Please join us this Friday to learn about alternative access in endovascular procedures.

Congratulations to our chair, Dr. Gilbert R. Upchurch, on being honored with the 2025 Flance-Karl Award from the American Surgical Association! Gilbert Upchurch 🐊🐊🐊

Excited to match Drs. James Fitzgibbon from Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery, Christopher O'Neil from UM/JMH General Surgery, and Jonathan Krebs from UF Surgery! Welcome to the UF Vascular team!

Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Krebs UF Surgery Residents who has matched into vascular surgery fellowship here at UF UF Vascular UF Surgery 🐊💪 We are thrilled to have him remain in the gator surgery family!

Congratulations to Dr Perez Agaba UF Surgery Residents UF Surgery on matching into vascular surgery at the University of Pittsburgh UPMC Vascular Surgery ! We are so proud of you and your outstanding match🐊💪

Really enjoyed giving CV grand rounds on patient-centered outcomes research and the state of NIH funding for vascular surgeons at UTHealth Houston today! UTHealth Houston Heart & Vascular UF Vascular Firas F Mussa

Fantastic presentation from UF Medicine student Griffin Stinson at SVS Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI)® at #VAM25! “Factors associated with absence of preop ABI ipsilateral to planned PAD procedures in southeast VQI database”

Great presentation from UF Surgery Residents Michael Fassler VESurgery at #VAM25! “Comparative outcomes of extremity vascular trauma after establishing a dedicated trauma hybrid operating room” UF Surgery Tyler Loftus FutureVascSurgeons

Excellent talk on Access-related Hand Ischemia by Dr. Salvatore Scali at #VAM25!! UF Surgery Society for Vascular Surgery

Congratulations to UF Vascular’s Dr. Samir Shah!! Samir Shah

Congratulations to general surgery residents Michael Fassler, M.D., and Maksymilian Pilecki, M.D., on receiving prestigious research fellowship awards from the Frederick A. Coller Surgical Society! 🐊🐊 Read more about their important research 👇 surgery.med.ufl.edu/2025/07/16/col…

Congratulations to the graduating fellows! Dr. Kha Tran will be joining Division of Vascular Surgery at IUSM and Dr. Derek Leaderer will the joining AdventHealth in Orlando. Good luck with next steps in your careers!

See how quality improvement in the Division of Vascular Surgery leads to better patient experiences, and why the division has been recognized by the Society for Vascular Surgery's Vascular Quality Initiative. Society for Vascular Surgery #vascsurg surgery.med.ufl.edu/2025/08/04/fro…