Helen Jones
Rouleaux Club Winning Essay 2025
STUDENT CATEGORY How can we achieve more timely revascularisation in patients with Chronic Limb Threatening Ischaemia (CLTI)? Ryan Bloxsom, University of Oxford Revascularisation is time-critical in Chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), with delayed revascularisation associated with excess amputation and mortality.1,2 From symptom onset, there are multiple, sequential delays to revascularisation, with delayed presentation, referral, Vascular review,…
Read MoreVASGBI Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, London, 15-16th September, oral presentation top abstracts
Authors of the top scoring abstracts submitted were given the opportunity to give an oral presentation of their work during our free paper session. The papers by Dr Ian Young and Dr Michael Nesbitt were joint first prize winners. An audit of the impact of a joint surgical and anaesthetic pre-op assessment clinic for…
Read MoreVS ASM 2024 prize winning Abstracts
The Vascular Societies’ Annual Scientific Meeting 2024, in conjunction with the VSGBI, BACPAR, SVN and CSVS, took place at DoubleTree by Hilton, Brighton, on the 27th-29th November 2024. Here are the 2024 prize winning abstracts. VS – Sol Cohen Founders Prize The Natural History of Splenic Artery Aneurysms: A Decade’s Experience of Surveillance and…
Read MoreEditor’s foreword
Welcome to the November 2025 edition of the JVSGBI. We have two editorials in this issue, the first editorial is the second in a series by Long and co-authors outlining the principles of, and evidence for, mentorship. This editorial details mentorship in practice – how to build a successful mentorship program and relationship. The second…
Read MoreMentorship in practice: What to expect and how to build a successful mentoring relationship
Introduction Following the first editorial in the August issue of JVSGBI,1 which outlined the value of structured mentorship in vascular surgery, this second editorial highlights what participants can expect from a mentorship programme and the core principles of starting an effective mentoring relationship, using the VSGBI mentorship programme as an example. Mentorship programme structure…
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