Report about the Congress

An outstanding line of globally renowned experts from medical insitutions of Europe and the United States were brought together at the first Semmelweis International Vascular Symposium (SIVS) in order to discuss the latest developments in medical, endovascular and surgical treatment of vascular diseases. The three-day event was organized jointly by the university and the Frank J. Veith International Society, the mission of which is to educate vascular specialists and advance vascular care worldwide. The program included lectures, workshops, panel discussions, a poster competition and an advanced surgical simulation course and competition.

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Committees

Semmelweis University Budapest
Frank J. Veith International Society

Organizing Committee

Chairman
Péter Sótonyi
Members
Enrico Ascher
Peter Gloviczki
Zoltán Szeberin

Scientific Committee

Chairman
Zoltán Járai
Members
Balázs Nemes
Csaba Csobay-Novák
Péter Banga

Patrons

MAIN PATRON

Gábor Orbán
CEO of Richter Gedeon Plc. and Chairman of the Foundation for National Health Care and Medical Education

PATRONS


Frank J. Veith
Professor of Surgery, New York University Medical Center NY, NY

Béla Merkely
Rector of Semmelweis University Budapest

Sándor Csányi
Chief Executive Officer of OTP Bank Group

Invited Faculty

PROF. DR. ENRICO ASCHER
Clinical Professor, Chief, Vascular Surgery
New York University, Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

DR. TOMAS BALTRŪNAS
Vascular Surgeon
Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University

DR. PÉTER VINCE BANGA
Adjunct Instructor
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

PROF. DR. CHRISTIAN-ALEXANDER BEHRENDT‬
Associate Professor, Chief and Head, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Asklepios Clinic Wandsbek, Asklepios Medical School Hamburg, Asklepios Campus Hamburg, Germany

MR. RICHARD BULBULIA
Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Senior Research Fellow & Co-PI ACST-2
CTSU and MRC Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford

ASS. PROF. CASSIUS IYAD OCHOA CHAAR
Associate Professor of Surgery
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

PROF. DR. NABIL CHAKFE, PHD
Professor of Vascular Surgery, Head of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery
CHRU de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

PROF. DR. TINA COHNERT
Univ.-Prof. Dr.med.
Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

DR. CSABA CSOBAY-NOVÁK, PHD
Assistant Professor
Department of Interventional Radiology, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

PROF. DR. RONALD L. DALMAN
Professor of Surgery
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

DR. R. CLEMENT DARLING III.
Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA

PROF. DR. EIKE SEBASTIAN DEBUS
Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Vascular Medicine
UKE, University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Department of Vascular Medicine, Germany

DR. MED. HABIL. ZBIGNIEW GAŁĄZKA
Head of the Clinical Department
Department of General, Endocrine and Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

DR. ZSOLT GARAMI
Medical Director
Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, Texas, USA

DR. MONIKA L. GLOVICZKI, PHD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

PROF. PETER GLOVICZKI
Professor of Surgery
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

PROF. DR. STEPHAN HAULON, PHD
Professor of Vascular Surgery, Head of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery
Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Groupe Hospitalier Saint Joseph, Paris Saclay University, France

ASS. PROF. TOMISLAV IŠTVANIĆ
KBC Osijek; Medicinski fakultet Osijek

DR. MED. HABIL. ARKADIUSZ JAWIEN
Head of the Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology
Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology, Collegium Medicum, University of Nicolai Copernicus, Bydgoszcz, Poland

PROF. DR. MANJU KALRA
Professor of Surgery
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

DR. TAMAS KOZICZ, PHD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

PROF. ZBIGNIEW KRASIŃSKI
University Professor
Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

PROF. DR. PETER F. LAWRENCE
Professor of Surgery
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

PROF. ALAN LUMSDEN
Medical Director of the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and chair of the Departmen
Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, Texas, USA

ASS. PROF. THANILA MACEDO
Associate professor, Radiologist
McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Science Center at Houston
Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute, Houston, Texas, USA

PROF. DR. JESSE MANUNGA
Minneapolis Heart Institute

ASS. PROF. MATTHEW T. MENARD
Co-Director, Endovascular Surgery Program Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

PROF. DR. GÁBOR MENYHEI
Professor
Department of Vascular Surgery, Clinical Centre, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

PROF. DR. ERICA L. MITCHELL
Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Department of Surgery
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

DR. EVA MORAVA, PHD
Professor of Medical Genetics
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

DR. PIOTR MYRCHA, PHD
Head of the First Chair and Department of General and Vascular Surgery
Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Department of General, Vascular and Oncological Surgery MSB, Warsaw, Poland

DR. BALÁZS NEMES, PHD
Associate Professor, Head of Department
Department of Interventional Radiology, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

PROF. DR. GUSTAVO S. ODERICH
Professor, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Science Center at Houston
Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute, Houston, Texas, USA

DR. MED. HABIL. GRZEGORZ OSZKINIS
Professor Head of Chair @ Department of Gen and Vasc Surgery Opole University
Dept. of Gen. & Vasc. Surgery Opole University w Uniwersytet Opolski, Opolskie, Poland

DR. KATHLEEN OZSVATH
Vascular Surgeon
Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA

DR. ZSOLT PALÁSTHY, PHD
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery, Albert Szent-Györgyi School of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

ASS. PROF. MUHAMMAD ALI A. RANA
University of New Mexico

PROF. DR. PÉTER SÓTONYI
Professor, Head of Department
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

PROF. DR. ZOLTÁN SZEBERIN
Professor, Chief of Vascular Surgery
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

PROF. DR. NIKOLAOS TSILIMPARIS
LMU Klinikum der Universität München, Department of Vascular Surgery, Munich, Germany

ASS. PROF. CHIEH-HAN JOHN TZOU
Associate Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Sigmund Freud University

PROF. DR. FRANK J. VEITH
Professor of surgery
Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio and New York University, Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

PROF. DR. MAARIT VENERMO
Professor of Vascular Surgery
Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Venue

BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCE CENTER OF SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY

Budapest, Tűzoltó u. 37-43, Hungary 1094

Basic Medical Science Center of Semmelweis University

Congress Bureau

K&M CONGRESS PCO AND TRAVEL AGENCY

Podmaniczky utca 75
H-1064 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: +36-1-3012000
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