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The South-Asian Association for Vascular Surgery (SAAVS) held their second annual meeting on May 30, 2013. Founded in 2011, the SAAVS is a member organization of the SVS with a mission to promote vascular health and disseminate the latest in vascular surgical techniques throughout South Asia. In just 2 years, the SAAVS has 100 registered members including 23 from overseas. During the meeting, Dr. Anil Hingorani began his tenure as President and Dr. Dipankar Mukherjee was voted President-Elect. Dr. Anahit Dua was presented an $800 prize for the outstanding resident research award. Dr. Krishna Jain and Dr. Bhagwan Satiani spoke on current issues facing vascular surgeons in the United States while Dr. Kumud Rai and Dr. Ramesh Tripathi spoke on the status of the field in India. The SAAVS is focusing its energy on establishing a "vascular update" with a 2-week didactic and practical course in South Asia. It is actively partnering with vascular societies in India to fulfill its mission. Medical students, trainees, and vascular surgeons from all backgrounds and geographic areas who are interested in advancing vascular care in South Asia are welcome to join. Visit http://saavsociety.org for more information.
Upcoming
The Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery will be holding its annual meeting September 13-14, 2013, at The Westin Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The invited guest speaker is Dr. Ronald Lee Dalman II, who is the Dr. Walter C. Chidester Professor of Surgery, at Stanford University School of Medicine. Visit http://canadianvascular.ca for more details.
Obituaries
As we are beginning this new section, we are including obituaries from 2012.
Harold Clifton Urschel, Jr.
Dr. Urschel passed away on Nov. 12, 2012, at the age of 82. At the time of his death he was at the American Heart Association meeting in Los Angeles, where he was presenting material on his latest research interest: the use of stem cells for the treatment of heart failure. He was the past president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Texas Surgical Association and a Distinguished fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery. He has been a Governor of the American College of Surgeons, Chairman of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Chairman of the Residency Review Committee for Thoracic Surgery and also a member of every important national and international medical and surgical society.
Max R. Gaspar
Dr. Gaspar, an internationally reputed vascular surgeon, died Oct. 7, 2012. He was 97. Gaspar, formerly of Long Beach, had been chief of vascular surgery for 25 years at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where he also served as attending surgeon for 50 years. He had a practice in Long Beach and had also performed surgeries at St. Mary Medical Center, Memorial Medical Center, and Community Medical. He attended the University of South Dakota Medical School but finished his training at USC in 1938, and earned his M.D. in 1940. During World War II, he served in the Navy as a doctor in the Pacific. Dr. Gaspar remained active in medicine and teaching. About 17 years ago, USC established the Max R. Gaspar Symposium, which addressed a specific topic of interest to physicians and surgeons who care for patients with vascular disease. He also authored numerous articles and contributed about 14 chapters to various texts. He was one of the early pioneers in our field.
Edwin Salzman
Dr. Salzman, a professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died Oct. 3, 2012, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in a room not far from his old office. His surgical career was cut short by Parkinson’s disease in the mid-1970s. Turning full attention to the scientific research that had always been his parallel career, he helped pioneer using aspirin to prevent DVT and spent a dozen years working part-time as deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Along with the findings in the 1970s about aspirin, he made significant contributions to research involving heparin and other methods that prevent postoperative pulmonary embolism.
Geoffrey Hamilton White
Dr. White died peacefully in Australia on Jan. 26, 2012, at the age of 60. He was at UCLA from 1984 to 1989 as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine and Chief of Vascular Surgery at the VA Wadsworth Medical Center. He was later appointed head of the department at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Professor of Vascular Surgery at Macquarie University Hospital, both in Australia. He had a richly deserved international reputation for his many contributions to the development of the endovascular treatment abdominal aortic aneurysms. He also coined the term "endoleak," which is nowpart of the nomenclature.
Deceased Members
(Reported to the SVS as of April 19, 2013; presented in order of receiving):
• Johann Ehrenhaft, MD Iowa City, IA
• J. Harold Harrison, MD Bartow, GA
• George Kish, MD Henderson, NV
• Malcolm Thomas, MD Phoenix, AZ
• Norman Rosenberg, MD Lantana, FL
• Michael Seremetis, MD Washington, DC
• Andrew Michalski, MD St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada
• Dean Wasserman, MD Paramus, NJ
• Duncan W. Campbell, MD Tucson, AZ
• Edwin Salzman, MD Cambridge, MA
• John Vander Woude, MD Sioux Falls, SD
• William A. Holbrook, MD Chevy Chase, MD
• Lewis H. Bosher, MD Richmond, VA
• Joseph Graham, MD Joplin, MO
• William D. Byrne McLean, VA
• John Waldhausen, MD Lemoyne, PA
• David Wulkan, MD Boca Raton, FL
• Max Gaspar, MD Seal Beach, CA
• Hugh E. Stephenson, MD Columbia, MO
• Harold C. Urschel, Jr., MD Dallas, TX
• Geoffrey H. White, MD Sydney, Australia
• Henning Loeprecht, MD Augsburg, Germany
Please submit your short meeting reports, comings and goings, upcoming meetings, obituary announcements, etc., to From the Vascular Community in care of vascularspecialist@frontlinemedcom.com.
Meeting News
Reports
The South-Asian Association for Vascular Surgery (SAAVS) held their second annual meeting on May 30, 2013. Founded in 2011, the SAAVS is a member organization of the SVS with a mission to promote vascular health and disseminate the latest in vascular surgical techniques throughout South Asia. In just 2 years, the SAAVS has 100 registered members including 23 from overseas. During the meeting, Dr. Anil Hingorani began his tenure as President and Dr. Dipankar Mukherjee was voted President-Elect. Dr. Anahit Dua was presented an $800 prize for the outstanding resident research award. Dr. Krishna Jain and Dr. Bhagwan Satiani spoke on current issues facing vascular surgeons in the United States while Dr. Kumud Rai and Dr. Ramesh Tripathi spoke on the status of the field in India. The SAAVS is focusing its energy on establishing a "vascular update" with a 2-week didactic and practical course in South Asia. It is actively partnering with vascular societies in India to fulfill its mission. Medical students, trainees, and vascular surgeons from all backgrounds and geographic areas who are interested in advancing vascular care in South Asia are welcome to join. Visit http://saavsociety.org for more information.
Upcoming
The Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery will be holding its annual meeting September 13-14, 2013, at The Westin Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The invited guest speaker is Dr. Ronald Lee Dalman II, who is the Dr. Walter C. Chidester Professor of Surgery, at Stanford University School of Medicine. Visit http://canadianvascular.ca for more details.
Obituaries
As we are beginning this new section, we are including obituaries from 2012.
Harold Clifton Urschel, Jr.
Dr. Urschel passed away on Nov. 12, 2012, at the age of 82. At the time of his death he was at the American Heart Association meeting in Los Angeles, where he was presenting material on his latest research interest: the use of stem cells for the treatment of heart failure. He was the past president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Texas Surgical Association and a Distinguished fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery. He has been a Governor of the American College of Surgeons, Chairman of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Chairman of the Residency Review Committee for Thoracic Surgery and also a member of every important national and international medical and surgical society.
Max R. Gaspar
Dr. Gaspar, an internationally reputed vascular surgeon, died Oct. 7, 2012. He was 97. Gaspar, formerly of Long Beach, had been chief of vascular surgery for 25 years at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where he also served as attending surgeon for 50 years. He had a practice in Long Beach and had also performed surgeries at St. Mary Medical Center, Memorial Medical Center, and Community Medical. He attended the University of South Dakota Medical School but finished his training at USC in 1938, and earned his M.D. in 1940. During World War II, he served in the Navy as a doctor in the Pacific. Dr. Gaspar remained active in medicine and teaching. About 17 years ago, USC established the Max R. Gaspar Symposium, which addressed a specific topic of interest to physicians and surgeons who care for patients with vascular disease. He also authored numerous articles and contributed about 14 chapters to various texts. He was one of the early pioneers in our field.
Edwin Salzman
Dr. Salzman, a professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died Oct. 3, 2012, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in a room not far from his old office. His surgical career was cut short by Parkinson’s disease in the mid-1970s. Turning full attention to the scientific research that had always been his parallel career, he helped pioneer using aspirin to prevent DVT and spent a dozen years working part-time as deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Along with the findings in the 1970s about aspirin, he made significant contributions to research involving heparin and other methods that prevent postoperative pulmonary embolism.
Geoffrey Hamilton White
Dr. White died peacefully in Australia on Jan. 26, 2012, at the age of 60. He was at UCLA from 1984 to 1989 as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine and Chief of Vascular Surgery at the VA Wadsworth Medical Center. He was later appointed head of the department at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Professor of Vascular Surgery at Macquarie University Hospital, both in Australia. He had a richly deserved international reputation for his many contributions to the development of the endovascular treatment abdominal aortic aneurysms. He also coined the term "endoleak," which is nowpart of the nomenclature.
Deceased Members
(Reported to the SVS as of April 19, 2013; presented in order of receiving):
• Johann Ehrenhaft, MD Iowa City, IA
• J. Harold Harrison, MD Bartow, GA
• George Kish, MD Henderson, NV
• Malcolm Thomas, MD Phoenix, AZ
• Norman Rosenberg, MD Lantana, FL
• Michael Seremetis, MD Washington, DC
• Andrew Michalski, MD St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada
• Dean Wasserman, MD Paramus, NJ
• Duncan W. Campbell, MD Tucson, AZ
• Edwin Salzman, MD Cambridge, MA
• John Vander Woude, MD Sioux Falls, SD
• William A. Holbrook, MD Chevy Chase, MD
• Lewis H. Bosher, MD Richmond, VA
• Joseph Graham, MD Joplin, MO
• William D. Byrne McLean, VA
• John Waldhausen, MD Lemoyne, PA
• David Wulkan, MD Boca Raton, FL
• Max Gaspar, MD Seal Beach, CA
• Hugh E. Stephenson, MD Columbia, MO
• Harold C. Urschel, Jr., MD Dallas, TX
• Geoffrey H. White, MD Sydney, Australia
• Henning Loeprecht, MD Augsburg, Germany
Please submit your short meeting reports, comings and goings, upcoming meetings, obituary announcements, etc., to From the Vascular Community in care of vascularspecialist@frontlinemedcom.com.
Meeting News
Reports
The South-Asian Association for Vascular Surgery (SAAVS) held their second annual meeting on May 30, 2013. Founded in 2011, the SAAVS is a member organization of the SVS with a mission to promote vascular health and disseminate the latest in vascular surgical techniques throughout South Asia. In just 2 years, the SAAVS has 100 registered members including 23 from overseas. During the meeting, Dr. Anil Hingorani began his tenure as President and Dr. Dipankar Mukherjee was voted President-Elect. Dr. Anahit Dua was presented an $800 prize for the outstanding resident research award. Dr. Krishna Jain and Dr. Bhagwan Satiani spoke on current issues facing vascular surgeons in the United States while Dr. Kumud Rai and Dr. Ramesh Tripathi spoke on the status of the field in India. The SAAVS is focusing its energy on establishing a "vascular update" with a 2-week didactic and practical course in South Asia. It is actively partnering with vascular societies in India to fulfill its mission. Medical students, trainees, and vascular surgeons from all backgrounds and geographic areas who are interested in advancing vascular care in South Asia are welcome to join. Visit http://saavsociety.org for more information.
Upcoming
The Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery will be holding its annual meeting September 13-14, 2013, at The Westin Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The invited guest speaker is Dr. Ronald Lee Dalman II, who is the Dr. Walter C. Chidester Professor of Surgery, at Stanford University School of Medicine. Visit http://canadianvascular.ca for more details.
Obituaries
As we are beginning this new section, we are including obituaries from 2012.
Harold Clifton Urschel, Jr.
Dr. Urschel passed away on Nov. 12, 2012, at the age of 82. At the time of his death he was at the American Heart Association meeting in Los Angeles, where he was presenting material on his latest research interest: the use of stem cells for the treatment of heart failure. He was the past president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Texas Surgical Association and a Distinguished fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery. He has been a Governor of the American College of Surgeons, Chairman of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Chairman of the Residency Review Committee for Thoracic Surgery and also a member of every important national and international medical and surgical society.
Max R. Gaspar
Dr. Gaspar, an internationally reputed vascular surgeon, died Oct. 7, 2012. He was 97. Gaspar, formerly of Long Beach, had been chief of vascular surgery for 25 years at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where he also served as attending surgeon for 50 years. He had a practice in Long Beach and had also performed surgeries at St. Mary Medical Center, Memorial Medical Center, and Community Medical. He attended the University of South Dakota Medical School but finished his training at USC in 1938, and earned his M.D. in 1940. During World War II, he served in the Navy as a doctor in the Pacific. Dr. Gaspar remained active in medicine and teaching. About 17 years ago, USC established the Max R. Gaspar Symposium, which addressed a specific topic of interest to physicians and surgeons who care for patients with vascular disease. He also authored numerous articles and contributed about 14 chapters to various texts. He was one of the early pioneers in our field.
Edwin Salzman
Dr. Salzman, a professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died Oct. 3, 2012, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in a room not far from his old office. His surgical career was cut short by Parkinson’s disease in the mid-1970s. Turning full attention to the scientific research that had always been his parallel career, he helped pioneer using aspirin to prevent DVT and spent a dozen years working part-time as deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Along with the findings in the 1970s about aspirin, he made significant contributions to research involving heparin and other methods that prevent postoperative pulmonary embolism.
Geoffrey Hamilton White
Dr. White died peacefully in Australia on Jan. 26, 2012, at the age of 60. He was at UCLA from 1984 to 1989 as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine and Chief of Vascular Surgery at the VA Wadsworth Medical Center. He was later appointed head of the department at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Professor of Vascular Surgery at Macquarie University Hospital, both in Australia. He had a richly deserved international reputation for his many contributions to the development of the endovascular treatment abdominal aortic aneurysms. He also coined the term "endoleak," which is nowpart of the nomenclature.
Deceased Members
(Reported to the SVS as of April 19, 2013; presented in order of receiving):
• Johann Ehrenhaft, MD Iowa City, IA
• J. Harold Harrison, MD Bartow, GA
• George Kish, MD Henderson, NV
• Malcolm Thomas, MD Phoenix, AZ
• Norman Rosenberg, MD Lantana, FL
• Michael Seremetis, MD Washington, DC
• Andrew Michalski, MD St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada
• Dean Wasserman, MD Paramus, NJ
• Duncan W. Campbell, MD Tucson, AZ
• Edwin Salzman, MD Cambridge, MA
• John Vander Woude, MD Sioux Falls, SD
• William A. Holbrook, MD Chevy Chase, MD
• Lewis H. Bosher, MD Richmond, VA
• Joseph Graham, MD Joplin, MO
• William D. Byrne McLean, VA
• John Waldhausen, MD Lemoyne, PA
• David Wulkan, MD Boca Raton, FL
• Max Gaspar, MD Seal Beach, CA
• Hugh E. Stephenson, MD Columbia, MO
• Harold C. Urschel, Jr., MD Dallas, TX
• Geoffrey H. White, MD Sydney, Australia
• Henning Loeprecht, MD Augsburg, Germany