Vascular Disease Domain Update

Konstantinos Tsagakis, Chair

The Vascular Disease Domain has been very busy preparing an interesting programme for the 36th EACTS Annual Meeting in October. We are working to include all fields of aortic disease including open surgery and vascular treatment. Our aim is to develop a programme that will lead to some interesting and controversial discussions.

Last month the domain held its first online webinar, focusing on aortic dissection. The webinar, which is a new addition to the Academy education programme, was very well received and we look forward to announcing the next webinar to be held later in the year.

We also received some very positive feedback following the Aortic Forum, which took place in November last year. Over 300 participants attended the event, travelling from all around the world. We took a risk by holding an in-person event but the high level of interest in the Forum demonstrates the importance of this kind of symposium. The next Aortic Forum will be held in 2023.

Unfortunately, due to the changing COVID situation we have taken the decision to reschedule the ‘Introduction to Aortic Surgery’ course – the main course of the Vascular Disease Domain. This will now take place during the last week in October.