holden is the author of over 40 articles in peer reviewed medical journals, has written book chapters and has been a faculty member at numerous international meetings. He is lead radiologist for the liver transplant and endoluminal stent graft programmes at Auckland Hospital. His clinical and research interests include advanced interventional techniques for endoluminal, renal and oncology applications as well as new CT and MR techniques.

Dr Karl Illig
University of Rochester, New York, USA

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Dr Illig attended college at Harvard University and medical school at Cornell, after which he returned to the University of Rochester for clinical training. He completed a five year general surgical residency, two year research fellowship, and two year vascular fellowship in 1997, at which time he was appointed to the faculty. He is currently Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery at the University of Rochester and Program Director and Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery.

Dr Illig’s research interests center around education and the use of simulators in training, thoracic outlet syndrome and effort thrombosis, and complex AV access and DRIL. Other contributions include exploration of fibrinolysis after supraceliac and thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair, risk analysis and reduction for carotid endarterectomy and stenting, endoscopic saphenous vein harvest, and traumatic vascular injury. He is an examiner for the US vascular oral boards, Chair of the SVS Committee on Resident and Student Outreach, and President Elect of the Peripheral Vascular Surgical Society, and is most proud of the fellowship,“0+5” residency, and student outreach efforts in Rochester.

Dr Zhao Jun
No. 6 Hospital of Shanghai City, China

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Dr Zhao Jun graduated and got the bachelor degree on 1990 from Shandong Medical University which locates in Ji-nan city, the capital city of Shandong province, I began the training of general surgery in the General Military Hospital of Jinan Military Region. On the year of 1996, I went to Vascular Division of Changhai Hospital, a national-famous affiliated hospital of No.2 Military Medical University in Shanghai, to be a trainee of vascular surgeon. On the year of 1997, I passed the entrance examination of post-graduate, and got the M.D degree five years later in the second military medical university. Then I served in the Vascular Division of Changhai Hospital as a vascular specialist till the year of. 2006. From then on, I was nominated as the associate-professor serving the vascular division of No. 6 Hospital of Shanghai City, with a mission to establish and develop the vascular surgery there.

Professor Ajay Kakkar
Thrombosis Research Institute, London, UK

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Ajay Kakkar is Professor and Head of the Centre for Surgical Science and Dean for External Relations at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London; He is also a Consultant Surgeon at St Bartholomews Hospital London and Director-designate of the Thrombosis Research Institute, London, UK. He received his medical education at King's College Hospital Medical School, University of London, and was awarded an MBBS in 1988, and a PhD in 1998. He was made a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1992.

His awards include Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons of England 1996, the David Patey Prize, Surgical Research Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1996, the Knoll William Harvey Prize, International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis 1997 and the James IV Association of Surgeons Fellow 2006.

Professor Kakkar's research interests are in the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolic disease and cancer-associated thrombosis.

Dr John Kingsley

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Dr John Kingsley is a U.S. Southern gentleman, educated at the University of Florida in both undergraduate and medical school training. He completed his surgery training in the military at the Bethesda Naval Hospital and served three additional years in the U.S. Navy. He is Board Certified in both Vascular Surgery and General Surgery by the American Board of Surgery, and he recently completed the initial U.S. Board Certification Examination in Phlebology. Dr Kingsley practiced vascular surgery for most of his career, and for several years was Chairman of the Vascular Surgery program at Carraway Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama. He founded the Alabama Vascular and Vein Center in 2002, and devoted his work full time to the new specialty of Phlebology in 2005. His Vein Center has grown to include two additional surgeons, and two more surgeons will join by the end of the current year. His practice is regarded as one of the most popular in the U.S., for patients throughout the south seek treatment in his facility. His experience in modern phlebology and endovenous thermal saphenous ablation is well documented. Dr Kingsley has published and presented more than 75 scientific presentations to his peers, with a focus on the vein specialty in the past few years. He was selected one of the top surgeons in America for the past several years.

Dr Michael Lawrence Brown
Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, AUST

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Michael Lawrence-Brown was born and schooled in Kenya then growing up in East Africa. He moved to Australia in 1965 and took up Australian citizenship in 1968. He studied Medicine at the University of New South Wales graduating in 1971. He was a professorial R.M.O. at Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney from 1971 to 1972. He completed his first part of FRACS in Sydney on May 1973 and became a research registrar.

Michael moved to Western Australia in December 1973 and trained in General Surgery at Royal Perth Hospital. He completed FRACS Part II in May 1979. His interest in vascular surgery developed in London while on exchange as a Senior Registrar at St. Thomas’ Hospital in 1979/80. He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer Surgery University of Western Australia and Consultant Surgeon at Repatriation General Hospital at Hollywood from 1982.

Michael was appointed as a Vascular Surgery consultant at Royal Perth Hospital in 1984. It was during the 1980’s that he developed a close relationship with Interventional Radiological colleagues that led to a special interests in the developing field of endovascular techniques for both occlusive and aneurysmal disease. Intra-operative blood salvage, surgical audit, quality assurance and surgical training have been areas of special interest. He has a passion for research and now coordinates an extensive multidisciplinary research program in endovascular repair and vascular surgery. He was appointed as a Clinical Associate Professor for the School of Population Health at the University of Western Australia in recognition to his research contribution in 2003, was the President of the Society of Vascular Surgery of Australia and New Zealand for 2004-5, and awarded honorary membership of the British Vascular Society for his services to vascular and endovascular surgery in 2004. He is currently the Director of Vascular Surgery for Perth Metropolitan Regions and a consultant to the Cook Group of Companies.  In January 2008 he received the award of Officer of the Order of Australia.

A/Prof Peter Ashley Robless
National University Hospital, Singapore

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Associate Professor Peter Robless graduated MBChB from the University of Aberdeen in 1992. He then completed training in General and Vascular Surgery in Glasgow and London, UK. He underwent training in vascular surgery at St Mary’s Hospital, London with further training in Endovascular Surgery in Sydney, Australia before returning to Singapore in 2004. He was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of London in 2006.

In addition to his surgical practice, Associate Professor Robless has several research interests, including carotid disease, endovascular surgery and vascular biology. He has published widely on the use of antiplatelet agents in peripheral vascular disease to prevent cardiovascular disease. He is the Director of the Non-invasive Vascular Laboratory at the Cardiac Centre, National University Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, UK, the European Board of Vascular Surgery and the American Society of Angiology. He also serves as Secretary for the Vascular Surgery Society of Singapore.

Dr A Frederick Schild
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA

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Dr. Schild attended the University of North Carolina. He received his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and interned at L.A. County Hospital. His surgical residency was at the University of Miami. He spent two years in the Army, thirteen months in Korea as a surgeon.

In 1992, he joined UM faculty as Professor of Surgery following his private practice. He has been the President of many societies, most recently the Vascular Access Society of the Americas (VASA). In 1995, he was the honored commencement speaker for the UM School of Medicine.

He has received many Honors and Awards and has published many articles in peer review medical and surgical journals, and has given presentations all over the world.

Dr. Schild continues to work at the University of Miami and devotes his time to research and teaching residents and medical students.

Dr Andrej Schmidt
Heart Centre Leipzig, Germany

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Dr Andrej Schmidt started his career as a physician at the Heartcenter Bad Krotzingen 1993. After training at the University of Dresden and University in Erlangen-Nuremberg he finished his degree in internal medicine, cardiology and angiology. Since 2001 he is working together with Prof. Scheinert at the University of Leipzig - Heartcenter as a peripheral interventionalist. Since 2001 the department is steadily growing and since 2006 the department acquired an additional clinic in the Parkhospital in Leipzig. The department is involved in many trials in peripheral interventions and has a volume of over 2000 interventions / year. Since 2005 the LINC-congress (Leipzig Interventional Course) is organized by the working-group of Leipzig. 

Dr Lew Schwartz
Vascular Surgery Office Chicago, USA

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After completing medical school at the University of Chicago, general surgical residency at Duke, and vascular surgical fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Schwartz was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago in 1995 and Associate Professor in 2001. From 1995-2004, Dr. Schwartz maintained an academic practice in vascular surgery as well as conducting federally-funded research in the fields of vascular biology, rheology and gene therapy. In 2003, Dr. Schwartz joined Abbott Laboratories as Global Medical Director, Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development and assumed his current role as Divisional Vice President of Abbott Vascular in April, 2004. He is currently chairing the Peripheral Drug-Eluting Stent project; an integrated development program including basic drug discovery, device design and manufacturing, toxicology, pre-clinical animal experimentation and clinical testing and reporting.

Professor Matt Thompson
St George’s Vascular Institute, London, UK

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Professor Matt Thompson is The Professor of Vascular Surgery at St George’s Vascular InstituteHaving qualified from St Catherines College Cambridge and St Bartholomews Hospital Medical School, he trained in vascular surgery at Leicester and Adelaide.

Professor Thompson runs a large tertiary vascular practice at St George’s Hospital, which is one of the largest in the UK. Clinical interests include the treatment of complex aneurysms, endovascular surgery and carotid disease. Professor Thompson’s basic science interests encompass the cellular and molecular events driving aneurysm rupture and carotid plaque instability. Clinical research involves investigations into the delivery of vascular services, outcome reporting and translational treatment of vascular disease.

Dr Yew Pung Leong

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Dr Yew Pung Leong graduated with MBBS from Monash University in 1979. After completing his internship at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, he went to the United Kingdom for surgical training. He obtained the FRCS(Ed) and the FRCS (Eng) before returning to Malaysia in 1985 as a lecturer and then Associate Professor at the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. He started the first Vascular unit in Malaysia at the university. Dr Leong now practise as a vascular and endovascular surgeon with an ever increasing endovascular workload. His main interest include endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms/dissections and endovascular revascularisation in peripheral arterial disease.

Dr Leong was the founding President of the Vascular Society of Malaysia.
He is a Past-President and councillor of the Asian Society for Vascular Surgery and a councillor of the International Society of Vascular Surgery. He has published numerous papers and presented many lectures at international meetings.

Additional Keynote Speakers Vascular2008

Dr Zainal Ariffin Aziz
Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Malaysia

Nurses Scientific Seminar

Marge Lovell
London Health Sciences Centre, Canada

Marge is a renowned vascular nurse and currently works at the London Health Sciences Centre in the Division of Vascular Surgery in London, Ontario, Canada. She is actively involved in clinical trials and research and teaches clinical trials management at the University of Western Ontario in London. Marge is Vice-Chair of the PAD Coalition, Past president of the Society for Vascular Nursing and the founder of the Canadian Chapter Vascular Nursing and the local London Chapter Vascular Nursing. She serves on the Vascular Disease Foundation Board and PAD Advisory Board for Canada. She recently completed her Masters in Education and was instrumental in putting together a Risk Management program for vascular patients.

A passionate and engaging speaker, Marge is dedicated to promoting awareness of vascular disease to the public and teaching ABI workshops internationally to health care professionals.

 

Anne Smith
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, AUST

Proudly Sponsored by Smith & Nephew

Anne has been the CNC wound management at the Royal Hobart Hospital for 5 years. Prior to this she worked in the same capacity for Central Coast Health NSW. She is a member of the Tasmanian Wound Care Association. Anne has completed a Masters degree in Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) majoring in wound management. She is very active in wound care education and teaches wound management in undergraduate and post graduate programs for a number of health disciplines. Anne is a member of the High Risk Foot Clinic team and has a special interest in the diabetic foot. In January 2004 MDT (maggot debridement therapy) was introduced as a treatment option for certain patients at The Royal. Anne co-ordinates this program in collaboration with the Vascular and Plastics teams.

Wendy White
Woundcare, NSW, AUST

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Wendy is a Clinical Nurse Consultant & Educator who has since the late 80’s, focused her practice in the specialty of wound & skin management.

 

Over the years she has managed nurse lead, hospital based wound clinics, been a team member / project officer in several multidisciplinary chronic wound services, and has delivered educational seminars & workshops through out Australia and New Zealand for both an international wound care company and more recently, the Wound Foundation of Australia. For several years she was a unit advisor / coordinator for the Post Graduate Studies, Wound Care, Monash University, Melbourne.

Nurse Workshops
Nurse Workshops are scheduled for Thursday afternoon.  The Debridement and Endovascular workshops will be repeated.

You will NOT be required to indicate your attendance. Entry to all workshops is included as part of your registration fee.

Ultrasound Symposium

Professor Peter N Burns
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

Peter Burns is Professor and Chairman of Medical Biophysics and Professor of Radiology at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,Toronto. He received his degree in Mathematical Physics in 1973 and, following a postgraduate fellowship in History and Philosophy of Science, a PhD in Radiodiagnosis in 1983. He subsequently held faculty positions in Radiology at Yale University and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, moving to Toronto in 1991. He was part of the first detection of tumour blood flow with Doppler. He subsequently worked on Doppler methods for flow detection and emodynamic measurement in the abdomen and pelvis. In 1988 he began research with microbubbles as ultrasound contrast agents, focusing on the development of nonlinear methods such as harmonic, pulse inversion and amplitude modulation imaging as well as their clinical applications in perfusion imaging of the heart, abdomen and tumours. He has published more than 130 papers, 4 books and numerous patents in diagnostic ultrasound.

He has been awarded the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Pioneer Award (1988); the Ian Donald Gold Medal for Technical achievement (2002); Innovation and Excellence Trophy of the Société anadienne de Radiologie (2002), was the Euroson Lecturer of the European Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (2005); the Donald McVicar and Brown Lecturer of British Medical Ultrasound Society (2006) and is the IEEE UFFC Distinguished Lecturer for 2008. He is a proud honourary member of the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine.

Martin Necas
Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, NZ

Martin Necas completed training in general and vascular ultrasound in Seattle, USA in 1996 and later received a Master’s Degree in Sonography through the University of South Australia. Martin has worked in the USA, New Zealand and Australia in a wide variety of clinical positions. Martin has recently settled back in Hamilton, New Zealand where he practices general and vascular ultrasound at Waikato Hospital Vascular Lab as well as working privately at Tristram Vascular Ultrasound. Martin is an ultrasound enthusiast, clinical instructor, and ultrasound lecturer. He has served on the NZ ASUM Branch committee as well as the ASUM Board of Examiners. One of Martin’s main clinical interests is the practice of duplex ultrasound in the context of vascular laboratories.

Marsha M Neumyer
Vascular Diagnostic Educational Services, Vascular Resource Associates, Harrisburg, USA

Marsha M. Neumyer, BS, RVT, is a former assistant professor of surgery and founding Director of the Vascular Laboratory Section of the Penn State Vascular Institute at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. She currently serves as CEO and International Director of Vascular Diagnostic Educational Services and Vascular Resource Associates, which offer international education and consulting services in medical ultrasound. Marsha has been recognized internationally as an educator and for her contributions to the field of vascular technology.

 

 
Ultrasound Workshops
Ultrasound Workshops are scheduled for Thursday and Friday afternoon. Please note, Friday workshops will be repeated during the day.

You will NOT be required to indicate your attendance. Entry to all workshops is included as part of your registration fee.