Abstract
Two areas of Vascular Surgery highly require multi-disciplinary care, namely (1) Diabetic foot problem together with peripheral arterial disease and (2) Hemodialysis access. Both conditions involve multiple chronic medical conditions that are prevalent worldwide. Management and treatment of these conditions are not one off but usually long-term including treatment for acute conditions, regular monitoring and maintenance therapy. This seminar will introduce these two conditions, recent innovations and current unmet clinical needs.
Bio
Associate Professor (Surgery) Jackie Ho is a Senior Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon with the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular Surgery in National University Health System NUHS. She is also the Director Endovascular Therapy of Vascular Surgery Division.
She graduated from the University of Hong Kong (MB, BS) in year 1995. She received training in Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong Medical Centre, and became a specialist in year 2002. She joined NUHS Singapore in 2008.
Jackie has strong interest in hemodialysis access and limb salvage for peripheral arterial disease. She regularly organizes workshops to train regional clinicians the skill and strategies for dialysis access and revascularization for peripheral arterial disease. She and few collaborators published “Practical Guide to Surgical & Endovascular Hemodialysis Access Management. Case Based Illustration” in 2015. Subsequently it had been translated to Chinese and published in 2018. She had 60 peer review journal papers published with several of these focused on hemodialysis access and limb salvage. She is also a strong believer in multi-disciplinary approach to dialysis access care. Together with various specialists and nurses, she organized the inaugural “Dialysis Access Synergy DASy” meeting in year 2017 and 2019 in Singapore. She is currently the President of the Society of Dialysis Access Specialists. She works closely with various scientists, engineers and clinicians on research projects of chronic wounds, diabetic foot ulcer prevention, angiogenesis and atherogenesis.
Registration
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