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Vascular Surgery Interest Group (VSIG)

Vascular Surgery Interest Group

The Vascular Surgery Interest Group (VSIG) aims to:

Encourage a career in vascular surgery

  • To raise awareness of the specialty among medical students and promote membership
    • Create a formal program of connecting interested students with faculty
    • Faculty/resident/student dinners/mixers
    • Help set up shadowing experiences (OR, clinics, wards)
  • Invite attendings from both private practice and academia to speak on a variety of relevant topics

Take part in outreach within the community

  • Help run a health table at a local health fair, high school, or other suitable venue on relevant topics

Encourage research within vascular surgery

  • Journal clubs
  • Solicit research opportunities from faculty and provide information for interested students

Provide education to medical students

  • Attend vascular surgery conference
  • Rounds with the Chief of Vascular Surgery/Vascular surgery fellows
  • Shadow clinical experiences
  • Attend vascular operations, suturing skills, scrubbing, vascular anastomoses workshops
  • Visit simulation labs, anatomy sessions, non-invasive vascular labs
  • Study groups
  • Vascular surgery rotation tip sheet

Links

Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS): https://vascular.org/

Contact Us

2024-2025 Board

President: Brooke Kelly - bkelly12@luc.edu

Vice President: Omar Zahra - ozahra@luc.edu

Research Coordinator: William Pelit - wpelit@luc.edu

Clinical Exposure Coordinator: Ian Kang - ikang@luc.edu

M3 Liaisons: Karen Yuan - kyuan@luc.edu, Andrew Pickles - apickles@luc.edu

M4 Liaisons: Nabeeha Khan - nkhan18@luc.edu, Tommy Boland - tboland1@luc.edu, Rylie O’Meara - romeara@luc.edu 

Vascular Surgery Interest Group

The Vascular Surgery Interest Group (VSIG) aims to:

Encourage a career in vascular surgery

  • To raise awareness of the specialty among medical students and promote membership
    • Create a formal program of connecting interested students with faculty
    • Faculty/resident/student dinners/mixers
    • Help set up shadowing experiences (OR, clinics, wards)
  • Invite attendings from both private practice and academia to speak on a variety of relevant topics

Take part in outreach within the community

  • Help run a health table at a local health fair, high school, or other suitable venue on relevant topics

Encourage research within vascular surgery

  • Journal clubs
  • Solicit research opportunities from faculty and provide information for interested students

Provide education to medical students

  • Attend vascular surgery conference
  • Rounds with the Chief of Vascular Surgery/Vascular surgery fellows
  • Shadow clinical experiences
  • Attend vascular operations, suturing skills, scrubbing, vascular anastomoses workshops
  • Visit simulation labs, anatomy sessions, non-invasive vascular labs
  • Study groups
  • Vascular surgery rotation tip sheet

Links

Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS): https://vascular.org/

Contact Us

2024-2025 Board

President: Brooke Kelly - bkelly12@luc.edu

Vice President: Omar Zahra - ozahra@luc.edu

Research Coordinator: William Pelit - wpelit@luc.edu

Clinical Exposure Coordinator: Ian Kang - ikang@luc.edu

M3 Liaisons: Karen Yuan - kyuan@luc.edu, Andrew Pickles - apickles@luc.edu

M4 Liaisons: Nabeeha Khan - nkhan18@luc.edu, Tommy Boland - tboland1@luc.edu, Rylie O’Meara - romeara@luc.edu