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Chaired by Jonothan Earnshaw (United Kingdom), Laura Capoccia (Italy), Lotte Klitfod (Denmark), Gabor Menyhei (Hungary) and Martin Storck (Germany)

Chaired by Martin Björck (Sweden), Rebecka Hultgren (Sweden), Mark Koelemay (Netherlands), Hence Verhagen (Netherlands), Simon Rinckenbach (France)

Chaired by Florian Dick (Switzerland), Nabil Chakfe (France), Fabio Verzini (Italy), Karoliina Halmesmaki (Finland) and Janet Powell (United Kingdom)

Chaired by Maarit Venermo (Finland), Gert-Jan de Borst (Netherlands), Sonia Ronchey (Italy), Kevin Mani (Sweden) and Jürg Schmidli (Switzerland)

Chaired by Jonothan Earnshaw (United Kingdom), Laura Capoccia (Italy), Lotte Klitfod (Denmark) and Gabor Menyhei (Hungary)

Chaired by Philippe Kolh (Belgium), Melina Vega de Ceniga (Spain), Maarten Truijers (Netherlands), Stéphan Haulon (France) and Anders Wanhainen (Sweden)

Chaired by Maarit Venermo (Finland), Gert-Jan de Borst (Netherlands), Sonia Ronchey (Italy), Kevin Mani (Sweden) and Jürg Schmidli (Switzerland)

Chaired by Philippe Kolh (Belgium), Melina Vega de Ceniga (Spain), Vincent Jongkind (Netherlands), Stéphan Haulon (France) and Anders Wanhainen (Sweden)

Chaired by Martin Björck (Sweden), Rebecka Hultgren (Sweden), Simon Rinckenbach (France) and Hence Verhagen (Netherlands) 

Chaired by Florian Dick (Switzerland), Nabil Chakfé (France) and Karoliina Halmesmaki (Finland)

Chairs: Mauro Gargiulo, Italy & Jürg Schmidli, Switzerland

Speakers:

• Short presentation of the ESVS Descending Aortic Guidelines
  Vicente Riambau, Spain
• Minimally Invasive Segmental Artery Occlusion Prior To Endovascular Repair Of Thoraco-Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm To Reduce The Risk Of Spinal Cord Injury
  Daniela Branzan
• Cerebral Embolic Protection To Prevent Brain Inury In Thoracic Aortic Stent-Grafting (Tevar)
  Gagandeep Grover
• Experimental In Situ Laser Fenestration Creates Immediate Substantial Textile Damages
  Jérémie Jayet
• Mid-Term Results Of Total Endovascular Arch Repair Using Inner Branch Devices
  Rafaelle Spear
• Prevalence Of Bovine Aortic Arch Variant And Its Implication In Outcome Of Patients With Acute Type B Aortic Dissection
  Spyridon N Mylonas
• Wipper Second-Generation Spider-Graft: Development Of The Novel Hybrid Thoracoabdominal Aorticdevice In A Porcine Model
  Sabine Helena

Chairs: Lotte Klitfod, Denmark, Pirkka Vikatmaa, Finland & Hubert Stepak, Poland

Speakers:

• What Have We Learnt About Venous Disease That We Did Not Know In 2015?
  Marianne De Maeseneer, The Netherlands
• Drug-Coated Balloons Vs. Balloon Angioplasty In Av-Fistulas: A Randomized, Controlled Study With 1-Year Follow-Up
  Patrick Björkman
• Patency And Recurrence Rates Of The Revision Using Distal Inflow Technique For High Flow Brachial Artery Based Arteriovenous Fistula
  Michael Gerrickens
• 20 Years’ Experience Of Recanalization For Complete Occlusion Of Iliac Vein And/Or Inferior Vena Cava
  Olivier Hartung
• The Impact Of Electrical Calf Muscle Stimulation On The Residual Venous Obstruction In Patients Finished Standard Anticoagulation
  Kirill Lobastov
• A Systematic Review Of Paediatric Deep Venous Thrombolysis
  Mohamed A.H. Taha
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy In The Treatment Of Ischaemic Lower Extremity Ulcers In Patients With Diabetes: Results Of The Damocles Multicentre Randomised Clinical Trial
  Robert Stoekenbroek

Chairs: Maarit Venermo, Finland & Thiruvengadam Vidyasagaran, India

Speakers:

• What have we learnt about PAD that we did not know in 2015?
  Isabelle Van Herzeele, Belgium

• Vacuum Therapy For Intermittent Claudication: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  David Hageman
• Do We Need Multidisciplinary Team Decisions In Vascular Care: An Insight In Endovascular Pad Treatment?
  Christian-Alexander Behrendt
• Clinical Outcomes Following Femoro-Popliteal Angioplasty For Severe Limb Ischaemia (Sli) Are Worse Now (2009-2014) Than They Were In The Basil-1 Trial (1999-2004)
  Lewis Meecham
• Time Dependent Trends In Cardiovascular Adverse Events During Follow-Up Following Carotid Or Ilio-Femoral Endarterectomy
  Steven Van Haelst
• Predictors Of Bleeding In Patients With Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease: A Cohort Study Using The Health Improvement Network (Thin) In The Uk
  Luis A García Rodríguez
• The Lesser Saphenous Vein: An Underestimated Source For Autolougus Vein Bypass
  Patrick Nierlich

Chairs: Clark Zeebregts, The Netherlands & Fabio Verzini, Italy

Speakers:

• What have we learnt about AAA that we did not know in 2015?
  Anders Wanhainen, Sweden
• Effect Of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning On Myocardial Infarction During Open Surgery For Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, A Randomized Controlled Trial
  Troels Fogh Pedersen
• Screening Women For Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Clinical And Economic Effectiveness Results From A Discrete Event Simulation Model
  Matt Bown
• In Situ Antegrade Laser Fenestrations During Endovascular Repair For Aortic Aneurysm
  Dominique Fabre
• Targeted Screening Of Siblings To Individuals With Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Is Cost-Effective
  Sverker Svensjö
• Elastase Fibrinolysis As A Marker Of Presence, Size And Mechanical Stress Of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms And Its Intraluminal Thrombi
  Moritz Lindquist Liljeqvist
• Abdominal Graft And Native Aorta Infection Treated By Cryopreserved Allograft: Early And Long Term Results In 207 Patients
  Julien Gaudric
• Follow-Up After Endovascular Aortic Repair Can Be Stratified Based On First Postoperative Imaging
  Baderkhan Hassan
• Natural History Of Common Iliac Artery Aneurysm In Men With Screening Detected Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
  Martin Björck
• Cryopreserved Arterial Allografts For In-Situ Reconstruction Of Abdominal Aortic Native Or Secondary Graft Infection
  Sabrina Ben Ahmed

Chairs: Alison Halliday, UK & Ionel Droc, Romania

Speakers:

• What have we learnt about carotid artery disease that we did not know in 2015?
  A. Ross Naylor, UK

• Fusion Imaging Guided Evar Reduces Radiation – The Results Of A Prospective Radiation Evaluation During Evar (Revar)
  Adrien Hertault
• Visual Scoring Improves The Utility Of 18F-Fdg Pet/Ct In The Diagnosis Of Aortic Graft Infection
  Hannah Harris
• 2-D Perfusion Angiography: Is It The Evolving Technology Of Choice For Predicting The Outcomes Of Endovascular Interventions In Lower Limb Critical Ischemia
  Apurva Srivastava
• A Simple Clinical Score Identifies Higher Risk Of Stroke In Patients With Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis
  Dylan Morris
• Postoperative Transcranial Doppler After Carotid Endarterectomy Is Optimal For The Prediction Of Cerebral Hyperperfusion Syndrome
  Leonie Fassaert
• Effect Of Phenylephrine And Ephedrine On Cerebral (Tissue) Oxygen Saturation During Carotid Endarterectomy (Pepper): A Randomized Controlled Trail
  Leonie Fassaert
• Prevalence Of Extracranial Carotid Artery Aneurysms In Patients With An Intracranial Aneurysm
  Vanessa Pourier
• Clinical Applications Of The Study Of The Radial Force Of Thoracic Stentgrafts
  Yannick Georg
• “Non-Technical Skills In Surgical Disciplines: Communication Styles & Attitudes Towards Uncertainty And Risk In Surgical Staff, Trainees And Applicants: A Comparative Study”
  Bart Doyen

Chairs: Erney Mattsson, Norway & Claudia Schrimpf, Germany

• Keynote Lecture: What Have We Learnt That We Did Not Know in 2015?
  Bijan Modarai, UK
• The Functional Influence of Ischaemic Myotube Exosomes on the Regenerative Potential of Myoblasts
  Sarah Lewis, UK
• Ultrasound Surveillance After Endovascular Therapy In Critical Limb Ischemia Has Better Results Than Clinical And Haemodynamic Assesment Alone
  Carlos Martinez-Rico
  
• Renal Artery Orientation Influences The Renal Outcome In Endovascular Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms Repair
  Enrico Gallitto
• Radiation Dosage For Percutaneous Pad Treatment Is Different In Cardiovascular Disciplines: Results From An Eleven Year Population Based Registry In The Metropolitan Area Of Hamburg
  Christian-Alexander Behrendt
• Improved Adherence To A Stepped Care Model Reduces Costs Of Intermittent Claudication Treatment In The Netherlands
  David Hageman
• Wifi Classification Does Not Predict Limb Amputation Risk In Dialysis Patients Following Critical Limb Ischemia Revascularization
  Mohammad Abualhin
• Open Thoracic And Thoracoabdominal Aortic Repair In Patients With Connective Tissue Disease
  Paula Keschenau
• Exploring Antibody-Dependent Adaptive Immunity Against Aortic Extracellular Matrix Components In Experimental Aortic Aneurysms
  Raphael Coscas
• Perivascular Administration Of Atorvastatin Loaded In Microparticles And Hyaluronic Acid Gel To Prevent Intimal Hyperplasia In Venous Graft
  Francois Saucy

Chairs: Henrik Sillesen, Denmark & Alison Halliday, UK

Speakers:

• Anti-platetet Agents in Vascular Disease, Latest Developments
  Henrik Sillesen, Denmark
• COMPASS Trial: The Value of Rivaroxabane in the Cardiovascular Patient and in PAD
  Victor Aboyans, France
• VOYAGER Trial: Rivaroxabane Following Revascularisation for PAD
  Sebastian Debus, Germany

Chairs: Alberto Muñoz, Secretary General of the World Federation of Vascular Societies (WFVS), Colombia, Arkadiusz Jawien, President of the WFVS , Poland and Martin Björck, President of the ESVS, Sweden

• Why This Symposium? The Many Faces of Terror
  Martin Björck, Uppsala, Sweden
• The Robert R Rutherford Lecture: Contribution of a Vascular Surgeon in the Era of Terrorism and War Related Trauma – An Indian Perspective
  Varinder Bedi, Delhi, India, Past president of the Vascular Society of India (VSI)
• The Colombian Experience and the Role of Vascular Surgeons
  Alberto Muñoz, Bogotá, Colombia
• The Contemporary Experience from Turkey
  Tankut Akay, Turkey
• The Boston Marathon Bombing – Lessons Learned
  Matthew Menard, Boston, USA
• Vascular Trauma Experiences During the Multiple Paris Attacks
  Julien Gaudric, France
• The 2017 Manchester Arena Bombing
  Mark Welch, UK

Jos C. van den Berg graduated from the Medical School of the State University of Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1986. The army was served in 1986-1988 as radiological resident of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology of the Military Hospital “Dr. A. Mathijssen” in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In 1988 he started his radiological residency training program in the St. Radboud University Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. After finishing his residency in radiology in 1994 he started working as an interventional radiologist at the Department of Radiology in the St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Since July 2001 he was Head of the Department of Radiology of the St. Antonius Hospital. In July 2004 he started working as Head of the Service of Interventional Radiology in the Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Switzerland.
Since January 2007 he is associate professor of vascular surgery at the University of Pisa, Italy. Since 2011 he is a lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern, Switzerland, and since May 2015 he is an associate professor of radiology (Privat Dozent) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern.

Moderators: Alison Halliday, United Kingdom and Gert-Jan de Borst, The Netherlands

Speakers:

• How Carotid and Other ESVS Guidelines are Planned and Constructed
  Melina Vega de Ceniga, Spain
• Summary of our Recommendations and Consistency with the New ESC PAD Guidance
  A. Ross Naylor, United Kingdom
• The Ongoing Asymptomatic Debate – Where Do the Guidelines Get us and What Trials/Registries will Help for the Future?
  Alison Halliday, United Kingdom and Henrik Sillesen, Denmark
• An Evidence-Based Approach to Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients with Carotid Stenosis: Updated ESVS Guidelines
  Dominick McCabe, Ireland
• CAS in the Guidelines
  Jos C. Van den Berg, Switzerland

Miss Celia Riga is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Clinical Senior Lecturer in Surgery at Imperial, based at St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals. She is the Unit Training Lead for vascular surgery and has introduced team training and simulation programmes to the current vascular curriculum at Imperial College London in collaboration with the Patient Safety Research Group.

Her research interests focus on endovascular techniques for the treatment of arterial and venous disease, incorporating new advances in technology. She works closely with the engineering group at the Hamlyn Centre supported by the Wolfson Foundation, NIHR and the EPSRC within a dedicated research and translational facility for robotically assisted microsurgery.

She has won 20 national and international prizes and has published extensively. She has led the translational endovascular robotic research theme at Imperial, publishing the first pre-clinical evidence for the advantages of robotic technology in complex endovascular tasks such as supra-aortic branch intervention and fenestrated endografting.

Rebecka Striberger received her nursing degree in 2004 and her postgraduate diploma in Specialist Nursing – Medical Care in 2015. She is working at the outpatient clinic at the Department for Vascular Diseases, Skåne University Hospital in Malmö, Sweden and is since 2016 PhD student at Malmö University.

Dr. Jordan currently serves as Chief of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. While leading a group of 18 surgeons, he oversees vascular care across a health system of 8 hospitals in a city of 6 million people with a focus on medical education, including a collaborative approach for quality and new technology.

His professional societies include President of the APDVS, Vice President of the SCVS, and Secretary-Treasurer of Southern Association for Vascular Surgery.

Frederico Bastos Gonçalves, MD, PhD, FEBVS, was born in Lisbon, Portugal.

In 2010 he concluded the specialization in Angiology and Vascular Surgery. Since 2014 he is an Auxiliary Professor at the NOVA Medical School, in Lisbon.

He has authored several original publications on vascular disease, and is actively involved in clinical research with focus on aortic pathology. He is Secretary-General of the Portuguese Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery and Editorial Board member of the EJVES.

Mr Mark Welch is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at University Hospital South Manchester. A consultant since 1998, Mark has been dedicated to teaching and training, and has been Training Programme Director in general and vascular surgery in North West England for several years until very recently.

He has been a regular senior faculty member of vascular skills courses and vascular trauma courses both in the UK and Saudi Arabia. Mark was on duty on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing and will provide a personal perspective as well as a summary of his colleagues’ experiences on that night.

Hence JM Verhagen, MD PhD – Professor and Chief of Vascular Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Hence JM Verhagen did his Vascular fellowship at the department of Vascular Surgery at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. After being Associate Professor at University Medical Center Utrecht, he was appointed in 2007 as Professor and Chief of Vascular Surgery at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, also in The Netherlands.

Professor Hence Verhagen has a special interest in Aortic interventions, including cutting-edge endovascular technologies. Furthermore, his expertise includes: Carotid surgery, bowel ischaemia, peripheral interventions and vascular imaging. He has more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, is reviewer for numerous international scientific journals, and has given many scientific lectures at international conferences.

Dr Melina de la Vega

Graduate and PhD in Medicine and Surgery by the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU), trained in Angiology and Vascular Surgery in the San Carlos Clinical Hospital (Madrid, Spain), she has been working as a consultant in the Galdakao-Usansolo Hospital (Bizkaia, Spain) since 2004.

She is also an Associate Editor for the EJVES and a member of the ESVS Guidelines Committee. She is currently vicepresident of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Society for Angiology and Vascular Surgery (SEACV).

Dr Jean SABATIER graduated from medical school at the Paris VI University in 1987. He started his vascular surgery residency in Paris prior to a vascular surgery fellowship with Pr Edouard Kieffer ( Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital – Paris) until 1997.

Since 1997, he has been practicing vascular surgery at Clinique de l’Europe – Rouen.

He has been elected General Secretary of the French Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery since 2014 until 2020.

Mr Steven K Rogers, BSc (Hons), PgC, AVS.

As a Senior Clinical Vascular Scientist and Research Associate for the University of Manchester, Steven is one of only a handful of academic clinicians focusing on vascular ultrasound research in the UK. Steven manages a team of experienced vascular scientists and has recently been awarded a €2,000,000 Horizon 2020 grant.

Steven individually performs over 2500 clinical ultrasound exams each year and has become an expert in 2D and 3D vascular ultrasound, for which he is near completion of his PhD.

Dr Michel Perrin got his medical degree at the university of Lyon, France in 1957. He was qualified in vascular surgery in 1985. His work has resulted in 344

original articles, 81 book chapters and 14 books and more than 600 presentations. He was president of the French societies of Vascular Surgery and Phlebology, founding president of the European venous Forum in 2000 and he is member of the editorial board of “Phlebologie-Annales vasculaires”, “Journal des maladies vasculaires”, Phlebology, International Angiology and European Journal of vascular & endovascular surgery.

Dr Gerard O’Sullivan

Qualified from University College Cork, Ireland, 1990.

Internal Medicine training resulting in MRCPI, Galway, Ireland as a medical SHO 1991-1992.

Entered Radiology in Plymouth, UK, 1993. Transferred to St. George’s 1995.

FRCR 1997

CCST 1998

Interventional Radiology Fellowship Stanford 1998-1999.

Consultant in IR Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Centre Chicago 1999-2002.

Has been in UCH Galway since 2002. About 70% IR.

Involved with a number of medical start-ups in the Galway area.

Interested in venous disease since my Stanford days; I feel like I am still learning. Now concentrate almost exclusively on Ilio-femoral deep vein thrombosis and reconstruction. So  many unexplored avenues.

Ardent Munster and Irish rugby fan. Ex good golfer. Have been sick a few times in my life so I see things quite a bit from the patients side. Married, 4 kids. Wife is a psychiatrist. Explains a lot!

Dr Gustavo S. Oderich, M.D. is Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.  He is also consultant and Associate Program Director for Vascular and Endovascular Training Programs of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.  He is board certified in General and Vascular Surgery.  He has completed his training in General and Vascular Surgery at the Mayo Clinic.  Subsequently he completed additional training at the Cleveland Clinic.

He serves as Associate Editor of the Annals of Vascular Surgery and is reviewer or ad hoc reviewer of 34 medical and surgical journals. His bibliography includes over 400 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, editorials, or abstracts. He has two investigational IDE protocols evaluating fenestrated and branched endografts.

He serves as the National Principal Investigator for the Cook Zenith Fenestrated Plus and the Cook Thoracoabdominal Branch Stent-Graft trial and is principal investigator of over 20 industry-sponsored device trials.  His areas of interest are complex aortic pathology, fenestrated and branched stent grafts, and mesenteric revascularization.

Lars Norgren MD,PhD,FRCS,FAHA

Emeritus Professor of Surgical Sciences, former Professor and Chair of Surgery at Örebro University, Sweden. Former Director of Research, Örebro University Hospital, Professor of Vascular Surgery, Lund University and NTNU Trondheim. Past President of ESVS (1997- “20 years Anniversary!”).

Main research interests in Metabolism and Inflammation in Surgical and Vascular Disease and in treatment of Critical Limb Ischemia. Co-chair of TASC (Inter-Society Guidelines for the Management of PAD), Executive and Steering Committee member / chair on multiple clinical trials.

Alberto Muñoz, M.D.  

Professor of Surgery, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Head of Aorta and Vascular Surgery Unit Clinica Palermo- Clinica Vascular de Bogota Secretary General World Federation Vascular Soicieties

Past President of Latinamerican Association Vascular Surgery and Angiology

Interest in aortic surgery, peripheral arterial disease, vascular access for hemodialisys and carotid body tumor. Developed in Colombia a program for limb salvage based on duplex scanning, distal bypass surgery, angioplasty and wound care. Promoted training in Vascular Surgery as an independent specialty in Colombia.

Joseph L. Mills, M.D. is a board certified vascular surgeon in Houston. Dr. Mills earned his medical degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his surgical internship and residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas.

He went on to train in Vascular Surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, and also completed a senior fellowship in Endovascular Surgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Among his great many honors, he has served as president of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, president of the Western Vascular Society, president of the Association of Program Directors

Jean-Baptiste Michel, MD, PhD, Vascular Surgeon, Research Director.

1975-1996: Resident in  Paris Hospitals, Assistant vascular surgeon, Vascular surgeon. 1985-today: Researcher, Research Director 2^d, 1^st, exceptional classes & Emeritus. Director of the CV Inserm research unit, University Hospital Xavier Bichat, 75018 Paris, for 17 years.

Coordinator EU FP-7, FAD (Fighting Aneurysmal Diseases). EU coordinator of the Leducq Fundation, TransAtlantic Network of Excellence in Atherothrombosis.

 Editorial boards of CardioVascular Research and ATVB; Regular reviewer for Circulation, Circ. Res; J. Vasc. Surg, etc.

Cardiovascular price of the French National Academy of Sciences 2015.

480 publications, h index 70, top 10% International Researchers.

Prof Dr Gabor Menyhei,  Professor of Vascular Surgery and Head of the Department  at the University Medical School of Pecs, Hungary and Past President of the Hungarian Society for Angiology and Vascular Surgery.

He was the Councillor for Hungary in the ESVS  between 2007 and 2010 and Chairman of the Local Organizing Committe of the ESVS Annual Meeting in Budapest in 2013.

He has been an active member of the Vascunet Group since 2006 and Chairman of Board of  the Hungarian Vascular Registry.

Dr Dominick McCabe trained in Neurology in Dublin, and subsequently at the Institute of Neurology / National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Royal Free Hospital, London.

He is currently Consultant Neurologist / Clinical Associate Professor in Neurology, and Chairperson of the Vascular Neurology Research Foundation, Department of Neurology and Stroke Service, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating The National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH) / Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland.

His research group at AMNCH / TCD has an international reputation for conducting studies on translational platelet science, haemostasis and thrombosis, and vascular imaging in patients with ischaemic cerebrovascular disease and asymptomatic and symptomatic carotid stenosis. He also has a particular interest in optimising antithrombotic therapy in this patient population via a ‘personalised medicine’ approach.

Prof. Armando Mansilha MD, PhD, FEBVS

• Professor of Angiology and Vascular Surgery of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto
• Head of the Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery at Hospital CUF Porto
• Secretary General of the Section and Board of Vascular Surgery of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS)
• ESVS 2015 LOC Chairman
• President Elect of the European Venous Forum 2016/17
• Honorary Member of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Honorary Member of the Societat Catalana d’Angiologia, Cirurgia Vascular i Endovascular

Dr Kevin Mani is associate professor of vascular surgery at Uppsala University, Sweden. Kevin leads an active research group focusing on pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of aortic disease.

He is the chair of the international vascular registry collaboration Vascunet, and has performed several national and international registry-based epidemiological studies on management of aortic disease.

Kevin serves as the associate editor of the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.

Michel S. Makaroun, MD

Co-Director, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute

Professor and UPMC Chair, Division of Vascular Surgery

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

President Elect, Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)

Dr. Makaroun trained at the American university of Beirut and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Since 1999 he has served as the Chair of Vascular Surgery at UPMC, a division of 23 faculty members and 18 vascular trainees.

He has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific manuscripts and 50 chapters. Dr. Makaroun has previously served as president of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, the Eastern Vascular society and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery.

Prof Dr Jes Lindholt

Graduated medical school in 1990 from Aarhus University, Denmark. PhD degree in 1998, and doctoral degree in medical sciences (DMSci ) in 2010.

Currently Professor of Vascular Surgery at Odense University Hospital, and adjungated professor in Vascular Epidemiology at Viborg Hospital, Aarhus University.

Head of the Cardiovascular Centre of Excellence in Southern Denmark (CAVAC)

Principal investigator of three large population based screening trials involving more than 100.000 participants.

+225 peer reviewed publications, and an H-index of 37 (Web of Science)

Ms Sarah Lewis

During my medical degree I completed a BSc in cell biology, which sparked my interest in basic science research. I am currently studying an MD(res) at UCL with my research based at the Royal Free Hospital.

Our aim is to improve functional outcomes of patients with peripheral arterial disease through increased understanding of pathological processes within the muscle, primarily muscle repair and regeneration. Our secondary focus is the role exosomes in this process and how this alters in ischaemic conditions.

Mr Tim Lees is a consultant vascular surgeon in Newcastle, UK. Within vascular surgery he has a particular interest in the investigation and management of varicose veins and complex venous disease, including vascular malformations.

He has previously chaired the Audit and Research Committee of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI) and the international vascular audit group Vascunet.

He is currently the research lead and clinical adviser to the UK NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme.

Prof Christine Kumlien is a professor and shares her time between the department of Care science, Malmö University and Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Skåne university hospital in Sweden.

She is a specialist nurse in vascular surgical nursing and her main research area concerns the care of persons with vascular surgical diseases. Other areas are development of instruments aimed to evaluate patient reported outcomes, patient safety and quality improvement.

Kim J Hodgson, MD is Professor and Chairman of the Division of Vascular Surgery at Southern Illinois University and Vice-President of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

He served as President of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery in 2004. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the inaugural VESAP-1, and continued in that role for VESAP-2 and VESAP-3.

His academic and research interests have focused on the development of endoluminal therapies for vascular disease.

Prof Stéphan Haulon

After graduating from medical school at the Paris VI University in 1994, Stéphan Haulon started a general and vascular surgery residency at the Lille University Hospital. This was followed by a vascular surgery fellowship in 2000. In 2002 he defended his PhD-thesis in Biomaterial research and then left France to do a research endovascular fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, under the supervision of Dr. Roy K. Greenberg.

In 2003 he returned to Lille as a staff vascular surgeon at the University Hospital. In 2006 he was appointed Professor of Vascular Surgery. In 2009 he was invited to chair the vascular surgical department. He is now chairman of the Aortic centre at Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Université Paris Sud.

Stéphan’s main interest is in aortic surgery, particularly the endovascular treatment of complex thoraco-abdominal, arch aortic aneurysms and dissections, and intra-operative imaging applications. He has published extensively in the international peer review literature.

He has been using Echo-guided Foam Sclerotherapy for more almost 20 years to treat all kinds of varicose veins, from saphenous veins to recurrent varicose veins.

His main field of research is the assessment and the prevention of the potential side effects of foam sclerotherapy.

He works in a private surgery in France.

He is past-President of the European Venous Forum, past-President of the French Society of Phlebology, invited Professor at the “Diplôme Universitaire of Phlebology” in Paris, honorary member of several societies of phlebology worldwide and honorary Professor of the University del Salvador (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Filipe Fernandes, PhD

Clinical Vascular Scientist/Vascular Sonographer currently working in the Vascular Laboratory at King’s College Hospital in London and also participating as Honorary Lecturer in the Vascular Ultrasound MSc at King’s College London.

Began his career in Lisbon (Portugal) after completing a Bachelor degree in Cardiopneumology (2003), a Masters in Biophysics (2009) and a Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering (2017). Since his move to London, he obtained the title of Accredited Vascular Scientist by the Society for Vascular Technology of Great Britain and Ireland.

Anna Ericsson received her nursing degree in 2004. Her health care career started at the vascular ward at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö and since then she has had a special interest for patients with vascular diseases.

In 2011 she became a registered anesthetic nurse, with a focus in caring for vascular patients undergoing surgical procedures. Currently she is a PhD candidate at The Hongkong Polytechnic University in collaboration with Malmö University and her research revolves around the vascular patients.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Hans-Henning Eckstein

Hans-Henning Eckstein is a full professor for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany.

He served as the president of the UEMS Board and Section of Vascular Surgery (2012 – 2015), the German Vascular Society (DGG, 2009 – 2010) and the VASCULAR INTERNATIONAL foundation.

Dr. Eckstein is a dedicated academic vascular surgeon with interests in mechanobiological interactions and molecular imaging of aortic aneurysms and carotid artery disease and vascular health care research in Germany.

Dr. Holger Diener is a general surgeon, a vascular specialist and wound specialist. He completed his degree in medicine at the University of Heidelberg and Würzburg. Since 2009 he is consultant at the Department of vascular medicine at the University of Hamburg.

Technical and scientific steering of research projects comprise vascular infections, replacement of infected prosthetic grafts by allografts and wound healing.

Holger Diener is management board member of the German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine, Board member of Commission for Wounds and of Commission for Infection of the German Society of Vascular Surgery.

Additionally he is co-chair of the European Society of Vascular Surgeons´ Guidelines for Vascular graft Infections, member of the German Guidelines for   Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Surgery and Member of the German Guidelines for Wounds.

Marco De Carlo MD, PhD

I am Vice-Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Professor at the School of Specialization in Cardiology of Pisa University.

I am active in clinical research, in particular in the field of interventional treatment of coronary artery disease, carotid and peripheral artery disease, and valvular heart disease.

I am the Chairman of the Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology.

I authored 127 peer-reviewed papers.

Dr. Darling oversees one of the largest vascular care networks in the United States.

He has participated in over 60 clinical research trials for carotid disease, arterial disease, open and endovascular therapies for AAA disease, published over 300 papers & book chapters, and lectured extensively around the world.

He has held multiple leadership positions in national & regional medical societies, most recently President of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Dr. Cronenwett is Professor of Surgery and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

He is Past-President of the Society for Vascular Surgery and Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Vascular Surgery and Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery Textbook.

He was the founding Medical Director of the SVS Vascular Quality Initiative and in 2016 received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Dr. Michael Conte is Professor and Chief of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Conte’s clinical interests include diseases of the aorta and peripheral artery disease (PAD). He is internationally recognized as a clinicianscientist and has led practice guideline efforts in PAD for the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Dr. Conte’s research is focused on vascular repair and the development of new molecular approaches to improve treatment outcomes in PAD.

Dr Anthony J. Comerota –  MD, FACS, FACC

Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan received his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine, general surgery residency at Temple University Hospital and vascular surgery fellowship at Good Samaritan Hospital.

At Temple, he served as a faculty member, Chief of Vascular Surgery, and Program Director in General and Vascular Surgery. Dr. Comerota served as Director of the Jobst Vascular Institute from 2002-2015 and Executive Director of Research, ProMedica and Jobst Vascular Institute from 2015-2016.

Prof Martin Björck – Professor of Vascular Surgery, Institution of Surgical Sciences, Department of Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden. (One of two full professors (chairs) in VS in the country.) Uppsala University, is the oldest University of Northern Europe, founded 1477.

Publication of approximately 185 original articles as well as 90 review articles and book-chapters, 242 “hits”.in Pub Med. Hirsch index = 35, six were cited >100 times.

Supervisor of thirteen PhD students who completed their thesis, another twelve are underway.

Member of six Editorial Boards including the British Journal of Surgery and the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, where he is was associate editor.

Research funds from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Heart and Lung foundation, Uppsala University, and others. In all, approximately one million Euros/year. A member of the ethics committee of the Swedish research council, of the regional ethics committee, and has investigated suspected research misconduct.

President of the ESVS 2016-2017.

Dr Varinder Singh Bedi (NM)

He enhanced his skills in three Vascular Surgery centres across Germany (Katharinen Hospital, Stuttgart; University of Cologne and Evangelical Krankenhaus,Mulheim).

He served the Indian Navy for 30 years as a Surgeon and Vascular Surgeon, following which he joined Sir Ganga Ram Hospital as Chairman of the Department.

He is the Past President of the Vascular Society of India and Past President of WFVS (World Federation of Vascular Societies). He has been bestowed with honorary corresponding membership of the German Vascular Society.

Besides Aortic Aneurysm management, he has one of the largest series of Eversion Endarterectomies   for Carotid Stenosis in India.

Dr Jean Pierre Becquemin M.D.

Vascular Surgeon affiliated  at the Vascular Institute of Paul D’ Egine Hospital , Champigny sur Marne , 94500 France. He is Professor of Vascular Surgery, former Head of the Cardiac and Vascular and Endovascular Department of Henri Mondor Hospital, University Paris Est, Creteil.

Main interests : alternative techniques to open surgery, aortic aneurysm, EVAR, TEVAR , F EVAR and B EVAR , carotid surgery and lower limb ischemia .

Member of all the major vascular societies, ESVS, SVS, ISVS, SCVE. Chairman of CACVS which is the major post graduate meeting held in France since 1992.

Publications: 296 papers in peer-review journals, 201 book chapters and/or non peer review journals . > 150 oral presentations at national and international meetings over the last 10 years.

Prof Stefan Acosta 

Professor of Vascular Surgery at Lund University.

Senior consultant at Vascular Centre, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Skåne University Hospital.

Supervised eight PhD students to dissertation and currently supervising five PhD students

Specialist in Vascular Surgery, Surgery and Urology

Expert in intestinal ischaemia, open abdomen and negative pressure wound therapy

Prof. Dr. Tankut Akay

FACS (Fellow of American College of Surgeons)
1979 – 1990 TED Ankara College
1992- 1998 Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine
1998- 2003 Baskent University Faculty of Medicine Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Residency
2003- 2005 instructor at Baskent University
2005- 2006 Gulhane Military Medical Academy Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
2006-2007 Baskent University Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Assistant Professor
2008 fellowship in Salzburg Landesklinik Department of Vascular Surgery
Turkish councellor and Executive Comitee Member in European Society of Vascular Surgeons in Training (EVST) between 2008-2012
2008- 2014 Associate Professor in Baskent University Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
2014- now Professor in Baskent University Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
2015-2017 Turkish Councellor of ESVS

Special interests
– carotid artery surgery
– AAA and TAA repair (open and endovascular)
– venous surgery
– peripheric arterial surgery

Prof Anders Wanhainen, MD, PhD, is professor of Surgery and head of the Vascular Surgical Research Group at the Uppsala University, and Chief of the Department of Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.

Professor Wanhainen is a general and vascular surgeon who specializes in advanced open and endovascular surgery of complex aortic aneurysms and dissections. He has served as president of the Swedish Society for Vascular Surgery and is currently a council member of the European Society for Vascular Surgery.

Professor Wanhainen’s research interests include epidemiological and clinical aspects of aortic diseases, with special focus on pathophysiology, screening, surgical/endovascular repair, and medical treatment. He has authored more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and textbooks, and is the supervisor for 20 PhD-students, seven who completed their PhD. Professor Wanhainen is principal investigator of several clinical trials and has been awarded The Swedish Surgical Society’s “Great Surgical Research Prize”.

Isabelle Van Herzeele is an (endo)vascular surgeon and Associate Professor at the Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium.

She trained at Ghent University Hospital and at St. Mary’s Hospital, London, UK and by close collaboration between these two centers, finished her PhD “Virtual Reality Endovascular Simulation: Ready for training?” in 2009.

She continues to focus on research about endovascular training supported by the Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders, Belgium.

Since Dec 2016 she became an active member of the ETC of ESVS to offer high-quality endovascular workshops in close collaboration with Jonas Eiberg.

Professor A. Ross Naylor MBChB, MD, FRCS(Ed), FRCS(Eng) – Leicester Royal Infirmary

Graduated Aberdeen (MBChB 1981, MD 1990) and underwent surgical training in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Leicester. Appointed Consultant Vascular Surgeon in 1993 and Professor of Vascular Surgery in 2003.

Research interests include monitoring & quality control during carotid surgery, antiplatelet and antithrombotic regimens for preventing post-operative thrombosis and mediators of acute change in carotid plaque morphology.

He is a co-Editor of two vascular textbooks, a (co)author of 469 papers and 71 book chapters (predominantly on cerebral vascular disease), Professor Naylor has served on the Editorial Boards of the British Journal of Surgery, the Journal of Vascular Surgery and the European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery.

He is co-chairman of the ESVS carotid and vertebral artery guidelines, which will be published in September 2017. He is a past Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and a Past-President of the Vascular Society of Great Britain & Ireland.

Bijan Modarai PhD FRCS – Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and King’s College London, United Kingdom

Bijan Modarai qualified in medicine from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in 1998 and obtained a PhD in 2006. He completed his vascular surgical training in London and as a visiting Fellow at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in 2012. Since then he has led a translational programme of vascular research, producing over 50 high impact publications with several national/international prizes awarded to his research team.

He was made Reader in Vascular Surgery in 2015 and appointed as a Hunterian Professor by The Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2016. He was awarded a Senior Fellowship by the British Heart Foundation in 2017.

His clinical practice is focused on complex endovascular aortic repair which he also uses to inform his translational research programme.

Mr Modarai sits on the Council of the British Society for Endovascular Therapy and examines for the Fellowship of European Board of Vascular Surgery.

Dr Marianne De Maeseneer is a Belgian vascular surgeon, specialized in Phlebology (Erasmus MC,  Rotterdam, Netherlands).

She published her PhD thesis on ‘recurrent varicose veins after surgical treatment’ in 2005. She has authored and co-authored over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

She acted as Reviewer Coordinator for the recently published (2015) ESVS guidelines on management of chronic venous disease, publihed. She acts as Associate Editor for the European Journal for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, handling venous manuscripts. She is one of the UIP vice-presidents.

Dr Peter Gloviczki – Joe M. and Ruth Roberts Professor of Surgery (Emeritus), Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic, USA

Peter Gloviczki, MD, FACS, is the Joe M. and Ruth Roberts Professor of Surgery (Emeritus) of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He served as Division Chair (2000 -2010) and as Director of the Mayo Clinic Gonda Vascular Center (2002 – 2010). Dr. Gloviczki is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) Publications.

Dr. Gloviczki is Past President of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), of the World Federation of Vascular Societies, American Venous Forum (AVF), Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS), International Union of Angiology (IUA), Vascular Disease Foundation, the American Venous Forum Foundation, the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society, the Gulf Coast Vascular Society, and served as Honorary President of the Société Francaise D’Angéologie.

Dr. Gloviczki was the first recipient of the Edwin Jack Wylie Traveling Fellowship Award of the SVS. He received the Howard Kramer Gray Travel Award at Mayo Clinic, the Allastair Karmody Essay Award of the SCVS and the Founder’s Award of the AVF. He has been listed for many years in The Best Doctors in America and in America’s Top Doctors He was named “Teacher of the Year” several times by the vascular surgery fellows.

Dr. Gloviczki earned his medical degree in 1972 at Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest, Hungary where he completed his general and vascular surgery training. Dr. Gloviczki had extensive clinical practice that included all areas of vascular surgery: arterial, venous and lymphatic. While on the staff at Mayo Clinic, he performed over 10,000 operations.

He has a special interest in aortic, mesenteric, and renovascular surgery, critical limb ischemia and he is an expert in reconstruction of large veins, in endoscopic perforator vein surgery, vascular malformations, chronic venous insufficiency, in lymphatic and chylous disorders. He is author of 419 full-length peer-reviewed articles, more than 200 book chapters, editorials and reviews and has given over 600 presentations. He mentored 85 categorical vascular surgery fellows and 25 research fellows.

Prof Janet Powell – Professor of Vascular Biology & Medicine at Imperial College

I studied medicine in the USA (after obtaining a PhD in Biophysics in London), before returning to Britain where I completed clinical training in London in pathology, specialising in cardiovascular pathology. The cause and management of abdominal aortic aneurysms is my major research interest as well as the evidence wider base for vascular practice. I have been an Associate Editor of EJVES and am an Associate Editor of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology and have supervised 28 candidates for higher degrees.

Description – This seminar dealing with clinical leadership is for vascular surgeons with an ambition of becoming dept. leaders, head of department or chairman and for existing leaders who wish to seek inspiration or discuss issues from their own experience. The seminar will discuss how you make your colleagues or doctoral staff work for their department. Rather than working as individuals with their own patients more synergy and development may evolve if everybody engages in what is best for the department and its patients. Experienced leaders will discuss their experience with leadership and which models they have worked with and what that may result in.

Seminar Agenda

One hour seminar on how to run and develop a good department

• Introduction – Can good leadership make a difference to the core product of your department – better patient treatment
  Henrik Sillesen, Denmark
• How do you as a superb surgeon/vascular physician also become a good department leader?
  Sebastian Debus, Germany
• Why does good leadership result in satisfied colleagues and co-workers?
  Michael Jacobs, UK
• What is in it for you?
  Henrik Sillesen, Denmark
• Panel discussion With Audience

The European Research Council is an institution, invented by the European Union, which was created to gain opportunities for research. Starting- , consolidator – and advanced grants are available for various areas in clinical and basic research. You should inform yourself about these extraordinary options – you might identify your ideal funding source!

Don´t miss this unique opportunity! An expert from the ERC will elucidate tips, tricks and pitfalls for your application: this is the ideal time to address your questions!

Description
Who should care for the outpatient? Vascular nurses can contribute much more than you may think!
In this joint seminar with Vascular Nurses and Vascular Surgeons different models of outpatient clinics will be presented and discussed. The Nurse Driven Wound Clinic will be a topic as well as the Diabetic Foot Clinic, Programs on Secondary Prevention and Follow Up Management after invasive treatment. You will get new insights for your own institution. Leading experts are invited and present their outpatient models – your questions are most welcome! Don´t miss this unique opportunity!

Seminar Agenda

• A Nurse-driven Wound Clinic
  Myriam Seifert, Germany & Holger Diener, Germany
• Development in Secondary Prevention
  Margit Roed, Denmark
• Nurse-Led Open Clinic For Follow Up After Vascular Intervention In Patients With PAD
• Rebecka Striberger, Sweden
• Nurse-led EVAR Surveillance Clinic
• Louise Allen, United Kingdom
• Panel Discussion with Audience

Chairs: Philippe Kolh, Belgium, Florian Dick, Switzerland & Peter Gloviczki, USA

• What are the Papers We are Looking for to Publish in the EJVES and Why?
  Philippe Kolh, Belgium
• What Papers Have the Best Chance to Get into the JVS Journals?
  Peter Gloviczki, USA
• The Secrets of a Successful Clinical Research Paper
  Florian Dick, Switzerland
• The Essentials of a Successful Basic Science Paper
  Melina Vega de Ceniga, Spain
• What Statistics Do We Need, How to Present your Data to Please your Reviewers and Win Your Readers?
  Kevin Mani, Sweden
• How to Use Society and National Registries to Write a Successful Paper
  Peter Lawrence, USA
• The Advantages of Writing a Successful Paper with Data of the Swedish Vascular Registry, the VASCUNET and the International Consortium of Vascular Registries
  Maarit Venermo, Finland
• Panel Discussion

Chairs: Jonothan Earnshaw, United Kingdom & Anders Wanhainen, Sweden

• Does AAA Screening Save Lives?
  Frank Lederle, Minneapolis, USA
• Screening in Sweden
  Anders Wanhainen, Uppsala, Sweden
• Screening in the UK
  Jonothan Earnshaw, Gloucester, UK
• Screening In the Rest of the World
  Tim Lees, Newcastle, UK
• Referral Thresholds
  Sverker Svensjö, Falun, Sweden
• Cardiovascular Risk Factors
  Matt Bown, Leicester, UK
• Should We Extend the Scope? (e.g. ECG & Dopplers)
  Jes Lindholt, Viborg, Denmark
• Panel Discussion

This update session includes several quick fire presentations from multiple countries on their current state of AAA screening from planning through to established programmes. This will be followed by presentations on novel research including screening in women and the sub-aneurysmal aorta.

Chairs: Tim Lees, UK, Martin Björck, Sweden & Gabor Menyhei, Hungary

Speakers: 

• Methodology, Definitions, Epidemiology
  Martin Björck, Sweden
• Anatomy, Pathophysiology, Intestinal Salvage and the Patient’s Perspective
  Tim Lees, UK
• Acute Arterial Ischaemia: Recommendations Regarding Diagnosis
  Stefan Acosta, Sweden
• Acute Arterial Ischaemia: Recommendations Regarding Treatment
  Tim Lees, UK
• Diagnosis of Chronic Arterial Mesenteric Ischaemia, the Recommendations
  Jeroen Kolkman, The Netherlands
• Treatment of Chronic Arterial Mesenteric Ischaemia, the Recommendations
  Gustavo Oderich, USA
• Non-Occlusive Mesenteric Ischaemia (NOMI)
  Martin Björck, Sweden
• Venous Mesenteric Ischaemia
  Jeroen Kolkman, The Netherlands
• Mesenteric Arterial Aneurysms
  Frederico Bastos Gonçalves
• Isolated Dissections of the Mesenteric Arteries
  Gabor Menyhei, Hungary

Chairs: Filipe Fernandes & Louise Allen, UK

Speakers:

• Epidemiology In Aortic Aneurysm
  Camilla Berge, Norway
• Advances in Diagnostics
  Steven Rogers, UK
• The Use Of Robotics In Aneurysm Repair & The Latest Stent Grafts
  Celia Riga, UK
• The Role Of The Nurse In Management Of Patients With Spinal Drains
  Rachael Lear, UK
• Involvement And Information Of Patients On Discharge From Hospital
  Lone Schmidt, Denmark

Chairs: Gabriel C. Inaraja Perez, Spain & Joel Sousa, Portugal

Expert Panel: 

Prof. Eric Verhoeven, The Netherlands

Prof. Armando Mansilha, Portugal

Speaker Panel:

Dr. Gabriel C. Inaraja Perez, Spain

Dr. Mario Vieira, Italy

Dr. Vincent Jongkind, The Netherlands

Chairs: Riika Tulamo, Finland, Dimitar Petkov, Bulgaria & Sandip Nandhra, United Kingdom

EVST ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY

• Report of the EVST Secretary General – Dr. Vincent Jongkind, The Netherlands

CASE DISCUSSIONS

• Salvage Of A Failing Evar Using The Off-The-Shelf T-Branch
  Gino Gemayel, Gabriel Verdon*, Nicolas Murith, Christoph Huber (Switzerland)
  
• Late Sterile Cyst Formation Following Use Of Bioglue In Carotid Endarterectomy
  Aminder Singh*, Lucy Wales (United Kingdom)
  
• Intravascular Fasciitis Presenting As Recurrent Left Leg Deep Venous Thrombosis
  Payam Salehi*, Phung N Le, Rima  Kanhoush (United States)
  
• Conservative Treatment Of Thrombosed Type Acute Aortic Dissection Involving The Ascending Aorta Successfully Leads To Remodeling
  Eva Bromfield-Jansen*, Vincent Jongkind, Rutger Lelij, Willem Wisselink (Netherlands)
• Managment Of Complex Traumatic Arteriovenous Fistulas With Endovascular Techniques. Experiencie In A Military Trauma Hospital
  Luis Fernando Garcia*, Eugenia Lopez (Colombia)
  
• Laparoscopic Treatment Of Splenic Artery Aneurysm – Video Presentation And Review Of The Literature
  Marco Horn*, Franziska Buthut, Anna-Catharina Hoefer, Henriette Deichmann, Caroline Rodd, Marcus Wiedner, Tobias Keck, Markus Kleemann (Germany)
• Successful Endovascular Treatment Of Bilateral Carotid Dissection In A Near-Hanging Victim
  Viviana Mendes Manuel* (Portugal)
  
• Rupture Despite In-Situ Repair Of A Secondary Aortoenteric Fistula With Autologous Femoral Veins
  Gilles Uijtterhaegen*, Nathalie Moreels, Isabelle Van Herzeele, Frank Vermassen (Belgium)
  
• Tevar-Deployment Based On Digital Touch In Case Of Descending Aortic Rupture
  Alexander Croo*, Nathalie Moreels, Liesbeth Desender, Frank Vermassen (Belgium)
• Management Of Short And Mid Term Complications Of Massive Thromboembolism Event During P-Evar In A “Shaggy Aorta”
  Fernando Gallardo*, Rubén Rodriguez Carvajal, Rocio Lainez, Patricia Hollstein, Rafael Ruiz Orellana (Spain)
• The Use Of Begraft® Balloon-Expandable Covered Stents As Cerab Technique For The Treatment Of Aorto-Iliac Aortic Disease
  Lukas Briner, Alban Longchamp, Celine Dubuis, Jean-Marc Corpataux, Sebastien Deglise* (Switzerland)

*Presenting Authors

Moderators: Victor Aboyans, France and Jean-Baptiste Ricco, France

Speakers:

• Carotid Artery Disease
  A. Ross Naylor, United Kingdom
• Mesenteric Artery Disease
  Martin Björck, Sweden
• Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia of the Lower Limbs
  Jean-Baptiste Ricco, France
• Cardiac Conditions in PAD Patients
  Victor Aboyans, France
• Multisite Artery Disease
  Carlo de Marco, Italy

Chairs: Rachael Lear & Carlos Pinho, UK

Speakers:

• A Surgeon’s Perspective
  Matthieu Arsicot, France
• A Nurse’s Perspective
  Corinne Chapelut, France
• A Dietitian’s Perspective
  Emeline Viana, France
• Panel Discussion – Aspects Accross Europe

Chairs: Louise Allen, UK & Margit Roed, Denmark

Speakers:

• Welcome to Lyon & Introduction of the ENVNS Programme
  Louise Allen, UK
• The Joyride From Being A Vascular Nurse To A Professor In Vascular Nursing
  Christine Kumlien, Sweden
• How to Write an Abstract
  Steven Rogers, UK
• Personal Experiences Of Undertaking Research
  Camilla Berge, Norway
• To Be A Doctoral Student
  Rachael Lear, UK
• Psychosocial Consequences In Men Taking Part In A National Screening Program For Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
  Anna Ericsson, Sweden

Find an answer to your controversial Clinical Questions – Can a clinical trial help? how many patients will you need; who will pay and who can design and run it? What tips will encourage recruitment? Prof Haliday, the PI of the renowned ACST trials has invited a dedicated panel of well known and highly experienced panelists, including Eric Verhoeven (Netherlands), Matthew Menard (USA), Janet Powell (UK) and Fabio Verzini (Italy).

The Expert panel at this Seminar will help clarify new questions and discuss with you how to succeed in making large (and small) trials work! Don´t miss this extraordinary opportunity – you will get important insights for planning of your own upcoming trial!

Description – Vascular Surgery is a very dynamic, but young speciality in many European countries. How about its position in the Academic world? Are medical students taught vascular surgery? What are the conditions for performing research? High level academic research needs academic resources, funding, structural independence from neighboring specialties (i.e. general surgery, heart surgery) – but on the other hand, collaboration with associated scientists very often increases value and quality. We have asked Academic leaders from many European countries to present the current situation in their country. What are the problems and what are the strategies for success. Success stories or role models? We think we can learn from each other and move forward faster if together.

Chaired by Prof. Martin Björck Professor of Vascular Surgery, Institution of Surgical Sciences, Department of Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden. (One of two full professors (chairs) in VS in the country.) Uppsala University, is the oldest University of Northern Europe, founded 1477. Publication of approximately 185 original articles as well as 90 review articles and book-chapters, 242 “hits”.in Pub Med. Hirsch index = 35, six were cited >100 times. Supervisor of thirteen PhD students who completed their thesis, another twelve are underway. Member of six Editorial Boards including the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (where he was an associate editor) and the British Journal of Surgery.  Research funds from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Heart and Lung foundation, Uppsala University, and others. In all, approximately one million Euros/year. A member of the ethics committee of the Swedish research council, of the regional ethics committee, and has investigated suspected research misconduct. President of the ESVS 2016-2017.

Chairs: Filipe Fernandes and Carlos Pinho, United Kingdom

Agenda:

• Welcome to Session
  – Introduction of Faculty
  – Aims of Session
• Presentation: Carotid and Vertebral Arteries Duplex Scan
  – Role of the vascular sonographer
  – Brief outline of scan protocol
  – Recording images, image optimisation, image taking protocol, plaque classification, velocity criteria, etc.
• Case Studies
  – Types of diseases, dissection, aneurysm, carotid body tumour, steal syndromes, what to record/ describe, what is important to report?
• Live Demonstration of Carotid and Vertebral Arteries Scan
  – Discussion/demonstration around ergonomics, scan positions
  – Demonstrate useful ultrasound controls such as Power Doppler, changing chroma, reducing spectral broadening, dual imaging, overcoming artefacts, etc.
• Open Forum
  – Discussion about carotid velocity criteria
  – Opportunity to ask questions
• Summary
  – Survey
  – Suggestions for future ultrasound session topics
  – Invitation to participate/watch in the following hands-on session
  
• Hands-On Session

Chairs: Henrik Sillesen, Denmark

Speakers:

Trials Reporting Final Results

• The Lama Trial – A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Endovenous Laser Ablation Versus Mechanochemical Ablation In The Treatment Of Superficial Venous Incompetence
  Clement Leung, United Kingdom
• The Viborg Vascular (VIVA) Screening Trial: Five Year Results from a Large Population-Based Randomised Triple Vascular Screening Trial
  Jes Lindholt, Denmark
• Long-Term Results of the OVER Trial
  Frank Lederle, USA
• Natural History And Outcomes Of Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia In The Euclid Trial
  Lars Norgren, Sweden
• ATTRACT
  Anthony Comerota, Spain
• Re-Interventions After Repair Of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Mid-Term Results Of The Improve Trial
  Janet Powell, UK
• TIC AAA
  Anders Wanhainen, Sweden
• The AIDA Trial
  Holger Diener, Germany

Ongoing Trial Updates

• ACST2 Trial
  Alison Halliday, UK
• Best CLI Trial
  Matthew Menard, USA
• BASIL 2/3 Trial
  Andrew Bradbury, UK

Chairs: Tina Cohnert, Austria & Alison Halliday, United Kingdom

VascForward is the ESVS career initiative for young professionals that offers networking, individual skills development and research platform. The session will open with a lecture on Training in Vascular Surgery – Current Situation and Future Concepts, by Professor Isabelle Van Herzeele (Belgium), followed by an interactive discussion on career paths. Lunch nboxes will be at the disposal of those attending the session.

Chairs: Philippe Kolh, Belgium, Andrew Bradbury, UK & Michael Conte, USA

Speakers:

• Introduction – Guideline Process, Rationale and Scope
  Florian Dick, Switzerland & Michael Conte, USA
• Definitions, Target Population and Staging
  Andrew Bradbury, UK & Joe Mills, USA
• Diagnosis and Evaluation
  Jean-Baptiste Ricco, France
• Global Anatomy Staging System (GLASS) for CLTI
  Joe White, USA
• Decision Framework and Strategies for Revascularization
  Michael Conte, USA
• Meaningful Endpoints and Interdisciplinary team in CLTI
  Philippe Kolh, Belgium
• Panel Discussion

Chairs: Alison Halliday, ESVS President-elect, UK and Clement Darling, SVS President, USA

Speakers:

DEBATE 1 – Active Endovascular Treatment of Acute Iliofemoral DVT is Preferred over Conservative Treatment

• PRO Stephen Black, United Kingdom
• CON Kim Hodgson, SVS Vice President, USA

DEBATE 2 – A 64 Year Old Man with a 48 mm AAA Should be Offered EVAR

• PRO Will Jordan, USA
• CON Kevin Mani, Sweden

DEBATE 3 – Type II Endoleak After EVAR Without Expansion of the Anerysm is Harmless and Should Not Be Treated

• PRO Hence Verhagen, The Netherlands
• CON Michel Makaroun, USA

Chairs: Martin Björck, ESVS President, Jean Sabatier, SCVE Secretary General and Jean-Luc Magne, SCVE Past President

Speakers:

• History of the French Vascular Surgery & Pioneers
  Nabil Chakfe, France
• Endofibrosis Iliac in Athletes
  Patrick Feugier, France
• What we Recently Learnt from Experimental Models of Aneurysm
  Jean-Baptiste Michel, France
• Arterial Allografts
  Laurent Chiche, France
• RCT’s Comparing Evar and Open Surgery:  15 Years Later,  Are the Conclusions Obsolete?
  Jean-Pierre Becquemin, France
• Endovascular Treatment of Arch and TAAA Chronic Dissections
  Stephan Haulon, France
• Crossroads: Reflections on the Past Three Decades
  Jean-Baptiste Ricco, France
• Mini-Invasive Aortic Surgery
  Marc Coggia, France
• Reconstruction Surgery in Deep Venous Disease and Endoluminal Surgery in Superficial Venous Disease
  Philippe Nicolini & Michel Perrin, France

Description – This is an important seminar for all professionals involved with fluoroscopically guided procedures. Opinion leaders from around the world will outline why occupational radiation exposure is increasingly of concern, discuss essential practices to help minimise exposure in the operating room and report on cutting edge guidance techniques for carrying out endovascular interventions that may circumvent the need for radiation. It is hoped that vascular interventionists and allied staff will join this seminar to share their attitudes towards occupational radiation exposure and learn best practice.

Meet the Presenter – Bijan Modarai, PhD FRCS qualified in medicine from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in 1998 and obtained a PhD in 2006. He completed his vascular surgical training in London and as a visiting Fellow at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in 2012. Since then he has led a translational programme of vascular research, producing over 50 high impact publications with several national/international prizes awarded to his research team. He was made Reader in Vascular Surgery in 2015 and appointed as a Hunterian Professor by The Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2016. He was awarded a Senior Fellowship by the British Heart Foundation in 2017. His clinical practice is focused on complex endovascular aortic repair and he uses this workload to inform novel assessment of the effects of radiation exposure in the operating room and develop strategies to minimise exposure. Mr Modarai sits on the Councils of the British Society for Endovascular Therapy and examines for the Fellowship of European Board of Vascular Surgery.

Tara Mastracci: Why radiation safety matters (6mins)

Bijan Modarai: Biodosimetry and the physiological response to radiation exposure (6mins)

Stephan Haulon: Imaging protocols that minimise radiation dose (6mins)

Discussion: 12 mins

Mark Farber: The hybrid OR of the future: Can we reduce radiation exposure to zero (6mins)

Celia Riga: Radiation exposure during complex endo procedures: Leave it to the robot (6mins)

Kevin Mani: Radiation protection equipment: Which are effective? (6mins)

Discussion: 12 mins

Chair: Nabil Chakfe, France

• In this session, the authors of the 12 top-scored posters selected on Wednesday, 20 September will deliver a short oral presentation of their research. The three winners of the Best ESVS Posters will be announced during the Closing Ceremony at 14:00.

Chairs: Janet Powell, UK and Peter Gloviczki, USA

• How it All Began
  Martin Björck, Sweden
• The First Vascunet Reports: How they Affected Quality of AAA Repair in the UK
  Tim Lees, United Kingdom
• Registry Collaboration Going Global: the ICVR experience
  Jack Cronenwett, United States

• Global Experience in Improving the Quality of AAA Repair: Now and in the Future
  Kevin Mani, Sweden
• Commentary by Janet Powell

• Global Experience in Improving the Quality of Treating Carotid Artery Stenosis: Now and in the Future
  Maarit Venermo, Finland
• Commentary by Ross Naylor

• Global Experience in Improving the Quality of Treating Lower Extremity Arterial Disease: Now and in the Future
  Sebastian Debus, Germany
• Commentary by Peter Gloviczki

What are Fast-Track Oral Presentations Sessions?

Fast Track Oral Presentation Sessions are each constituted of 20 short oral presentations, selected amongst the 602 submitted abstracts for their high-level scientific value. A total of eight sessions will run on Tuesday, 19 September.

Each session will be chaired by a Jury of five experts. Presenters will have 4 minutes of presentation and 2 minutes to answer the questions from the Jury.
The top-scored presentations from each session will be selected to present an extended version of their abstract in one of the Plenary Scientific Sessions on Thursday, 21 or Friday, 22 September.

Moderators: Philippe Kolh, Belgium and Florian Dick, Switzerland

Speakers:

• Open Versus Endovascular Revascularization For The Treatment Of Acute Lower Limb Ischaemia: A Nationwide Cohort Study
  Olivia Grip*, Anders Wanhainen, Karl Michaëlsson, Lars Lindhagen, Martin Björck (Sweden)
  
• Comparison Of Risk Factor Profiles Of Ascending And Descending Aortic Dilatations. A Substudy From The Population-Based Randomized Dancavas Trial
  Lasse Mollegaard Obel*, Axel Cosmus Diederichsen, Flemming Hald Steffensen, Jess Lambrechtsen, Martin Busk, Grazina Urbonaviciene, Kenneth Egstrup, Anders Sarkisian Bovling, Jes Sanddal Lindholt (Denmark)
  
• Development Of A Long Autologous Small-Caliber Biotube Vascular Graft
  Yasuhide Nakayama*, Maya Furukoshi, Takeshi Terazawa (Japan)
• Tomographic Ultrasound Angiography For Peripheral Artery Disease
  Steven Kristofor Rogers*, Jonathan Ghosh, Charles  McCollum (United Kingdom)
  
• Statins And Clopidogrel Increase The Survival Of Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease On All Levels Of Ankle Brachial Index And Toe Pressure
  Mirjami Laivuori*, Harri Hakovirta, Juha Sinisalo, Anders Albäck, Maarit Venermo (Finland)
  
• Cardiovascular Disease Remains The Main Cause Of Death In All Peripheral Arterial Disease Stages
  Birgitta Sigvant*, Fredrik Sartipy, Fredrik  Lundin, Eric Wahlberg (Sweden)
  
• Fenestrated/Branched Evar Is Not Cost-Effective At Two Years Compared To Open Surgery For Patients With Complex Aortic Aneurysms
  Morgane Michel*, Jean-Pierre Becquemin, Jean Marzelle, Céline Quelen, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski (France)
  
• Incidence And Clinical Significance Of Non Thrombotic Iliac Vein Lesions
  Vassilios Zymvragoudakis*, Stavros Spiliopoulos, Konstantinos Moulakakis, Christopher Lattimer, George Geroulakos (Greece)
  
• Two-Year Results Of Robotic Surgery For Aorto Iliac Occlusive Disease: Current Place In Minimally Invasive Vascular Surgery
  Salma El Batti*, Jean-Marc Alsac, Pierre Julia (France)
  

*Presenting Author

Moderators: Armando Mansilha, Portugal and Philippe Nicolini, France

Speakers: 

Chronic Superficial Venous Disease

• Which Target for the Treatment of Chronic Venous Superficial Insufficiency: Immediate Results, QoL, Recurrence, Cost?
  Marianne de Maeseneer, The Netherlands
• Why Choose Foam?
  Jean-Luc Gillet, France
• Why Choose RFA?
  Philippe Nicolini, France
• Why Choose Laser?
  Jean-Luc Gérard, France
• Why Choose Glu?
  Thomas Proebstle, Germany

Deep Venous Diseases

• Deep Venous Thrombosis – ATTRACT Study: Two Years Results
  Olivier Hartung, France
• Post Thrombotic Syndrome – Venous stents: What should you have ? What do you expect in the future ?
  Gerry O’Sullivan, United Kingdom
• NOACs and Updates Guidelines: Critical Reading
  Armando Mansilha, Portugal
• Deep Venous Reflux: Its Implication in the Chronic Venous Disease and in the Therapeutic Choices
  Michel Perrin, France

Moderators: Pirkka Vikatmaa, Finland and Tina Cohnert, Austria

Speakers: 

Lower Limb Bypass and PTA

• Indocyanine Green Perfusion Angiography, Is it Ready to Replace TCPO2?
  Maarit Venermo, Finland
• Intraoperative Flow Measurement, Ultrasound and Completion Angiography
  Anders Albäck, Finland

Carotid Endarterectomy

• Role of Angioscopy in Preventing Intra-Operative Stroke
  A. Ross Naylor, United Kingdom
• Intraoperative morphological control after CEA by angiography or duplex ultrasound – techniques and interpretation
  Hans-Henning Eckstein, Germany

Mesenteric Ischaemia

• Completion Control after Mesenteric Revascularization
  Stefan Acosta, Sweden

Panel Discussion

• Practical vs Optimal Completion Control?