VAST 2025

May 21 – 23, 2025

The Omni Hilton Head Island

Hilton Head, SC

Learn, Discuss, Collaborate

The VAST 2025 Annual Conference, offers several unique interactive learning formats designed to engage the
panel and audience in a high-spirited discussion on contemporaneous vascular issues.
Interactive
Expert moderators facilitate the panel and audience in a fast-paced and high-intensity discussion.
The audience is the ultimate arbitrator and challenges the panel and speakers to dissect all points and counterpoints of the debate.
Complex Cases & Complications
Key opinion leaders present complex cases and complications that require a deep dive in finding solutions and along the way, are challenged by a panel of key operatives. There are no boundaries to this discussion, as operatives on the sidelines (the audience debate the panel and speakers to
assert their viewpoint).
My Opinion…Take it or, Leave it!
Experience matters! In the session, the operatives stand by their opinion, and have no issues going head-to-head with the panel and the audience that might disagree.
Morbidity & Mortality
This morbidity and mortality session is designed for the operatives to take a deep dive and get us to a place that is immersed in complications and require innovative strategies to save the day. The operatives have been forewarned to come well prepared as they are sure to be challenged by thepanel that has been there and done that.
Deep Dive: Fellows & Residents Competition
This is where the rubber hits the road and vascular trainees have the opportunity to present innovative cases, novel techniques, or original research to a panel of experts whose job is to challenge and judge the presenters.
The Vascular Roundtable®
Each year we focus a roundtable discussion on controversial topics that profoundly affect our ability to deliver the highest quality Vascular Care.
Industry Symposiums
This is when our industry partners have the opportunity to showcase projects in their pipeline stage and focus
discussion on emerging vascular technology.

Registration Fees

  Faculty Member-  Covered by CVA Physician (Non faculty)- $850 Fellow/ Resident (Participating in Deep Dive Competition)-  Covered by CVA Scholarship
Register Today

Registration Fee Includes:

• Admission to scientific sessions on Wednesday, May 21st – Friday, May 23rd 2025.
• Scientific program materials.
• Access to the Exhibit Hall.
• Daily continental breakfast and refreshment breaks.

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellation requests received in writing on or before May 1st, 2025 will be refunded and will be subject to a $50 administrative fee.
Cancellations will not be accepted over the phone.

Schedule At-a-Glance

 

Wednesday, May 21st

Sunrise Breakfast                   6:30 AM

Welcome to VAST                  7:00 – 7:10 AM

General Session                      7:10 – 9:29 AM

Industry Symposium             9:29 – 9:49 AM

Refreshment Break               9:49 – 10:09 AM

General Session                     10:09 – 11:56 PM

Industry Symposium

Fellows/Residents Only        12:00 – 1:00 PM

 

Thursday, May 22nd

Sunrise Breakfast                    6:30 AM

General Session                       7:15 – 9:34 AM

Refreshment Break                9:34 – 9:56 AM

Vascular Roundtable            9:56 – 10:56 AM

General Session                  10:58 – 12:07 AM

Meeting Adjourns for Faculty

AHP Symposium                 12:07 – 12:55 PM

 

Friday, May 23rd

Sunrise Breakfast               6:30 AM

General Session                  7:15 – 11:20 AM

Deep Dive Winner            11:20 AM

Closing Comments           11:30 AM

VAST Concludes

 

Residents & Fellows Competition

All faculty are encouraged to nominate one of their trainees to attend VAST and participate in the Fellows Competition. This competition offers a fresh, energetic, and engaging educational format for participants to present original research, interesting cases, or novel techniques and technologies with a focus on complex procedures, complication management, and bailouts.

Reflecting on the success of VAST 2024!

2025 Faculty

Steven Abramowitz, MD

MedStar Heart & Vascular

Institute                                      

Washington, D.C.

Fanny Alie-Cusson, MD

Sanger Heart & Vascular

Institute, Atrium Health          

Charlotte, NC

Frank Arko, MD

Sanger Heart & Vascular

Institute, Atrium Health          

Charlotte, NC

Sateesh Babu, MD

New York Medical College

Valhalla, New York

Carlos Bechara, MD

Rush Medical Center

Chicago, IL

 

Keith Calligaro, MD

Pennsylvania Hospital

Philadelphia, PA

Francis Caputo, MD

The Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio

Jae Sung Cho, MD

Case Western Reserve

University          

Cleveland, OH

Alan Dietzek, MD

Jersey Shore University

Medical Center. Hackensack

Meridien Health Network.                                        

Neptune, NJ

John Eidt, MD

Texas A&M College of

Medicine

Dallas, TX

Hosam El Sayed, MBBCh, PhD

Eastern Virginia

Medical School

Norfolk, VA

Shariff Ellozy, MD

Weill Cornell Medicine     

New York, NY

Yana Etkin, MD

Zucker School of Medicine at

Hofstra/ Northwell                                    

Hempstead, NY.

Peter Faries, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at 

Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Fatima Javairiah, MD

 

 

Manuel Garcia-Toca, MD, MS

Emory University

Grady Memorial Hospital          

Atlanta, Georgia

Karan Garg, MD

NYU School of Medicine                                      

New York, NY

Patrick Geraghty, MD

Washington University

Medical School

St. Louis, MO

Julie Glaser, MD

Penn Presbyterian

Medical Center

Philadelphia, PA

Daniel Han, MD

         

New York, NY

Kamran Jafree, MD

Vascular Care of Texas                                      

Dallas,TX

William Johnson, MD

NYU School of Medicine

New York, NY

Manju Kalra, MBBS

Mayo Clinic College of

Medicine and Science

Rochester, MN

Misaki Kiguchi, MD

MedStar Washington

Hospital Center

Washington, DC

Julia Kleene, MD

Mimmie Kwong, MD, MAS

UC Davis 

Sacrameto, CA

W Anthony Lee, MD

FAU College of Medicine

Boca Raton, Fl

Evan Lipsitz, MD, MBA

Montiefiore Medical Center          

Bronx, NY

Alan Lumsden, MD

Methodist DeBakey Heart &

Vascular Center                                     

Houston, TX

Khubaib Mapara, MD

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

David Minion, MD

University of Kentucky

Medical Center

Lexington, KY

Deepak Nair, MD, MS, MHA, RVT

Sarasota Memorial Hospital        

Sarasota, FL

Jean Panneton, MD

Eastern Virginia

Medical School                                     

Norfolk, VA

Saum Rahimi, MD

Rutgers Medical School

Robert Wood Johnson

New Brunswick, NJ

Reid Ravin, MD

 

 

Wilmington, DE

Matthew Recht, MD

TriHealth   

 

Cincinnati, OH

Jorge Rey, MD

University of Miami


Miller School of Medicine
                           

Miami, Florida      

Robert Rhee, MD

Maimonides Health

New York, NY

John Ross, MD

Master Surgeon Educator

Orangeburg, South Carolina

Salvatore Scali, MD

UF/Health Shands Hospital          

Gainesville, FL

Darren Schneider, MD

University of Pennsylvania


Perelman School of Medicine                                     

Philadelphia, PA

Peter Schneider, MD

University of California

San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Michael Schwartz, MD

New York Medical College 

Tuxedo Park, NY

William Shutze, MD

Texas Vascular Associates        

Dallas, TX

Jeffrey Silpe, MD, MS-HPeD

Zucker School of Medicine at

Hofstra University                                  

Hempstead, NY

Michael Stoner, MD, FACS, DFSVS

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY

Apostolos Tassiopoulos, MD

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

Margaret Tracci, MD, JD

University of Virginia          

Charlottesville, VA

Kenneth Tran, MD

Stanford University School

of Medicine                                    

Stanford, CA

2025 Deep Dive Competition

Coming Soon!