Seed Grant Recipients

2024

Patric Liang, MD

Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Project title: Transcriptomic Analysis of Vein Conduit Injury during Surgical Harvest

2023

Miranda Witheford, MD, MPH

University of Toronto

Project title: Deep Learning Models of Aortic Deformation after Complex Endovascular Aneurysm Repair to Predict Endograft Failure

2022

James C. Iannuzzi, MD, MPH

University of California, San Francisco

Project title: Prehabilitation using a digital app in elective inpatient vascular surgery

2021

Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar, MD

Yale University School of Medicine

Project title: Genetic variants associated with premature peripheral arterial disease

Katharine L. McGinigle, MD, MPH

University of North Carolina

Project title: Using Precision Medicine to Define Adaptive Treatment Strategies for Patients with Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia

2020

Mohammad Qadura BSc, MD, PhD

University of Toronto

Project title: Combating Anti-platelet Resistance Through Personalized Medicine

2019

Efthymios Avgerinos, MD (VAM 2019 Clinical Research Seed Grant Challenge Winner)

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Project title: The Value of Screening for "High on Treatment Platelet Reactivity" in Patients undergoing Lower Extremity Arterial Endovascular Interventions

Sikandar Khan, MD

SUNY Buffalo

Project title: Validation of Plateletcrit as a Marker of Platelet Reactivity by Comparing It with Verify Now Reactivity Assays

Shirling Tsai, MD

University of Texas Southwestern

Project title: Role of provider feedback in home-based walking programs utilizing smart devices

2018

Samantha D. Minc, MD

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Project title: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Diabetes and PAD-Related Amputations in a Rural Population

Bjoern D. Suckow, MD, MS

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Project title: Development of a Critical Limb Ischemia Quality of Life Outcome Measure

2017

Dawn Coleman, MD

University of Michigan

Project title: The Natural History and Genetics of Renal Artery Aneurysm Through a Prospective Multiinstitutional Registry

Ulka Sachdev, MD

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Project title:  Dynamic Inflammatory Networks in Chronic Venous Insufficiency

2016

Lorena Gonzalez, MD

SUNY Upstate Medical University College of Medicine

Project Title: Identifying a practical office based frailty assessment for preoperative evaluation of patients with peripheral arterial disease

Misty D. Humphries, MD

University of California Davis Medical Center

Project Title: Developing Comprehensive Care for Patients with Lower Extremity Ulcers Through Telemedicine

Salvatore T. Scali, MD

University of Florida

Project Title: Biologic determinants of frailty influencing outcomes of elective suprarenal and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

2015

Mark F. Conrad, MD, MMSc

Massachusetts General Hospital Project

Project Title: Noninvasive Assessment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Wall Structural Integrity and Inflammation as Predictors of Rupture



Rishi Kundi, MD

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Project Title: Functional benefit of exercise therapy after endovascular intervention in older patients with peripheral arterial disease



Mohamed Zayed, MD, PhD

Washington University in St. Louis

Project Title: The Lipid Micro-Environment in Atherosclerotic Carotid Artery Plaques in Diabetic Patients

2014

Dr. Hernan A. Bazan

Ochsner Clinic Foundation

Project Title:  Biomarkers in Carotid Plaque Rupture

Dr. Christopher L. Skelly

University of Chicago

Project Title:  The Human Microbiome and Risk to Cardiovascular Health Study-Stroke (The MARCH Study-Stroke)

Dr. Dai Yamanouchi

University of Wisconsin

Project Title:  Validation of a Checklist for Postoperative Wounds in Vascular Surgery

2013

Dr. Guillermo Escobar

University of Arkansas for Medical Studies

Project Title:  Urine mRNAs as a novel, early marker of acute kidney injury after contrast dye or surgery



​​Dr. Benjamin Jackson​

University of Pennsylvania

Project Title:  Biomechanical modeling and biomarkers to predict thoracic aneurysm growth

Dr. Mahmoud Malas

Johns Hopkins University

Project Title:  Correlation of vasa-vasorum volume to carotid plaque instability using contrast enhanced 3-dimensional carotid duplex ultrasound​

2012

Dr. Jean Bismuth

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas

Project Title: Quantitative Analysis of Leg Muscle Perfusion in Peripheral Arterial Disease Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging



Dr. Mark Iafrati

Tufts Medical Center

Project Title: Defining Effectiveness of Current Radiation Protection Devices and Investigating Novel Methods and Devices in Minimizing Risks of Radiation Scatter

Dr. Firas Mussa

New York University

Project Title: Patient-Centered Outcomes for Endovascular Interventions in Critical Limb Ischemia 

2010-2011

Dr. Marlene Grenon

University of California San Francisco

Dr. Erica Mitchell

Oregon Health and Science University

Dr. David Stone

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

2009-2010

Dr. Rajeev Dayal

Columbia University

Dr. Eugene Lee

University of California-Davis

Dr. Brian Nolan

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

2008

Dr. Fritz Bech

Palo Alto Institute of Research & Education

Dr. Oscar Grandas & Dr. David Cassada

University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine

Dr. Rabih Chaer

University of Pittsburgh

2007

Dr. Greg Landry

Oregon Health and Science University

Dr. Maureen Sheehan

University of Texas San Antonio

Dr. Mark Wyers and Dr. Philip Goodney​

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center