The evolving role of academic outpatient vascular centers

Outpatient vascular care has moved from an alternative site of service to the default setting for much of modern practice. Vascular Specialist marked this shift by launching its column, The Outpatient, beginning with the edition titled “In focus: Outpatient vascular…
The benefits of a heart and vascular institute

Vikram S. Kashyap, MD, pushes back against a recent editorial from Vascular Specialist medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, in which the latter called into question the value of heart and vascular centers to the vascular surgical specialty. I am…
New OBL column to launch in October issue

Vascular Specialist is launching a new column in the October issue of the newspaper dedicated to issues important to—and involving—the office-based lab (OBL) setting. Entitled “The Outpatient,” it will run bimonthly (or six times per year) and be edited by…

