JVS Author Spotlight- Bose, Hicks, and Chou

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Audible Bleeding editor Matt Chia (@chia_md) is joined by MD/PhD student Rahul Ghosh (@ghoshrx), JVS Assistant Editor Dr. Paul Dimuzio (@pdimuziomd), and JVS-VS Associate Editor Dr. John Curci (@CurciAAA) to discuss two great articles

in the JVS family of journals. This episode hosts Dr. Sanuja Bose (@SanujaBose), Dr. Caitlin Hicks (@CaitlinWHicks), and Dr. Elizabeth Chou (@LizChou), the authors of the following papers discussing sex disparities in medical management around carotid revascularization and smooth muscle cell pathobiology in carotid atherosclerosis.

Articles:

• “Females are less likely to receive best medical therapy for stroke prevention before and after carotid revascularization than males” by Bose et al.

• “Vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype switching in carotid atherosclerosis” by Chou et al.

Show Guests:

• Dr. Sanuja Bose (@SanujaBose) is a graduate from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Vascular Surgery at Johns Hopkins.

• Dr. Caitlin Hicks (@CaitlinWHicks) is an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins Department of Vascular and Endovascular surgery and the research director of the multidisciplinary diabetic foot and wound service.

• Dr. Elizabeth Chou (@LizChou) completed her vascular training at Mass General Hospital in 2022 and is currently a vascular surgeon at Cedars Sinai. Dr. Chou’s research interests include translational research in therapeutic outcomes of aortic and peripheral vascular disease and vascular disease amongst under-represented minorities and women.

Listeners may also be interested in our episode about getting started using the VQI for research.

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