Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 3-7, 2004
The Pan American Congress on Vascular Surgery shares cutting-edge technologies, techniques and principles of vascular surgery with colleagues from all over the world. First presented in 1990, the Congress has featured nearly every prominent vascular surgeon in the western hemisphere to participate as faculty. The Congress has become one of the largest meetings in the world, with over 1,000 attendees at the last event. These participants rated this event as "one of the best in the world".This Congress is designed especially for vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, angiologists and other specialists interested in the treatment of vascular disease. At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to: Critically evaluate the latest surgical and non-surgical techniques as they apply to the clinical usefulness to a vascular surgeon, including new diagnostic devices. and methods. Utilize new techniques for repair of aneurysms through surgical, endoscopic or endovascular methods appropriate to a clinical situation. Describe new and evolving concepts in limb salvage.
Assess options for the management of carotid, vertebral and thoracic outlet pathology.
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Invited Speakers:
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Enrico Ascher, M.D.
Professor of Surgery, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Chairman, Vascular Institute of New York
Director of Vascular Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York USADennis Bandyk, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
University of South Florida
College of Medicine
Tampa, Florida USA R. Clement Darling III, M.D.
Chief of Vascular Surgery, Institute for Vascular Health & Disease
Albany Medical Center
Albany, New York USA Anil P. Hingorani, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Attending, Division of Vascular Surgery
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York USA Kim J. Hodgson, M.D.
Professor and Chairman of the Division of Vascular Surgery
Department of Surgery
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Springfield, Iiinois USA Peter G. Kalman, M.D.
Director, Toronto General Hospital Vascular Centre
Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario Canada K. Craig Kent, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center and Columbia Medical Center
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery, New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York USA Peter F. Lawrence, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Director, Gonda (Goldschmied) Vascular Center
Bergman Chair in Vascular Research
Los Angeles, California USA Alan B. Lumsden, M.D.
Professor and Chief
Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery
Houston, Texas USA Kenneth Ouriel, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at CWRU
Chairman, Division of Vascular Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio USA John J. Ricotta, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
State University of New York at Stony Brook
School of Medicine
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Stony Brook, New York USA Sergio Salles-Cunha, PhD, RVT, FSVU
Technical Director, Vascular Institute of New York
Brooklyn, New York USA
Clinical Research Director, Jobst Vascular Center
Toldeo, Ohio USA Thomas M. Scalea, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Director, Program in Trauma
Physician-in-Chief, Shock Trauma Center
University of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland USA Richard W. Schutzer, M.D.
Attending, Division of Vascular Surgery
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York USA Michael B. Silva Jr., M.D.
Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery
Professor and Chief, Vascular Surgery and Vascular Interventional Radiology
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, Texas USA Bauer Sumpio, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut USA Frank J. Veith, M.D.
Professor and Vice-Chairman of Surgery
Montefiore Medical Center
University Hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
William J. von Liebig Chair in Vascular Surgery
Bronx, New York USA
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