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WIfI score found to be accurate across racial groups
The wound, ischemia and foot infection (WIfI) score is as accurate a predictor of risk for limb loss in Black people as it is among whites, an SVS Foundation-supported study found. The research on patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI)…
New JVS associate editor for diversity traces footsteps of her mother
It took Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) associate editor Ulka Sachdev-Ost, MD, a while to realize just how much of an impact her mother’s journey in medicine had had on her own career. Sachdev-Ost reveals an intriguing backdrop to an…
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)…
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…
‘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…
‘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…
Study identifies disparities in early revascularization for symptomatic carotid stenosis
Data from a new study carried out in Texas found disparities in those undergoing early carotid revascularization along gender, race and ethnic lines. A research team from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston demonstrated that women are less likely to…
Vascular fellow: ‘Keeping your head down does not save you from inequality’
Pain is often fully experienced in isolation. It’s these experiences that serve as some of the most defining moments in life. The history of race cannot be recounted without sorrow. It remains a constant reminder of our differences, a difference…