Ali F. AbuRahma is a tenured Professor of Surgery, Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Director of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship and Residency Programs of West Virginia University, Charleston. He also serves as Medical Director of the Vascular Laboratory and Co-director of the Vascular Center of Excellence at Charleston Area Medical Center. He attended Alexandria University Medical School and completed his general surgery residency at the State University of New York and West Virginia University and his vascular fellowship at Arizona Heart Institute. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery, Vascular Surgery Board, and Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in Vascular Surgery. His contributions to the SVS/regional vascular societies in our specialty are numerous. As noted in the next few paragraphs, his scholarly endeavors have led to active membership in over two dozen professional vascular/surgical societies, for example, Society for Vascular Surgery (since 1991) (Distinguished Fellow), American Surgical Association, Southern Surgical Association, Southern Association for Vascular Surgery, Eastern Vascular Society, and International Society of Endovascular Specialists. He has served in many of these societies on the regional/national level: President (2014-2015) of the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery, President of the Eastern Vascular Society (2010-2011), the Board of Directors of the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (2006-2012), SVS Membership Chairman (2009-2010), Advisory Board to the President of xxiii the SVS (2005 -2006) and Chairman of the SVS Foundation Development Committee (2013 -2015), Board of Directors of SVS and SVS Foundation (2013 -present). Additionally, Dr. AbuRahma served as the Secretary of the Society for Vascular Surgery from 2016 to 2019, Vice President from 2019 to 2020 and as President-Elect from 2020 to 2021. He is currently serving as President and his term runs from 2021 to 2022. He has served/is serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Vascular Surgery, Annals of Vascular Surgery, Journal of Endovascular Therapy, Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, and Vascular Specialist; he is the Associate Editor of the journal, Vascular, and a reviewer for several other medical journals. Dr. AbuRahma has an avid interest in vascular surgery and has dedicated his life to research, earning him a national and international reputation for his contributions in this field. As a result, he has published over 275 articles in peerreviewed journals, over 200 abstracts, 125 book chapters, and eight textbooks in vascular surgery (seven in noninvasive vascular diagnostics and one vascular/endovascular surgery combat manual). He is also Associate Editor of the eighth, ninth, and tenth editions of Rutherford 's Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy. He has also made presentations at over 560 national and international medical meetings, including many named distinguished lectures (e.g., Rutherford lecture at John Hopkins, John Bergan lecture at Northwestern University, Yale lecture, W. Andrew Dale lecture at Vanderbilt, James M. Seeger lecture at the University of Florida, Gainesville, William H. Baker lecture at Loyola, etc.). He also serves on the advisory and scienti fi c committees of the Veith Symposium since 2014. He has also received many regional/national awards, including the Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award in Biosciences and Health Sciences of West Virginia University (which is given to one faculty member annually among all WVU Health Sciences); the William J. Maier, Jr. Health Sciences Education Award, West Virginia University (awarded to the physician who contributed the most to education and research); Honorary Chairman of Annual Vascular Fellows xxiv About the Editors Award, New York, NY; Honorary Chairman of the Pennsylvania Hospital Vascular Symposium, Philadelphia, PA; and the Society for Vascular Surgery Presidential Citation Award (2016). Recently, Dr. AbuRahma was given an Honorary Membership in the German Vascular Society (2018).
Bruce A. Perler Julius H. Jacobson II, M.D. Professor of Surgery The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Vice-Chair for Clinical Operations, Department of Surgery, Chief Emeritus, Division of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy, and Director of the Vascular Noninvasive Laboratory The Johns Hopkins Hospital Dr. Perler received a Bachelor 's of Arts degree, Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1972 from Duke University and his M.D. in 1976 from the Duke University School of Medicine. In 2004 he received a Master of Business Administration from the Johns Hopkins University and received the Outstanding Student Award in the class. He completed his internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital as well as a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Vascular Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Perler joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1982 and was named the first recipient of the Julius H. Jacobson II, M.D. endowed Chair in Vascular Surgery. He has served as Director of the Vascular Noninvasive Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins Hospital since 1982. In 1998 he established the Vascular Surgery Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and served as Director until 2009. Dr. Perler was named the Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy at Johns Hopkins in January 2002. In 2013, he was named the ViceChair for Clinical Affairs and Finances for the Department of Surgery and became Chief Emeritus of the Division of Vascular Surgery. Dr. Perler has edited or co-edited five textbooks, and is currently the Co-editor of Rutherford 's Textbook of Vascular Surgery and About the Editors xxv Endovascular Therapy, ninth edition and tenth edition (in preparation). He has authored more than 250 medical journal articles and textbook chapters on the diagnosis and treatment of the entire spectrum of circulatory diseases. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Vascular Surgery Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vascular, and the Annals of Vascular Surgery, and from 2009 to 2016 served as the Senior Editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery, as well as being the co-founder and Senior Editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders and the Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases. He has held many leadership positions in vascular surgery. From 2015 to 2016 he served as President of the Society for Vascular Surgery and from 2016 to 2017 as Chair of the SVS Foundation. He has also served as President of the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery, the Eastern Vascular Society, and the Chesapeake Vascular Society. In 2021 he received the Rudolph Matas Lifetime Achievement Award for the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery. In 2016 he was selected to serve as the Associate Executive Director of the American Board of Surgery for Vascular Surgery, and in 2019 was named the Vice President of the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Perler has received the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award by the surgical house staff at Johns Hopkins. He has delivered more than 350 lectures as a faculty member at national and international symposia and postgraduate courses, and as a Visiting Professor. In addition to his longstanding interest in cerebrovascular disease and especially carotid endarterectomy, and the surgical and endovascular treatment of PAD and limb salvage revascularization, his clinical surgical expertise includes the evaluation and treatment of aortic and peripheral aneurysms and renal and mesenteric occlusive disease. He served from 1989 to 2017 as a Consultant to the Circulatory Devices Panel, Center for Devices and Radiologic Health of the Food and Drug Administration.
