Thursday, June 11

Registration
Room: Lower F Lobby

Breakfast Sessions

B1: The Diabetic Foot: Management Skills for the Vascular Surgeon

Room: Korbel 4

Moderators: George Andros, MD, Los Angeles Vascular Specialists, A.P.C., Los Angeles, CA; Richard F. Neville, MD, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC

6:30 am
Introduction: The Team Approach to Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Richard F. Neville, MD, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC

6:35 am
Essentials of Wound Care; Debridement, Drainage, Dressings
Christopher E. Attinger, MD, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC

6:45 am
Foot Biomechanics: Steps to Correct the Problem
David Armstrong, DPM, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

6:55 am
What if there is Concomitant Infection?
Warren Joseph, DPM, Philadelphia, PA

7:05 am
Neuropathy: What You Can’t Feel Can Hurt You
Andrew Boulton, MD, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK

7:15 am
Endoluminal Revascularization: Definitive Therapy or Prelude to a Bypass?
Joseph Mills, MD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

7:25 am
Is Distal Bypass for Ischemia Still "First Among Equals?”
Daniel G. Clair, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH

7:35 am
Panel Discussion

B2: The Design and Implementation of Hybrid Systems in the Operating Room

Room: 401/402/403/404

Moderators:  Michael Belkin, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Roy K. Greenberg, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

6:30 am
Welcome and Introduction

6:40 am
The Design and Implementation of a Hybrid Operating Room
Mark F. Fillinger, MD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

6:55 am
Hybrid Operating Rooms: Advances in Intraoperative Imaging
Edwin C. Gravereaux, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 

7:10 am
Alternative View: Hybrid Operating Rooms are Unnecessary: Modern C-Arms and Angio-Suite are More Versatile and Cost Effective
Peter R. Nelson, MD, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL

7:25 am 
Hybrid Operating Rooms: Making the Case to Hospital Administration
Christopher J. Kwolek, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

7:35 am  
Panel Discussion

8:00 am - 9:50 am

S1: William J. Von Liebig Forum

Room: Korbel 1 & 2

Moderators: G. Patrick Clagett, MD, President, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Peter F. Lawrence, MD, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
    
8:00 am
SS1. Lower Extremity Angioplasty: Impact of Practitioner Specialty and Volume on Indications and Resource Utilization
Todd R. Vogel, Viktor Y. Dombrovskiy, Paul B. Haser, Jeffrey L. Carson, Alan M. Graham,
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ

8:14 am
SS2. Outcomes of Interventions for Recurrent Disease after Endoluminal Intervention for Superficial Femoral Artery Disease
Houssan K. Younnes, Jean Bismuth, Joseph J. Naoum, Imran T. Mouhiddin, Eric K. Peden, Alan B. Lumsden, Mark G. Davies, Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX

8:28 am
SS3. Validation of the PIII CLI Risk Score for the Prediction of Amputation-Free Survival (AFS) in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia
Andres Schanzer1, Philip P Goodney2, Youfu Li1, Mohammad Eslami1, Jack Cronenwett2, Louis Messina1, Michael S Conte3, The Vascular Study Group of Northern New England
1University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA;2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH;3University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

8:42 am
SS4. Open Common Femoral Artery Endarterectomy for Lower Extremity Ischemia: Predicting the Need for Distal Limb Revascularization
Rafael D. Malgor, Joseph J. Ricotta, II, Gustavo S. Oderich, Manju Kalra, Thomas C. Bower, Audra A. Duncan, Peter Gloviczki, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

8:56 am
Video Presentation
VS1. Aortoiliac Endarterectomy in a Patient with Severe, Calcific, Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease
Patrick J. O’Hara, Tara M. Mastracci, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

9:06 am
SS5. Soluble Inflammatory and Cellular Adhesion Molecules Predict Mortality, Cardiovascular events (MACE), and Amputation-Free Survival (AFS) in Patients Undergoing Lower Extremity Vein Bypass Surgery
Christopher D Owens1, Ji Min Kim1, Nathanael D Hevelone1, Allan D Hamdan2, Joseph D raffetto3, Mark A Creager4, Michael S Conte1, 1UCSF, San Francisco, CA;2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA;3West Roxbury Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, Boston, MA;4Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

9:20 am
SS6. Preoperative Functional Status Predicts Poor Perioperative Outcomes after Infrainguinal Bypass Surgery: An NSQIP Report
Robert S Crawford, Christopher J Abularrage, Mark F Conrad, Todd R. Lancaster, Michael T. Watkins, Richard P. Cambria, Glenn M. LaMuraglia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Resident Research Prize Paper
9:34 am 
SS7. Antioxidant Therapy Reverses Impaired Graft Healing in Hypercholesterolemic Rabbits
Michael A. Rosenbaum, Keiko Miyazaki, Scott M. Colles, Linda M. Graham, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

9:50 am - 10:15 am

AVA Awards Ceremony
Room: Korbel 1 & 2 

F1: E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum
Maintenance of Certification: What It Means to Vascular Surgeons

Room: Korbel 1 & 2

Moderator: Anton N. Sidawy, MD, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC

10:15 am
Competence and its Measurement
Robert S. Rhodes, MD, The American Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA

10:25 am
Maintenance of Certification
Anton N. Sidawy, MD, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC

10:35 am
MOC Part 2 - Learning and Self Assessment
Kim J. Hodgson, MD, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, IL

10:45 am
MOC Part 3 - Cognitive Knowledge
John F. Eidt, MD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

10:55 am
MOC Part 4 - Tools for Practice Assessment
John J. Ricotta, MD, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

11:05 am
MOC Part 4 - Registries and Databases
Gregorio A. Sicard, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

11:15 am
Professional Society Contributions
James A. Schulak, MD, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

11:25 am
Panel Discussion

Noon - 1:30 pm

Lunch in Exhibit Hall
Room: Exhibit Hall F

Noon - 1:30 pm

Distinguished Fellows Luncheon
Room: 401/402/403/404

Noon - 6:30 pm

Exhibit Hall Open
Room: Exhibit Hall F

Noon - 6:30 pm

Poster Set-up
Room: Exhibit Hall F

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

General Surgery Resident/Medical Student Educational Program*
Room: 501

* Not accredited for CME credit.

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

S2: SVS Plenary Session

Room: Korbel 1 & 2

Moderators: Anton N. Sidawy, MD, President-Elect, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC; Joseph Schneider, MD, Vascular and Interventional Program of Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, IL

1:30 pm
SS8. Renal Parenchymal Preservation after Percutaneous Renal Angioplasty and Stenting
Mark G. Davies, Jean Bismuth, Joseph J. Naoum, Imran T. Mouhiddin, Eric K. Peden, Alan B. Lumsden, Methodist Debakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX

1:44 pm
SS9. Successful Management of Acute Complicated Type B Dissections with TEVAR and Adjunctive Endovascular Techniques: Malperfusion versus Rupture
Elena Y. Rakhlin, Wilson Y. Szeto, Ronald M. Fairman, Benjamin M. Jackson, G. William Moser, Edward Y. Woo, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1:58 pm
SS10. Temporary IVC Filters Usually Become Permanent except When Placed in Trauma Patients for Prophylactic Indications
Peter B. Brant-Zawadzki, Faheem Akhtar, Michelle T. Mueller, Daniel V. Kinikini, Larry W. Kraiss, Mark R. Sarfati, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2:12 pm
SS11. Aggressive Lipid-Lowering Is More Effective Than Moderate Lipid-Lowering Treatment in Carotid Plaque Stabilization
Nikolaos P. E. Kadoglou1, Nikolaos Sailer1, Anestis Moumtzouoglou1, Alkistis Kapelouzou2, Grigorios Fotiadis1, Ioulia Vitta1, Ioannis Kakisis3, Efthimios Avgerinos3, Thomas Gerasimidis1, Panayotis Karayannacos2, Christos D. Liapis1, 1Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece2Foundation of Biomedical Research,Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece3University of Athens, Athens, Greece

2:26 pm
Video Presentation
VS2. Effective Treatment of DVT with Isolated Pharmacomechanical Thrombolysis: a Single Center Report Author
Mark Gazall, Kettering Medical Centers, Grandview Medical Center, Dayton, OH

2:36 pm
SS12. Unexpected Major Role for Venous Stenting in Reflux Disease: Symptom Relief with Partial Correction of Pathology
Seshadri Raju1,2, Rikki Darcey2, Peter Neglen2, 1University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; 2River Oaks Hospital, Flowood, MS

2:50 pm
SS13. High Brachial Artery Bifurcation Is Associated With Failure of Upper Limb Autologous Arteriovenous Fistulae
Domenico Valenti, Hiren Mistry, Cornelia Junghans, Niamh Haughey, Ben Freedman, Mark Tyrrell, King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

3:04 pm
SS14. Brachial Vein Transposition Arteriovenous Fistulas for Hemodialysis Access
William C. Jennings, Matthew J. Sideman, Kevin E. Taubman, Thomas A. Broughan, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Coffee Break
Room: Exhibit Hall F

4:00 pm - 5:20 pm

S3: SVS Plenary Session

Room: Korbel 1 & 2

Moderators:  Robert M. Zwolak, MD, Vice President, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; Gregory J. Pearl, MD, Texas Vascular Associates, P.A., Dallas, TX

4:00 pm
SS15. Fenestrated and Branched Endograft Repair of Juxta- and Para-Renal Aneurysms after Previous Open Aortic Reconstruction
Adam W. Beck1,2, Wendy T. G. Bos2, Georgios Vourliotakis2,3, Clark J. Zeebregts2, Ignace F. J. Tielliu2, Eric L. G. Verhoeven2, 1Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, West Lebanon, NH; 2University Medical Center of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Netherlands3General Military Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

4:14 pm
SS16. 30 Day Mortality from Reintervention or Readmission Following Endovascular and Open Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the United States Medicare Population
Marc L. Schermerhorn1, Kristina A. Giles1, A. James O'Malley2, Philip Cotterill2, Frank B. Pomposelli1, Bruce E. Landon2; 1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

4:28 pm
SS17. Iliac Branched Devices: Technical Aspects and Midterm Patency
Marcelo Ferreira, Luiz Lanziotti, Marcelo Monteiro, SITE - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4:42 pm
Video Presentation
VS3.  A Protocol for Endovascular Treatment of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms 
Manish Mehta, R. Clement Darling III, Sean P. Roddy, Philip SK Paty, Kathleen J. Ozsvath, Obinna Nwobi, Yaron Sternbach, John B. Taggert, Paul B. Kreienberg, Benjamin B. Chang, Dhiraj M. Shah, The Vascular Group, PLLC, Albany, NY

4:52 pm
SS18. Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: The Harborview Experience - Part 2
Benjamin W. Starnes, Elina Quiroga, Nam T. Tran, Thomas Hatsukami, Mark Meissner, Ted Kohler, Michael Sobel, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

5:06 pm
SS19. Implications of Endoleaks on Aneurysm Sac Pressures Following Endovascular Repair of Elective and Ruptured Aortic Aneurysms
Manish Mehta, John B. Taggert, Sean P. Roddy, Yaron Sternbach, Paul B. Kreienberg, Ashik Desai, Philip S. K. Paty, Kathleen J. Ozsvath, Benjamin B. Chang, Dhiraj M. Shah, R. Clement Darling, III, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

SVS Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall
Room: Exhibit Hall F

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Individual Alumni Receptions
Room: See onsite program book