Conferences, Publications and Media

Conferences

Vascular Surgery Conference
Coordinators Vascular Fellow and/or Chief Resident with Attending oversight
Ratio of lectures by staff/residents: Primarily residents under guidance of faculty mentors

Schedule/Remarks

  • Weekly, Wednesdays 8-9:30 am
  • Discussion and review of imaging and pathology
  • Resident participation expected and required

Vascular Surgery Journal Club
Coordinators Vascular Fellow and/or Chief Resident with Attending oversight
Ratio of lectures by staff/residents: Primarily residents under guidance of faculty mentors and discussants

Schedule/Remarks:

  • Monthly, second Wednesday 8-9:30 am
  • Discussion and review of current articles

Vascular Surgery Morbidity and Mortality Conference
Coordinators Vascular Fellow and/or Chief Resident with Attending oversight
Ratio of lectures by staff/residents: Primarily residents under guidance of faculty mentors and discussants

Schedule/Remarks:

  • Monthly, first Wednesday 8-9:30 am
  • Discussion of all M & M cases for the past month

Clinic Based Scenarios 
Coordinators Residents; oversight by Angela Kokkosis, MD
Lectures by faculty

Schedule/Remarks:

  • First & third Monday of the month: 6:45-7:45 am
  • Case based round table discussion
  • Sim Lab
  • Lecture topic by facility or industry

Vascular Skills Conference 
Coordinators Residents and industry reps; oversight by Angela Kokkosis, MD
Ratio of lectures by staff/residents: Primarily residents under guidance of faculty mentors

Schedule/Remarks:

  • Bi-weekly, Mondays 7-8 am
  • Vascular Device Conference
  • Sim Lab
  • Hands-on deployment


Department Grand Rounds
Coordinators Apostolos Tassiopoulos, MD, Chair, Aurora Pryor, MD, Coordinator
Ratio of lectures by staff/residents:

  • Faculty (full-time and visiting professors): 85 percent
  • Chief residents: 15 percent

Schedule/Remarks:

  • Weekly, Wednesdays 8-9 am
  • CME credit

Video conference (NYU Langone origin, once a month)
Vascular Core Curriculum Didactics Coordinators Chief resident; oversight by Angela Kokkosis, MD
Ratio of lectures by staff/residents: Primarily residents under guidance of faculty mentors

Schedule/Remarks:

  • Weekly, Fridays 7-8 am
  • Core knowledge/lecture
  • Q&A
  • V SITE review

Publications

The Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Division actively publishes in the major vascular peer review publications. For a full list of published studies from the past two years, click here.

Study authors include: Apostolos K. Tassiopoulos, MD, FACS, Antonios Gasparis, MD, FACS, Nicos Labropoulos, PhD, Shang Loh, MD, FACS, Angela Kokkosis, MD, FACS, Mohsen Bannazadeh, MD, FACS,


Media

4/09/26 - Dr. Rabih Chaer speaking about pulmonary embolism. American Medicine Today (radio)