Vascular Interventions Online 2021: On-demand

Stéphan Haulon defended his PhD-thesis in Biomaterial research in 2002. In 2006 he was appointed Professor of Vascular Surgery at Lille University, and in 2017 chairman of the Aortic Centre at Marie Lannelongue, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Paris Saclay University.

Stéphan's main interest is in aortic surgery, particularly the endovascular treatment of thoraco-abdominal and arch aneurysms.

He is co-director of the Paris Vascular Insights meeting, of the Critical Issues in Aortic Endografting Expert Symposium, and of the annual Charing Cross Symposium.

He was elected councillor of the ESVS and of the French SVS, and is a SVS member. 

Finally, Stephan was the president elect of the ESVS for 2019-2020.

Dr Bijan Modarai qualified from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, UK.

He obtained a PhD in 2006 and completed his higher surgical training as an NIHR academic clinical lecturer, spending a year as an endovascular fellow at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

Since his appointment as consultant vascular and endovascular surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas' in 2011, Mr Modarai has co-managed the largest UK practice in complex (branched and fenestrated) endovascular aortic repairs.

Joost van Herwaarden is a Full Professor in the Department of Vascular Surgery at the University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Prof van Herwaarden’s research interests included abdominal aortic aneurysms, endovascular repair, endovascular aneurysm repair and imaging modalities. With over seventy papers published in peer-reviewed journals, Prof van Herwaarden is a member of

Recently, his participating in the executive education course “Managing Health Care Delivery” at Harvard Business School, Boston, USA, helped him to co-initiate and start the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Academy to spread awareness for, and setup training programs in, vascular disease and aortic pathology in several less developed countries in Africa.

In 2007 he was appointed as Professor and Chief of Vascular Surgery at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is an internationally renowned expert in this field. He has organized many advanced international training courses on EVAR and TEVAR and is the founder of the Dutch practical course (basic and advanced) on peripheral percutaneous vascular interventions.

Professor Hence Verhagen has a special interest in Aortic pathology and interventions, including cutting-edge endovascular technologies, in which he has extensive experience. 

He started his Surgical training with…

Dr Frank Arko is Director of Endovascular Surgery and Co-director of the Aortic Institute at Carolinas Medical Center of the Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, among the busiest aortic repair centres in the US.
A global expert on aortic repair techniques and peripheral arterial disease, Dr Arko completed medical school and residency at Texas A&M University, and a Fellowship at Stanford University, US.

Board certified by the American Board of Surgery – Vascular Surgery, Dr Arko’s specialist interests include minimally invasive surgery, trauma and surgical critical care, and vascular surgery.

He is a member of a number of professional societies and bodies, including the American College of Surgeons, the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, the Society of Vascular Surgery, and the…