Services | Vascular Surgery

For over 35 years, the Division of Vascular Surgery has been an independent academic and clinical component of the Department of Surgery.  The objectives of the Division are designed to support the mission of the Henry Ford Health System and its components, principally the Henry Ford Medical Group.  As such, the extended Vascular Surgery team strives to achieve a healthy balance of activity among its patient care, education, and research endeavors. To accomplish its mission, we interact with junior and senior residents in the Department of Surgery and, through prior arrangement through the Division, to house officers and medical students who come here from other institutions.  In addition, there exists a firmly established,  ACGME approved, two year fellowship training program in Vascular Surgery, positions for which are available through the AAMC-NIRMP.  For our fellows and residents, we also offer an extensive line of research opportunities, each of which has an established track records for producing award winning data.  By offering an extensive, vertically integrated, experience in patient evaluation, operative management and outpatient follow-up care for our patients, the surgeon-in-training is given a unique opportunity to understand the full range of vascular conditions by progressive, supervised evaluation and management of those patients.

Personnel within the Division include the senior staff, fellows, house officers, nurse case managers, clinical vascular laboratory technical and clerical staff, office clerical staff and outpatient nursing staff.  Moreover, we have evolved close, highly valued, working relationships with operating room scrub nurses, operating room technologists and the senior professional interventional radiologists. As an extended team, we offer our patients the full range of arterial vascular  reconstructions and repairs, although, our special clinical interests include, carotid and brachial cephalic reconstruction, complex aortic repair (including thoracoabdominal reconstruction), and lower extremity distal arterial reconstruction.  Henry Ford hospital has recently introduced laporoscopic and robotically assisted surgical procedures, one of the only institutions in the country to offer these technologies. This inpatient activity of the Division is centered at the Detroit Campus, in the Henry Ford Hospital.  Virtually all of our operative procedures are performed within this facility, in the Roy D. McClure Operating Suite.  Patients who require intensive and/or special care are placed in the newly operational Henry Ford II Pavilion.  Finally, juxtaposed to the hospital is the clinic building, on the 8th floor of which are the offices of the senior staff and fellows, an ICAVL approved clinical vascular laboratory, and our outpatient clinic facilities.