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Awards

The VIVA Foundation celebrates excellence in the endovascular field, presenting the LIVE, ATLAS, VCA, and VEINS awards.

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The LIVE Award

A Leader In EndoVascular Education Award — The LIVE Award recognizes those vascular specialists who have dedicated their professional careers to educating students, postgraduate trainees, and peers in all aspects of vascular medicine and intervention.

The VIVA Foundation is proud to honor the 2024 LIVE Award recipient:

Andrej Schmidt, MD

Prof. Dr. Andrej Schmidt earned his medical degree at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He then completed his training as an angiologist and cardiologist at the University of Dresden Carl Gustav Carus and at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg. There, he connected with Prof. Dr. Dierk Scheinert and moved with him to Leipzig to build up the Department of Interventional Angiology at the Heart Center Leipzig, where the team found a perfect environment to develop a center for innovative endovascular treatment of peripheral artery occlusive disease. Together with Prof. Giancarlo Biamino, Prof. Schmidt helped to develop the Leipzig Interventional Course (LINC), one of the world’s largest and leading courses on endovascular interventions. Since 2014 he has served as the head of the cath lab for endovascular therapy of patients with vascular and aneurysmatic disease and is a professor at the University of Leipzig. Prof. Schmidt specializes in the treatment of complex peripheral vascular and aortic disease and has a special interest in developing novel treatment techniques.

Previous LIVE Award Recipents

2023

MARIANNE BRODMANN, MD

2022

DANIEL CLAIR, MD

2021

JAMES F. BENENATI, MD

2019

BRUCE H. GRAY, DO

2018

DIERK SCHEINERT, MD

2017

THOMAS ZELLER, MD, PhD

2016

MARK BATES, MD

2015

TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, MD

2014

J. MICHAEL BACHARACH, MD

2013

JOHN LAIRD JR., MD

2012

MICHAEL DAKE, MD

2011

MARK WHOLEY, MD

2010

MICHAEL R. JAFF, DO

2009

GARY ANSEL, MD

2008

EDWARD DIETHRICH, MD

2007

L. NELSON HOPKINS III, MD

2006

BARRY KATZEN, MD

2005

KENNETH ROSENFIELD, MD

The ATLAS Award

A Teacher, Leader, And Scholar Award — The ATLAS Award celebrates the career and impact of physicians who have distinguished themselves as scholars and leaders in their respective vascular fields. They have committed their careers to advancing the care of patients with vascular disorders, and they have taught countless numbers of physicians techniques to expand care across the United States and the world.

The VIVA Foundation is proud to honor the 2024 ATLAS Award recipient:

Alan H. Matsumoto, MD

After receiving his medical degree in 1980 from Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University and being elected to the Alpha Omega Honor Society, Dr. Matsumoto completed residencies in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts and diagnostic radiology at the University of North Carolina. He completed additional fellowship training in vascular and interventional radiology at Georgetown University. He is currently Professor of Radiology in the Department of Radiology at the University of Virginia, where he has been a faculty member since 1991 and served as its Department Chair from 2008-2023. He has published more than 300 articles and book chapters and has been involved in the training of more than 250 diagnostic radiology residents and 125 VIR fellows/residents.

He has served as President of the Society of Interventional Radiology, the Virginia Radiological Society, and the Southeastern Angiographic Society, and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Board of Radiology and gold medals from the Society of Interventional Radiology and Association of VIR Technologists. He is currently the Chair of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors.

Previous ATLAS Award Recipents

2023 PETER A. SCHNEIDER, MD
2022 MICHAEL DAKE, MD
2021 JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, MD
2019 CHRISTOPHER J. WHITE, MD
2018 FRANK VEITH, MD
2017 NICK HOPKINS, MD
2016 THOM ROOKE, MD
2015 GARY S. ROUBIN, MD
2014 BARRY T. KATZEN, MD
2013 JERRY GOLDSTONE, MD
2012 JOHN SPITTELL, MD
2011 GIANCARLO BIAMINO, MD, PHD
2010 ERNEST RING, MD
2009 JESS YOUNG, MD
2008 NORMAN HERTZER, MD

The Vascular Career Advancement Award

VIVA and LINC have collaborated to develop the Vascular Career Advancement Award to recognize young physicians who show promise as potential leaders in the vascular field. Recipients are selected for their dedication to a philosophy of multidisciplinary vascular care and improving the care and outcomes of patients with vascular disease.

The VIVA Foundation is proud to honor the 2024 VCA Award recipients:

Jordan R. Stern, MD

Jordan R. Stern, MD, is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. A proud Canadian, Dr. Stern earned a Bachelor of Medical Sciences from the University of Western Ontario, followed by an M.D. from The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Chicago, and his clinical fellowship in vascular and endovascular surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine/Columbia University Medical Center. Prior to joining the faculty at Weill Cornell, Dr. Stern was an Associate Professor of Surgery at Stanford University.

Dr. Stern also serves as Director of Research for the Division, with a robust publication history of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, editorials, and abstracts. His primary academic and clinical interests are the treatment of aortic disease, he has developed and described several novel treatment strategies for complex aortic pathologies, and he has served as principal or co-investigator on multiple industry-sponsored device trials.

Lorenzo Patrone, MD

Dr. Lorenzo Patrone is a vascular and interventional radiology consultant based in Florence, Italy. After finishing his training in interventional radiology and working for one year in his hometown of Genoa, he worked for 8.5 years in London in a newly-created and innovative department that merged vascular surgery and interventional radiology, West London Vascular and Interventional Centre. Since then, he has served as a hybrid vascular specialist: in addition to operating endovascularly on a wide range of patients, he started running regular vascular clinics and ward rounds for vascular in-patients. He recently joined San Giovanni di Dio Hospital in Florence with the ambition to establish a robust limb salvage program for the 1.6 million people covered by ASL Toscana Centro. His main focus is lower-limb recanalization and diabetic foot management. Moved by a true passion for teaching, he has published and presented widely on innovative mini-invasive techniques, and has participated in collaborative research, trials, and endovascular training all around the world.

Previous VCA Award Recipents

2022 - 2023 KUSH R. DESAI, MD; & TATSUYA NAKAMA, MD
2021 - 2022 ERIC A. SECEMSKY, MD, MSc; & EVA FREISINGER, MD
2020 - 2021 VENITA CHANDRA, MD; & YOSHIMITSU SOGA, MD, PhD
2019 - 2020 STEVEN KUM, MD; & PARAG J. PATEL, MD, MS
2018 - 2019 OSAMU IIDA, MD; & SABINE STEINER, MD
2017 - 2018 EHRIN ARMSTRONG, MD; & DANIELA BRANZAN, MD
2016 - 2017 SAHER SABRI, MD; & ANTONIO MICARI, MD
2015 - 2016 RAGHU KOLLURI, MD, MS; & THEODOSIOS BISDAS, MD, PHD
2014 - 2015 FELIX MAHFOUD, MD; & GUSTAVO ODERICH, MD
2013 - 2014 MEHDI SHISHEHBOR, DO; & MARTIN WERNER, MD

The VEINS Award

Venous Educator, Innovator, and National Statesperson Award - The VEINS Award honors those individuals who have made significant contributions to improving the care of patients with venous disease.

The VIVA Foundation is proud to honor the 2024 VEINS Award recipient:

Kathleen Gibson, MD

Dr. Kathleen Gibson is a board-certified vascular surgeon and partner at Lake Washington Vascular Surgeons in Bellevue, Washington. She graduated with highest honors from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Her fellowship, residency and undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering were all completed at the University of Washington. She serves on the Executive Board of the American Vein and Lymphatic Society, and is its current President. She is a distinguished member of the American Venous Forum and is a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery. She has authored or co-authored multiple book chapters and articles and has been an investigator for more than 42 clinical trials. She has been a speaker at multiple conferences in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

Previous VEINS Award Recipents

2023 STEVE ELIAS, MD
2022 RAGHU KOLLURI, MD, MS
2021 MARK H. MEISSNER, MD
2019 SURESH VEDANTHAM, MD
2018 SAMUEL Z. GOLDHABER, MD
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