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Study finds racial disparities in acute stroke thrombectomy management
A new study has found several racial disparities after mechanical thrombectomy for stroke with respect to post-procedure management and outcomes. Vineeth Thirunavu of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, presented the data at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS)…
Integrated vascular residency recruitment: Start pipeline earlier, engage more deeply
Our great specialty and the patients we serve face an impending critical shortage of vascular surgeons in the decade ahead. The Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) have recognized this issue…
First patients enrolled in SUPERSURG study of Supera peripheral stent system
ID3 Medical Belgium has announced the first two enrollments in the SUPERSURG study to investigate the safety and efficacy of Abbotts’ Supera peripheral stent system versus surgical endarterectomy in treating patients with common femoral artery disease, with and without femoral…
Diversity, equity and inclusion: Disparities in medicine and vascular surgery
Recent months have yielded a conversation on systemic racism perhaps unlike any other before. We’ve learned about how it manifests across society, how it impacts those on the receiving end, and how it can appear in subtle guises, including in…
‘Significant’ number of vascular surgery faculty suffer workplace sexual harassment
The Journal of Vascular Surgery August issue featured a paper whose findings established a significant number of faculty of vascular surgery training programs had experienced workplace sexual harassment after an anonymous survey. “Gender disparity and sexual harassment in vascular surgery practices,”…
‘If I had gone along the path advised, I would never have become a surgeon’
Some of the formative educational experiences described by Olamide Alabi, MD, read like textbook examples of the subtleties many see as baked into U.S. society, multiplying down the years as the very face of systemic racism in the country. These…
Doubted as a doctor during mid-flight medical emergency and once asked: ‘Shouldn’t you be playing basketball?’
In a vascular surgery career spanning 20 years, Vincent Rowe, MD, has seen it all: Tending to patients at bedside, the vascular surgical services chief at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center has had his very presence as a…
CEA provides inhibitive effect on stroke prevention for eight years over no surgical intervention
Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has a small but significant effect on stroke prevention through eight years compared with no surgery, investigators who carried out a cohort analysis in a large integrated health system found. A research team led by Robert Chang,…
‘Casting a wider net’ when researching genetic and molecular factors of disease
For vascular surgeon and research scientist Elsie Gyang Ross, MD, the world of data science might hold some of the answers to the kind of healthcare disparities on which the current cultural climate has refocused minds. Ross, an assistant professor…
‘Improving disparities in healthcare is not a matter of slapping some paint on something and doing whatever is a quick fix’
Andrew Gonzalez, MD, had a heart for underserved and under- resourced communities embedded early. The son of a pediatric hematologist mother who worked at Cook County Hospital in Chicago for 31 years, his mom spent a lot of her time…