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About Us<\/strong>
\nThe Vascular Society of Aotearoa New Zealand<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1760928472638{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}” local_scroll_id=”intro”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1764906852691{margin-bottom: 40px !important;border-left-width: 2px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}” wpex_border_color=”#03a3de” text_align=”left” color=”#03a3de” font_family=”ref-lato” font_weight=”700″]Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

Our History<\/a><\/p>\n

Meet the Executive Team<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Vascular Society of Aotearoa New Zealand is a multidisciplinary organisation dedicated to advancing care, research, and education in vascular diseases.<\/h2>\n

Vascular surgery focuses on the management and treatment of conditions affecting arteries, veins, and the lymphatic system\u2014excluding the heart and brain. Our members are committed to excellence in clinical care, guided by evidence-based medicine, ongoing research, and the development of best-practice protocols. The Society also provides expert advice to regional, national, and government bodies on matters relating to vascular health. As a registered incorporated society, we serve as a focal point for New Zealand\u2019s vascular community, supporting collaboration and innovation across the field.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” remove_bottom_col_margin=”true” local_scroll_id=”history” css=”.vc_custom_1760923710555{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/cmcdeploytwo.co.nz\/vsoanz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wave.svg?id=324) !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;}” wpex_bg_position=”bottom right” wpex_bg_size=”500px” wpex_bg_overlay=”custom” wpex_bg_overlay_color=”#e7e7e7″ wpex_bg_overlay_opacity=”85%”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1760922104136{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]\n

Our History<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner column_spacing=”50″ equal_height=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Toward the end of the 1980s the Section of Vascular surgery of the Division of General Surgery of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons required new members to undertake a one year training program post fellowship in an approved centre in Australia or New Zealand but with no formal assessment on completion. This was a step forward for the coming of age of Vascular Surgery. The vascular sectional meetings at the time of the Annual Scientific Congress of the college had grown in strength during the 1980s, and the main international meeting was the International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery with an increasing involvement of Australasian vascular surgeons.<\/p>\n

At Beppi\u2019s Italian Restaurant in Sydney in 1991 Bill Shirer, Andre van Rij, Murray MacCormick, Ross Blair, and Lindsay Spilman (Obex) agreed that it was time for a New Zealand society of Vascular surgery to be established. With the inaugural meeting of the Vascular Society of New Zealand held at Wairakei February 1992, with guest speaker Mr. Colin Strachan from the UK, the society was launched. Annual meetings continue in Feb, with distinguished visiting speakers and attended by surgeons, radiologists, physicians, and associates including sonographers, radiographers and nurses. In addition the meeting provides a forum for vascular surgical trainees, junior surgical staff and students to present papers.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]At the inaugural meeting Bill Shirer was elected the first president of the Society and he is celebrated with the Shirer Lecture which opens the scientific sessions of the annual meeting.<\/p>\n

The Society is forever grateful to Lindsay Spilman and Linda Roberts of Obex for their support through the years.<\/p>\n

When drafting the constitution of the society in 1991 it was considered important that membership required participation in audit of their vascular work through the newly established Otago Vascular Audit. The value of this had been shown by the Swedish Vascular Audit, Swedvac, lead by David Bergqvist. The data provided not only an audit of competence, but also assisted in planning vascular surgical services. Ian Thompson chaired the audit committee for many years, and this has been ably continued by Jo Krysa, both from Dunedin.<\/p>\n

With the establishment of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Vascular Surgery, replacing the Division of Vascular Surgery in the RACS, in the late 1990s, the audit data is now collected by that group, with the New Zealand data still monitored by the NZ Audit Committee, and presented at the Vascular Society of NZ meeting.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1764906961964{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}” local_scroll_id=”exec” el_id=”exec”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1760922125470{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]\n

Our People<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Chairperson<\/strong>
\nDr Kes Wicks[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Treasurer<\/strong>
\nDr Giri Mahadevan[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Secretary<\/strong>
\nDr Lupe Taumoepeau[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Full Member<\/strong>
\nDr Murray Cox[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Full Members<\/strong>
\nDr Mark Morgan[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Audit representative<\/strong>
\nDr Manar Khashram[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Audit representative<\/strong>
\nDr Jo Krysa[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Vascular nurse representative<\/strong>
\nMs Heather Schulz[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Vascular sonographer representative<\/strong>
\nMs Gerry Hil[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]ANZSVS Representative<\/strong>
\nDr Mark Jackson[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″]
\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=”” text_align=”center”]Research representative<\/strong>
\nGreg Jones[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1764906823973{padding-top: 30px !important;}” wpex_bg_color=”#e7e7e7″ local_scroll_id=”surgeon” el_id=”surgeon”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]\n

Find A Surgeon<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” remove_bottom_col_margin=”true” wpex_bg_color=”#e7e7e7″ css=”.vc_custom_1764906805487{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_accordion style=”flat” shape=”square” c_icon=”chevron” active_section=”-1″ collapsible_all=”true” title=”North Island”][vc_tta_section title=”Auckland & Northland” tab_id=”1764906222457-fc148e60-4bde”][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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  • Dr Russell Bourchier \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Parminder Chandhok \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Ian Civil \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Anastasia Dean \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Donald Harris \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Andrew Hill \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Carl Muthu \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Kareem Osman \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Sam Taylor \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Peter Vann \u2014 Auckland City Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Giri Mahadevan \u2013 Middlemore Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Stuart Caldwell – Middlemore Hospital<\/li>\n
  • Dr Sergei Tchijov \u2013 Middlemore Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Waikato” tab_id=”1764906222468-510cefaa-f30c”][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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    • Dr Chris Holdaway \u2013 Waikato Hospital<\/li>\n
    • Dr Manar Khashram – Waikato Hospital<\/li>\n
    • Dr David Ferrar \u2013 Waikato Hospital<\/li>\n
    • Dr Paul Haggart – Waikato Hospital<\/li>\n
    • Dr Ricky Kwok -Waikato Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Tauranga” tab_id=”1764906266125-9593f84c-5b2b”][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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      • Dr Mark Morgan \u2013 Tauranga Hospital<\/li>\n
      • Dr Phillip Thwaite \u2013 Tauranga Hospital<\/li>\n
      • Dr Luke Szczebiot \u2013 Tauranga Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Hawkes Bay” tab_id=”1764906286876-268aafce-c5d9″][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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        • Dr Albert Lo \u2013 Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”New Plymouth” tab_id=”1764906309578-c8af8031-2d99″][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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          • Dr Murray Cox \u2013 Taranaki Base Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Palmerston North” tab_id=”1764906328926-01bda84d-f3c0″][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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            • Dr Pravin Kumar \u2013 Palmerston North Regional Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Wellington” tab_id=”1764906344328-fd9993d2-4881″][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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              • Dr Kes Wicks \u2013 Wellington Hospital<\/li>\n
              • Dr Lupe Taumoepeau \u2013 Wellington Hospital<\/li>\n
              • Dr Richard Evans \u2013 Wellington Hospital<\/li>\n
              • Dr Dilip Naik \u2013 Wellington Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_accordion style=”flat” shape=”square” c_icon=”chevron” active_section=”-1″ collapsible_all=”true” title=”South Island”][vc_tta_section title=”Nelson” tab_id=”1764906222457-fc148e60-4bde”][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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                • Dr Carmen Ruiz \u2013 Nelson Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Timaru” tab_id=”1764906222468-510cefaa-f30c”][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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                  • Dr Rene van den Bosch \u2013 Timaru Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Christchurch” tab_id=”1764906266125-9593f84c-5b2b”][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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                    • Dr Tim Beresford \u2013 Christchurch Hospital<\/li>\n
                    • Dr Adib Khanafer \u2013 Christchurch Hospital<\/li>\n
                    • Dr Peter Laws \u2013 Christchurch Hospital<\/li>\n
                    • Dr Ruth Benson \u2013 Christchurch Hospital<\/li>\n
                    • Dr Oliver Lyons \u2013 Christchurch Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Dunedin” tab_id=”1764906286876-268aafce-c5d9″][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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                      • Dr Jo Krysa \u2013 Dunedin Hospital<\/li>\n
                      • Dr Sarah Lesche \u2013 Dunedin Hospital<\/li>\n
                      • Dr Claire Griffin \u2013 Dunedin Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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