Dr. Vicente Riambau has a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona and a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is head of Vascular Surgery at the Cardiovascular Institute of the Hospital Clínico de Barcelona.

Since 1990 he has been a specialist in Angiology and Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, treating diseases of the circulatory system.

He is currently Professor of Surgery at the University of Barcelona and a member of the most prestigious scientific societies related to vascular surgery around the world. He is Visiting Professor at the Universities of Stanford (USA), Pittsburg (USA) and Belgrade (Serbia). He is Former President of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS), President of the American Society for Angiology (Spanish Section) and Vice President of the ISVS (International Society for Vascular Surgery). He is a member of 15 editorial committees of international scientific journals and directs the Spanish publication Técnicas Endovasulares.

Founder and President of the Endovascular Foundation. But his main merit is the attention to his patients, to whom he dedicates himself full time.

Marc Sirvent, MD, PhD, FEBVS, is an Angiologist & Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon, with a special focus on the Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) & Diabetic Foot. He is recognized by his colleagues & the industry as a reference in the PAD & Diabetic Foot treatment, endorsed by his numerous publications & trials, as well as, the actively training courses to other professionals as Proctor & his participation in workshops, congresses, advisories & many other activities with high impact.

CV Brief:

Marc Sirvent, MD, PhD, FEBVS, has a wide professional & educational career as an Angiologist & Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon, developing his extensive capabilities in different public & private Hospitals. Currently he is the Chief of the Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department at the General University Hospital of Granollers, Catalonia.

During the last years he has focused on the treatment of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) and Diabetic Foot, being the Director of the PAD Program and Head of the Diabetic Foot Unit at the General University Hospital of Granollers, positioning himself as a national & international proctor & reference for other colleges. In this line is an actively consultant for the industry, involving himself in the new products development & evaluation, providing trainings, proctoring, webinars, advisories… to many specialists eager to further their knowledge.

He has a PhD in Surgery and Morphological Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona since July 2024 with the thesis entitled “Outcomes of drug-coated balloon angioplasty after plain or scoring balloon for vessel preparation in patients with femoropopliteal arterial disease”.

He has been author & co-author of numerous national & international publications, as well as, several clinical trials, leading & participating in projects funded by the Intituto de Salud Carlos III. He is also part of consolidated research groups recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the CIBER of CardioVascular diseases.

He directs, organizes, and collaborates in many courses and workshops focused on endoluminal therapy, most of them accredited by the Consell Català de Formació Continuada de les Professions Sanitàries, la Comisión de Formación Continuada del Sistema Nacional de Salud or l’European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.

Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Specialist in Angiology and Vascular Surgery (University Clinical Hospital of Santiago de Compostela). Former secretary of the SNACV. Former secretary of the SGACV. Head of the Angiology and Vascular Surgery Service of the University Hospital Complex of A Coruña (CHUAC). Co-director of SITE/SAM.

Gaspar Mestres, MD, PhD, FEBVS, is a vascular surgeon of the Vascular Surgery Division, Cardiovascular Surgery Department – Cardiovascular Institute. Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. Gaspar Mestres was born in 1979 in Barcelona, Spain. He received his MD from the University of Barcelona in 2003, completed the internship and residency in Angiology and Vascular Surgery in Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Autonomous University of Barcelona) in 2009, obtained the PhD in 2010 in the same university in endovascular aortic surgery research, and achieved the FEBVS in 2011. He is a staff member of the Vascular Surgery Division in the Hospital Clinic (Barcelona, Spain) since 2009, surgeon in charge of the Vascular Access Unit of the Hospital Clinic (regional reference center in vascular access creation and maintenance), and Professor of the Faculty of Medicine (University of Barcelona) since 2020.

His current research focuses mainly on vascular access surgery (access creation and follow-up, pre and intraoperative ultrasound assessment, chronic vascular access flow measurements and dysfunction detection, early postoperative vascular access thrombosis, imaging study of vascular access anastomosis, and new devices in vascular access) and endovascular aortic surgery. In this field, research is focused on populational studies in AAA repair performance, late performance of aortic endografts, uncommon complications of endografts, its applications in uncommon diseases or in off-label conditions, and in-vitro performance of endografts in off-label indications, as parallel stent technique.

Medical Doctor in 1984 University of Oporto Faculty of Medicine.

Specialist in Angiology and Vascular Surgery in 1995; working as Vascular Surgeon since 1996 in Hospital São João, Porto.

He was fellow of the EBVS the 1st September 1999 (first Portuguese entitled) and became Senior Consultant in 2008. Was named honorary professor at the University of Valladolid in 2022.

Director of the Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery May 2012/ February 2022

President of the Portuguese Society of Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery (SPCCTV 2017 /2018)

President of the International Symposium of Angiology and Vascular Surgery since 2012 (renamed to Porto Live in 2019).

Editor in Chief of the Journal of the SPCCTV (2012-2016; indexed in PubMed (913 abstracts, actually) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=rev+port+vasc

Reviewer of IJS (International Journal of Surgery; impact factor 2023 15.4)

More than 20 International presentations including CLIC, CICE, ECSVS amongst others. Co-author of articles published in JVS and ESVS journals.

Fernando Gallardo, MD, is an Angiologist and Vascular/endovascular surgeon of the Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department, Hospitales QuironSalud Malaga and Marbella, Málaga, Spain.

Dr. Fernando Gallardo was born in 1981 in Málaga, Spain. He received his MD from the University of Málaga in 2006, completed the internship and residency in Angiology and Vascular Surgery in University Hospital of A Coruña in 2012. After his residence his training was completed with stages at international world references, as St. Mary´s Hospital London, UK, Hôpital Arnaud De Villeneuve, Montpellier, FR, and Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Hawaii, USA. He has been a staff member of the Vascular Surgery Departments in the Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela and Hospital San Rafael (A Coruña, Spain) from 2012 to 2015. Since 2015 he has been working at Hospitales Quironsalud Malaga and Marbella, at Costa del Sol, south of Spain. Since 2010 Dr. Gallardo has been co-responsible for the training and e-learning program of the ESVS and co-director of international symposiums as SAM, SITE, ESVS AGM. From 2017 is a member of the scientific committee of the SACVA (Sociedad Andaluza de Angiología y C Vascular) and has been recently elected as secretary of this society in 2021. Professor collaborator with the Faculty of Medicine (University of Málaga) since 2019.

His research focuses mainly on abdominal aortic aneurysms, EVAR, and new therapies and advances for PAD and vascular access. Dr Gallardo is also involved in new technologies for the invasive treatment of venous thromboembolic diseases, such as Pulmonary Embolism and complex DVT therapies. In this fields, research is focused on the analysis of mid term results of the multicenter SACVA EVAR registry, of which he is the main investigator, studying the consequences of EVAR therapies in hostile necks and out of IFU´s.

Dr. Gallardo is a very active vascular surgeon in social networks, as linkedin where he has more than 7000 followers and scientific posts with more than 20.000 visualizations and also an active collaborator of scientifics network projects as Vascupedia, and others webinars and online courses.

Angiologist and Vascular Surgeon. Head of service University Hospital Sagrat Cor and Hospital General de Catalunya since April 2015. Licensed by the faculty of medicine of the Universitat Central Hospital Clínico y Provincial . 1991. Specialist as angiologyst and vascular surgeon in Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. Barcelona 1993 -1997.

Associated surgery professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona. Hospital Clinic since June of 2015. PhD in Medicine of the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona from october 2013 He was head of Vascular Surgery service in HOSPITAL PLATO from 1999 to 2015. Author of about forty articles and speaker at over 200 times in conferences and round tables specialty.

He has devoted special attention to minimally invasive treatments for arterial and venous disease and has promoted endovenous procedures such endolaser, radiofrequency, MOCA, GLUE and ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy. In 2012 he set up his own private clinic, CLINICA VASCULAR BARCELONA.( www.vascularbarcelona.com)

Founder and managing director of VB Devices (www.vbdevices.com), a company which is developing some medical devices including the first automated system for microfoam production (VARIXIO®) and a device for securing guidewires and catheters ( CRABCLAMP®). Both of them currently launched in Europe since February 2021.

Xavier Yugueros is a Vascular Surgeon of the Vascular Surgery Division, Cardiovascular Surgery Department – Cardiovascular Institute. Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. Xavier Yugueros was born in 1982 in Barcelona, Spain. He received his MD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2006 and completed the internship and residency in Angiology and Vascular Surgery in 2012 at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Autonomous University of Barcelona). He achieved the FEBVS in 2014 and obtained the PhD in 2019 at University of Barcelona with his research on in-vitro studies of parallel stent technique in endovascular repair of AAA.

He is a staff member of the Vascular Surgery Division in the Hospital Clinic since 2005, surgeon of the Vascular Access Unit of the Hospital Clinic (a regional reference center in vascular access creation and maintenance), and Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine (University of Barcelona) since 2020. He is also the coordinator of the Training Programme for Residents in Vascular Surgery in Hospital Clinic since 2021.

His current research focuses mainly on vascular access surgery and endovascular aortic procedures. He is also interested in creation and use of surgical simulators for teaching in Vascular Surgery, being member of the Innovation and Research Committee of the Clinical Simulation Group (SIMClinic) in Hospital Clinic.

Dr. Hernando Rydings is an Angiologist and Vascular/Endovascular surgeon of the Vascular Surgery Department of Clinico San Carlos Hospital.

He completed his residency in Clinico San Carlos Hospital in Madrid in 2012 and he completed his training with stages at Cleveland Clinic, Royal Free Hospital in London and in the German Aortic Center in Hamburg in 2019. In 2015 he obtained his PhD in the Complutense University of Madrid wining the prize of best doctoral thesis of the SEACV (Spanish Society of vascular Surgery) in 2016. From 2013 to 2023 he was working in Bilbao focused in the endovascular treatment of complex aortic aneurysms.

Dr. Luis Miguel Salmerón, graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Granada in 1986. He was a specialist in Angiology and Vascular Surgery via MIR at the San Cecilio University Hospital in Granada in 1993.

He won the “Extraordinary Prize” by the University of Granada in 1997. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Granada since 2005. He was the tutor of Residents of A. and C. Vascular from 2005 to 2014. President of the Andalusian Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery from 2009 to 2013. He is currently Head of the Angiology and Vascular Surgery Service at the San Cecilio University Hospital in Granada.

I am María Gómez Mota. I have been working in the health field since 2011. My experience has a nurse has been in the Emergency Department as well as on the ward taking care of hospitalised patients. Currently, I am part of the Angiology and Vascular Surgery Service at Quirón Marbella and Campo de Gibraltar Hospitals. I have just completed the Master’s Degree in Continuing Education in Vascular Nursing: Ulcers and Peripheral Pathologies. I am a nurse committed to my professional development, always in the process of learning and continuing my vocational education.

Judith Prats has been a nurse since June 2006 and has more than 14 years of experience as an intensive care nurse in the Cardiovascular Surgery ICU.

She has been Nursing Coordinator of the Cardiovascular Surgery Hospitalization unit since March 2021 and Coordinator of the Advanced Practice Nurses of the Cardiovascular Clinical Institute of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

She combines her work at the hospital with the roles of Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Advanced Cardiovascular Therapeutic Techniques at the University of Barcelona and Coordinator of the Critics group of the Official College of Nurses of Barcelona.

Fernando Gallardo, MD, is an Angiologist and Vascular/endovascular surgeon of the Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department, Hospitales QuironSalud Malaga and Marbella, Málaga, Spain.

Dr. Fernando Gallardo was born in 1981 in Málaga, Spain. He received his MD from the University of Málaga in 2006, completed the internship and residency in Angiology and Vascular Surgery in University Hospital of A Coruña in 2012. After his residence his training was completed with stages at international world references, as St. Mary´s Hospital London, UK, Hôpital Arnaud De Villeneuve, Montpellier, FR, and Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Hawaii, USA. He has been a staff member of the Vascular Surgery Departments in the Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela and Hospital San Rafael (A Coruña, Spain) from 2012 to 2015. Since 2015 he has been working at Hospitales Quironsalud Malaga and Marbella, at Costa del Sol, south of Spain. Since 2010 Dr. Gallardo has been co-responsible for the training and e-learning program of the ESVS and co-director of international symposiums as SAM, SITE, ESVS AGM. From 2017 is a member of the scientific committee of the SACVA (Sociedad Andaluza de Angiología y C Vascular) and has been recently elected as secretary of this society in 2021. Professor collaborator with the Faculty of Medicine (University of Málaga) since 2019.

His research focuses mainly on abdominal aortic aneurysms, EVAR, and new therapies and advances for PAD and vascular access. Dr Gallardo is also involved in new technologies for the invasive treatment of venous thromboembolic diseases, such as Pulmonary Embolism and complex DVT therapies. In this fields, research is focused on the analysis of mid term results of the multicenter SACVA EVAR registry, of which he is the main investigator, studying the consequences of EVAR therapies in hostile necks and out of IFU´s.

Dr. Gallardo is a very active vascular surgeon in social networks, as linkedin where he has more than 7000 followers and scientific posts with more than 20.000 visualizations and also an active collaborator of scientifics network projects as Vascupedia, and others webinars and online courses.

Álvaro Moreno, is a vascular surgeon of the Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department of the Gregorio Marañón Hospital of Madrid, Spain.

Dr. Álvaro Moreno was born in 1991 in Madrid, Spain. He received his MD from the University Complutense of Madrid in 2016, completed the internship and residency in Angiology and Vascular Surgery in Gregorio Marañon Hospital.

Álvaro also dedicates his time to collaboration in the practices carried out in the Angiology and Vascular Surgery Service for medical students studying at the Gregorio Marañón University Hospital within the Degree in Medicine and Surgery of the Complutense University of Madrid.

He has accreditation 1&2 level of radiological protection oriented to interventional practice and accreditation as vascular sonographer by National Spanish Society (October 2021).

He also dedicates his time to research work, he is collaborator in the international registry Covid-Surg (with published results in The Lancet, BJS and Anesthesia) and the “PAXA registry”, as well has been co-author of book chapters and presented communications at congress.

Clara Raventós was born in 1998 in Barcelona, Spain. She received her MD from the International University of Catalonia 2016-2022. She is a current first year Angiology and Vascular Surgery resident at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.