VEIN Magazine with Dr. Steve Elias

About Dr. Anthony Comerota (Host)Dr. Comerota is a board-certified vascular surgeon. He joined Inova as the Medical Director of the Eastern Region Heart and Vascular Institute, with over 36 years of clinical experience. Dr. Comerota served as a faculty member at Temple University Health Sciences Center where he became Chief of Vascular Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Program Director of General and Vascular Surgery, President of the Medical Staff and President of the Medical Alumni Association. He also served as Director of the Jobst Vascular Institute, ProMedica Toledo Hospital from 2002 - 2015 and Executive Director of Research, ProMedica Health System and Jobst Vascular Institute from 2015 to January 2017. Dr. Comerota has been a major contributor to the development of some of the newest forms of treatment for vascular disease and has been the principal investigator of seven major national trials and a co-investigator of numerous others. Dr. Comerota has a special interest in acute and chronic venous thromboembolic disease, complex deep venous reconstruction, and carotid artery disease. He became interested in venous thromboembolic disease because it is a serious and common vascular disorder.About Dr. Riyaz Bashir (Guest)While maintaining his full medical and academic responsibilities at the Temple University and Temple University Hospital System, Dr. Bashir serves in an ex-officio Chief Medical Consultant role for Thrombolex.Dr. Bashir shares the product design creation responsibilities with Mr. Green. Dr. Bashir is a Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and is the inventor of the Bashir Endovascular Catheter. His specialties include: carotid artery and peripheral vascular diseases, coronary and endovascular interventions (including carotid stenting and gene and stem cell therapy).He attended medical school at the University of Kashmir, Government Medical College, Srinagar, India. His training includes a fellowship, interventional cardiology, Mayo Clinic; fellowship, vascular medicine and endovascular intervention, Tufts University School of Medicine, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center; fellowship, cardiovascular medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center; residency, internal medicine, University of Kashmir, S.M.H.S. Hospital and Nassau University Medical Center, SUNY at Stony Brook.His certifications include: interventional cardiology, vascular technology, endovascular interventions, vascular medicine, cardiovascular disease, and internal medicine.About the Bashir Endovascular CatheterThe BASHIR™ Endovascular Catheter is a device intended for the localized infusion of physician specified fluids, including thrombolytics, into the peripheral vasculature.The distal infusion segment of the device is 12.50 cm long and consists of an expandable basket with mini-infusion catheters, each with multiple infusion holes.It is used for the delivery of the physician-specified fluids at multiple cross-sectional points of the target vessel location.The infusion basket can be expanded using the red actuator located on the handle at the proximal end of the device.After expansion, the mini-infusion catheters may be returned to their original closed positions by depressing the white button on the actuator and advancing the actuator toward the distal end of the device. BASHIR™ Endovascular Catheters are for use only by trained physicians in strict accordance with the FDA-cleared IFU. Read more.Dr. Steve Elias bids adieu -- VEIN Magazine thanks him for 12 wonderful episodes of the VEIN Magazine Podcast. Be sure to listen to his new show -- The Venous Edge Podcast 

It takes three vein specialists to do a good job writing new guidelines on the care of varicose veins. And that's why we're here today. We have three people that are on the SVS AVF committee (Peter Gloviczki, Peter Lawrence, and Mark Meissner) to rewrite the guidelines for the care of patients with varicose veins. Why do we need new guidelines? Don't we already know what we need to do to take care of varicose veins?

In this episode, Dr. Steve Elias is joined by Dr. Thomas Maldonado from NYU Langone Medical Center, Dr. Peter Pappas from Center for Vein Restoration and Dr. Thom Rooke from the Mayo Clinic to discuss lymphedema and phlebolymphedema. Thank you to our sponsor Tactile Medical, maker of the Flexitouch. The Flexitouch system is an advanced intermittent pneumatic compression device (lymphedema pump) used by tens of thousands of patients to self-manage lymphedema and nonhealing venous leg ulcers.

In this episode, Steve is joined by Drs. Ellen Dillavou and Patrick Muck to discuss how to get vascular trainees interested in venous disease treatment.

Welcome to the VEIN Magazine podcast with Dr. Steve Elias, also known as "Vein Specialists Sitting around, Having Drinks and Talking." In this episode, Scott Centea, Sr. Director of Global Marketing, Peripheral Vascular at AngioDynamics; Brian Dempsey, Peripheral Account Manager at Philips Healthcare; and Eric Heil, Vice President of US Commerical at BTG International, join Steve at the 2019 American Venous Forum's annual meeting to discuss the industry’s role in education, appropriate treatment, and the development of new products. What are the challenges of getting technologies covered and what barriers prevent newer devices from coming to market? Listen now to find out.

Dr. Steve Elias speaks with Dr. Angela A. Kokkosis and Dr. Pamela S. Kim, both of whom work at Stony Brook Medicine, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, to see what some of the younger members of the vein community have to say about the ever-evolving world of veins.

Dr. Steve Elias is joined by some of the faculty of the New York Venous Symposium which will be held in New York on April 11, 12 and 13, 2019. Here, Drs. Ellen Dillavou, Kathleen Gibson, Neil Khilnani, and Joseph Raffetto discuss what they love about the meeting, why it's unique and what attendees can expect from the 2019 symposium.

Recorded from the 9th annual European Venous Forum Hands-On Workshop. EVF HOW course directors Dr. Marianne De Maeseneer from Belgium, Dr. Tomasz Urbanek from Poland and Dr. Steven Black from the UK join Dr. Steve Elias at the 2018 EVF HOW meeting in Cyprus to discuss the 2018 meeting and venous education in Europe. To learn more about the European Venous Forum visit https://europeanvenousforum.org/

What is the Improving Wisely project? How is it being applied to the vein specialty? And what were the results of the 2018 pilot program?

In this episode Drs. Steve Elias, Mark Meissner, and Neil Khilnani discuss the organization formerly known as the American College of Phlebology's (ACP's) recent name change to the American Vein and Lymphatic Society (the AVLS). What was behind this decision and what was the process of choosing a new name.

Dr. Steve Elias joins Dr. Bill Marston and Dr. Mark Meissner to talk about the state of venous education meetings. Are these meetings the best format for CME? Can online education be viable? And where are the West-coast meetings?

Our host Dr. Steve Elias shares some whiskey with Dr. Nicos Labropoulos and Dr. Tony Gasparis while discussing EVM and venous education.

One year later, what did the ATTRACT Trial NOT tell us, and where do we go from here?