Vascular Surgery In This Issue
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Vascular Surgery Services
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Surgical Indicators
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Diagnostic Venous Unit
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Meet Our Support Staff
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Multidisciplinary Aortic Program
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Pediatric Vascular Disease Program
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Peripheral Arterial Disease Program
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Venous Health Program
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Cardiovascular Center
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Livonia Vein Clinic
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Veterans Administration
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Residency and Fellowship Programs
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Students
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Other Programs
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Vascular Surgery Research
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Clinical Trials
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Quality Assurance
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Faculty Updates
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Development
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Your Support Makes a Difference
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Acknowledging our Supporters
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Success for Today‌ Vision for Tomorrow Vascular Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) has realized significant achievements in 2012 in all areas of its core services: patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care
The majority of Vascular Surgery patient services are provided at the Cardiovascular Center (CVC) located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We are happy to report that 95 percent of polled CVC patients said they would return for another visit. Similar high ratings extend to our satellite facility at the Livonia Vein Clinic (LVC), where polled patients reported an overall patient satisfaction rating of 96 percent. Vascular Surgery has also met the UMHS goal of seeing 80 percent of all new patients within four weeks of their referral date. Our vision is to create the best patient care experience and provide the most up-to-date and innovative vascular care possible.
Education
As a world-renowned academic center, we are proud to have under our umbrella a vascular surgery fellowship program, an integrated vascular residency program, and a research fellowship federally funded by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored T-32 training grant. In fact, we will graduate the first of the original integrated vascular residents in the country. Our highly sought-after programs continue to be competitive and attract the best and brightest candidates. Our vision
is to continue to provide outstanding clinical training for future academicians and leaders in vascular surgery. In the near future, our training program will be increasingly competency-based with simulation playing a more prominent role.
Research
In the areas of clinical and basic science research, amidst a tentative economy and uncertainty with federal sponsors, Vascular Surgery managed to maintain research operations within the Conrad Jobst Vascular Research Laboratories and at our Vascular Mechanics Laboratory receiving awards totaling more than $2.3M, which is on par with the prior year total of $2.4M. We were also able to maintain research spending at our biomedical clinics and laboratories, as well as with many research collaborators. Our Thomas Wakefield, MD vision is to Section Head improve the human condition by discovery through research on means to prevent, cure, and lessen the burden of vascular disease, and provide an arena to train future vascular surgeons and scientists. As we build on our solid foundation, Vascular Surgery looks forward to continued success and achievement.