Vascular Interventions Online 2022: On-demand

Prof Stephen Black is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and a Professor of Venous Surgery at Kings College, London. He is the Site Lead for Surgery at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the Co-R&D Lead for the Cardiovascular Directorate (Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery). He was Clinical Lead for Vascular Surgery for 4 years (2019-2023).

Dr Black is the Co-founder & Medical Director of UK Vein Clinic. In private practice he undertakes medical consultations and minimally invasive procedures at 150 Harley Street, London, UK. For complex work, Dr Black's private practice is at Harley Street HCA Clinic in London and Ramsey Ashtead Hospital in Surrey.

His principal clinical interest is the treatment of venous disease. Prof Black has established a large practice in the treatment of both Acute and Chronic Deep Venous Disease as well as superficial venous disorders and together with…

Dr Rick de Graaf studied medicine at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD at the Department of Surgery and Medical Microbiology of the Maastricht University Medical Centre. He received his radiology training at the Maastricht University Medical Centre and obtained his board licence in 2010.

In 2010, he started the endovascular treatment of deep venous obstructions at the interventional radiology department in Maastricht. This led to international collaboration with the University Hospital in Aachen and the Arnsberg Clinic, Germany. He is a well-respected physician, with more than 60 scientific publications and numerous presentations on venous interventions.

Dr de Graaf is currently Director of Radiology, Interventional Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Clinical Centre of Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Dr Rick de Graaf is Section Editor of Vascular and Endovascular Review Journal.

Dr Narayanan Thulasidasan is a consultant interventional radiologist at at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Narayanan has authored or co-authored several articles published in leading peer-reviewed journals, has lectured widely, and has served as a speaker at several leading international vascular events.

Dr Andrew Wigham was appointed as a Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Oxford University Hospitals in 2014. He completed his medical training at Imperial College School of Medicine in 2002. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2006 before training in Interventional Radiology at the Royal Free Hospital, London, attaining Fellowship of the Royal College of a Radiologists in 2011.

Andrew has a special interest in the treatment of venous disease. Shortly after being appointed in Oxford, he established the deep venous program, which is now recognised as a national centre of excellence. 

Dr Emma Wilton is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

Dr Wilton completed her medical training at the University of Cambridge in 2000. She was awarded her Certificate of Completion of Training in General and Vascular Surgery in November 2016 following higher surgical training in the Oxford/Thames Valley Deanery. This also included a year as an Endovascular Fellow at St George’s Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. 

Following completion of higher surgical training she undertook a further clinical fellowship at St Thomas’ Hospital, where she developed a specialist interest in the management and intervention of aortic disease, including complex aortic pathology, using both open and endovascular operative techniques. She also developed a specialist interest in the management and intervention of deep venous disease.

Dr Emma Wilton is on the editorial board…

Dr Van Rijn finished writing and defending her thesis Dissecting the genetics of stroke in 2007. After that she has done research in the field of both aortic and venous disease with publications in peer-reviewed journals and has written several book chapters on these subjects. Dr Van Rijn organizes the conference Intoveins, which is held every other year in Rotterdam. She is the leading researcher in multiple ongoing studies at her department. Dr Van Rijn is part of the editorial board of The European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and the Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Review. Dr Van Rijn was a member of the writing committee of the updated ESVS guidelines on chronic venous disease which was published in January 2022 and is the co-author and co-editor of the Dutch textbook Phlebology.

Dr Marie-Josee Van Rijn is on the editorial board for Vascular and Endovascular Review…

Mr Taha Khan is a Consultant Vascular and Endovascular surgeon at the Manchester Vascular Service and is the deep venous surgery lead. He is also a lead for the venous thromboembolism service.
Mr Khan graduated from Imperial College London with his MBBS in 2002. He obtained an MD in vascular tissue engineering from the University of Leeds and completed his higher surgical training in the South West deanery with an advanced surgical fellowship in robotic endovascular surgery at Imperial College.

He has a keen interest in the management of deep venous disease and completed his Post-CCT Fellowship in Deep Venous Surgery at St Thomas' Hospital (London) before taking up his position as a Consultant.
He has lectured extensively on the management of acute and chronic deep venous disease. He is active in venous research and venous education with faculty positions on European venous workshops.

Prakash Saha is a clinical senior lecturer at Kings College and honorary consultant endovascular surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK where he is the clinical lead for venous and lymphoedema surgery.

Following the completion of his Wellcome Trust-funded PhD in 2012, Dr Saha has remained active in research and been awarded research grants from the Royal College of Surgeons, Royal Society of Medicine, Academy of Medical Sciences and the British Heart Foundation. He has published in more than 50 peer-reviewed journals and received prizes from the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, an International Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis, and an Early Career Investigator Award from the American Heart Association.

Interests

• endovascular aortic repair;
• lower limb revascularisation;
• venous thrombosis.