Vascular Surgery Research Day
 from left to right- Bradley Strauss, K. Wayne Johnston, Lewis Schwartz,
Thomas Lindsay, and George Oreopoulos
Vascular Surgery Research Day was held at Hart House
on June 21 2013. The theme was innovation, clinical
applications and basic research. There were seven presentations
by residents from both general surgery and
vascular surgery programmes.
Lewis Schwartz spoke on “The Development of
Bioresorbable Intravascular Scaffolds” and “Medical
Innovation”. Dr. Schwartz is a Vascular Surgeon at The
University of Chicago where for ten years he maintained
an academic practice in vascular surgery as well as
conducted federally-funded research in the fields of
vascular biology, rheology and gene therapy. In 2003, he
joined Abbott Laboratories as Global Medical Director
for Thrombolysis, Global Pharmaceutical Research and
Development, then was named Divisional Vice President
of the fledgling vascular device division in 2004. Dr.
Schwartz’ most recent position is Vice President, Global
Device Development for Hospira, Inc., the world’s leading
manufacturer of generic injectable pharmaceuticals
and infusion pumps. He remains associated with the
University of Chicago’s Division of Vascular Surgery.
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The second guest lecturer was Bradley Strauss who
spoke on “Crossing Innovation Barriers: The Collagenase
Journey through Chronic Total Occlusions. He is Chief
of the Schulich Heart Program and Head of the Division
of Cardiology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He holds the Reichmann Chair in Cardiovascular
Research, and is a Professor of Medicine and Professor of
Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University
of Toronto.
 from left to right- Ahmed Kayssi, Luis Figueroa-Gallaga, Varun Kapila
The judges, Thomas Lindsay, George Oreopoulos,
Lewis Schwartz and Bradley Strauss, chose Ahmed
Kayssi and Sydney Wong as the first and second prize
winners.
Following the research day, the graduating residents
and fellows were given their certificates by George
Oreopoulos and Thomas Lindsay. This included Varun
Kapila who graduated from the Royal College 5+2
Vascular Surgery Programme and Luis Figueroa-Gallaga
who has completed two years’ as a foreign fellow and
will be joining the Royal College stream in July 2013.
Michael Delbridge completed a one year fellowship
programme and is returning to the UK to take up a staff
position in the National Health Service.
George Oreopoulos awarded K. Wayne Johnston the
Best Lecturer in the resident research seminar series, as
voted by the trainees.
Thomas Lindsay
Chair, Vascular Surgery Division
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