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SAVS Postgraduate CME Course
Wednesday January 21, 2026


The SAVS Then and Now-
Evolving Perspectives and Enduring Principles After 50 Years

Bahamian Attire Encouraged

Program & Abstracts | Postgraduate Course | Posters

12:15 pm-2:05 pm
SESSION I
Moderators: Clayton Brinster, MD
Kendal Endicott, MD
Emily Spangler, MD
12:15 pm
Opening Remarks
12:20 pm
CASE: 50 Years of Thoracoabdominal Aortic Surgery: What Would SAVS Founder Mel Williams Say?
James H. Black, III, MD

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
12:35 pm
Current Controversies in Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Julie Ann Freischlag, MD

SVS President 2013
12:50 pm
CASE: Beware of the Rare Intravenous Leiomyomatosis Causing Iliocaval Thrombosis
Tam T. Huynh, MD

Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
1:05 pm
Contributions of SAVS Presidents to Aortic Surgery
Gilbert R. Upchurch, Jr., MD

SAVS President 2021
1:20 pm
CASE: Chasing Unusual Aneurysms in a Marfan's Patient
Mitchell W. Cox, MD

UTMB, Webster, TX
1:35 pm
CASE: How to Hotwire an Aorta: A CASE: Example of Endovascular Septotomy
Patrick M. McCarthy, MD

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
1:50 pm
COFFEE BREAK

2:05 pm-3:50 pm

SESSION II
Moderators: K. Dean Arnaoutakis, MD
Clayton Brinster, MD
M. Libby Weaver, MD
2:05 pm
The Intersection of Innovation, Industry, and Vascular Surgery
William D. Jordan, Jr., MD

SAVS President 2023
2:20 pm
CASE: Large Stent Migrated to Pulmonary Artery? Call Vascular Surgery!!
Shadi Abu-Halimah, MD

WVU/Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV
2:35 pm
CREST-2: A Critical Analysis
W.C. Sternbergh, III, MD

SAVS President 2020
2:50 pm
Wisdom
Spence Taylor, MD

SAVS President 2013
3:05 pm
CASE: Incomplete Right Lower Extremity Venous Development and Left-Sided
Inferior Vena Cava
David J. Minion, MD

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
3:20 pm
CASE: Cerebral Debranching and Zone 1 TBE in the Setting of Right-Sided Aortic Arch Aneurysm
Amanda Rushing, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
3:35 pm
BEER & WINE BREAK

3:50 pm-5:00 pm

SESSION III
Moderators: Clayton Brinster, MD
Kendal Endicott, MD
Yazan Duwayri, MD
3:50 pm
CASE: Hybrid Approach to Multifocal Aortic Pseudoaneurysms
Michael J. Stoner, MD

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
4:05 pm
CASE: Management of an Aortoiliac Occlusion in the Setting of Previously Ruptured Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm
Grant Woodruff, MD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
4:20 pm
CASE: Refractory Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome Managed with Open Release and Aortoceliac Bypass
Peter Foster, MD

Ochsner, New Orleans, LA
4:35 pm
CASE: Veni, Vidi, Vena Cava — We Came, We Saw, We Reconstructed
Marie E. Unruh, MD

LSUHSC, New Orleans, LA
4:50 pm
The Secret Sauce
Samuel Money, MD, MBA

SAVS President 2017
5:05 pm
CLOSING DISCUSSION / PANEL Q&A
5:10 pm-5:15 pm
CLOSING REMARKS