Friends,
I am pleased to share our inaugural vascular surgery alumni newsletter. We plan to send this annually to help you stay connected with our program and with each other.
Our goal is to be a national eminent training program for vascular surgery. As we grow, we have reorganized our division around five sub-specialty teams: aortic disease, limb preservation, cerebral vascular, vein disease, and imaging. Within and across teams, we are collaborating to find synergies, share resources, and identify opportunities for improvement.
Recent program highlights include:
- Growing comprehensive vascular surgeries by 43 percent and vascular ultrasounds by 40 percent during the last two years
- Re-accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission for all four vascular imaging sites
- Recognition as a three-star Vascular Quality Initiative program—the highest score
- Initiation of three individual device exemption clinical trials: Gore TAMBE Thoracoabdominal Graft, Terumo Cross-Seal, and RFPi Multi-Spectral Physiologic Visualization
- Thriving research, with many articles published and grants funded
You may have heard that the University recently launched Together for Rochester, a one-year engagement and fundraising campaign focused on research, scholarship, careers, and diversity and inclusion.
In vascular surgery, we will launch new efforts to diversify our field by creating mentorship programs for women and a scholarship for underrepresented medical students interested in pursuing vascular surgery. Research efforts will include developing a lab focused on aortic mechanobiology; centers of excellence for aortic endovascular treatment and complex endovascular aortic repair; and new fellowships in these areas.
We’re excited to move forward with the future of our department. As friends, former trainees, and colleagues, your success and support helps guide our future legacy of vascular surgery excellence. Feel free to contact me directly with news and accomplishments at michael_stoner@urmc.rochester.edu.
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Best regards,
Michael C. Stoner, MD
Division Chief, Vascular Surgery
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Seymour Schwartz, author of ‘the Surgeon’s Bible,’ dies at 92
As one of the most distinguished surgeons in America, Seymour I. Schwartz, MD, edited and co-wrote the textbook used to teach generations of young doctors and led the surgical societies that shaped the profession. He remained influential well into his oldest years by continuing to write, teach, and to commit his time to physicians in Rochester and across the globe. Schwartz, 92, died August 28, 2020.
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Doyle establishes research fellowship fund
Former resident Adam Doyle ’08M (MD), ’14M (Res), assistant professor of vascular surgery, wants to ensure that resources always exist to support trainee research. Dr. Doyle, and his wife, Marcy Mason ’11, ’15 (MS), a nurse practitioner at URMC, have established the Vascular Surgery Research Fellowship Fund. Dr. Stoner, and his wife, Claire, have matched the gift with other faculty members supporting the fund at various levels. Please consider joining us in supporting this effort. For more information, contact Jennifer Koehnlein at jennifer.koehnlein@rochester.edu.
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Meet the faculty
Our faculty is made up of eight renowned vascular and endovascular surgeons dedicated to providing lifesaving treatment and care to patients in upstate New York. They also educate and mentor the next generation of vascular surgeons in the classroom, lab, and operating room. Throughout the program’s history, our faculty have helped pioneer many of the techniques now considered standards of care for aortic and vascular surgery.
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Clinicians and engineers improve cardiovascular care
Doran Mix ’13M (MD), ’19M (Res), assistant professor of vascular surgery, is director of the Cardiovascular Engineering Lab, where a multidisciplinary team is developing novel diagnostic, therapeutic, and predictive devices and tools to improve cardiovascular care for patients. Dr. Mix recently completed a three month fellowship training program at the Mayo Clinic in advanced endovascular aortic surgery. He hopes the training will allow him to create an Aortic Center at URMC, which would provide patients who have a complex aortic endovascular repair with superior outcomes.
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Vascular surgery alumni map
Curious to know where your fellow alumni live and work? Our map will show you where everyone is located.
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