Education Network of Training Centers
APPLICATION FOR VAS ENDORSED VASCULAR ACCESS EDUCATIONAL CENTER
The idea is creating education network of training centers in Europe and other countries endorsed by the vascular access society (VAS), where attendees will be able to upgrade their knowledge of all aspects of vascular access creation and maintenance. The VAS endorsement will be given for one year and will be renewed after receiving from the trainees a concise report on the center.
VAS invites every center who wants to join our VAS endorsed Vascular Access Educational Center, to apply according to the guidelines below.
Please send in a free style application form with a brief description of the center, providing the data mentioned in the guidelines.
Please click here to open and download the guidelines.
VAS-endorsed training centers
Nuova ITOR Multispecialist Clinic - Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis
Rome, Italy
Click here to open the application from Nicola Pirozzi representing the Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis works within the Nuova ITOR Multispecialist Clinic.
Miulli General Hospital - Nephrology Unit
Bari, Italy
Click here to open the application from Carlo Lomonte representing the Nephrology Unit at the Miulli General Hospital in Italy.
Vascular Access Center Henry Dunant HC and 2nd Dp of Vascular Surgery NKUA, "LAIKON" General Hospital Athens
Athens, Greece
Click here to open the application from Georgios Chatzantonis, Alexandros Mallios, and Christos Klonaris
LIST OF AMBASSADORS
Nick Inston
Renal Transplant - University Hospitals Birmingham
United Kingdom
We can offer observer ships or longer term visiting fellow positions.
Please contact: nicholas.inston2@uhb.nhs.uk
Tamara Jemcov
Clinical Hospital Center Zemun
Serbia
Dr Tamara Jemcov is a Head of Nephrology department at Clinical Hospital Center Zemun (Belgrade, Serbia), with expertise in ultrasonography. She has been working as a vascular access coordinator for more than 10 years at University Clinical Center of Serbia (Belgrade, Serbia). In 2013, she obtained a PhD with her thesis titled “Correlation of the Physiological, Biochemical and Morphological Parameters and Outcomes of the Native Arteriovenous Fistulas for Hemodialysis”. She was involved in the Serbian National Register of Vascular Access, who publish an annual report on vascular access for haemodialysis. Dr Jemcov is a member of ERBP's vascular access guideline development group, as well as a council member of the Vascular Access Society (VAS).
Email: tamara.jemcov@kbczemun.bg.ac.rs
Jan Malik
General University Hospital in Prague
Czech Republic
Jan Malik is practising vascular access ultrasonography for 20 years. He is interested in the ultrasound diagnostics of various vascular access pathologies and also in the hemodynamical effects of arteriovenous access. He also does pre-op ultrasound mapping and vein puncture under ultrasound guidance. Besides Czech, he speaks English and Russian. Email: jan.malik@vfn.cz
Antonio Norton de Matos
Hospital Santo Antonio Porto
Portugal
I am directing a vascular access team completly dedicated to vascular access in the North of Portugal dealing with 3000 patients on dialysis. In the last 5 years, I also made multiple working visits to Angola (Luanda and Lobito) and to Cape Verde (ex-portuguese colonies in África) and I am preparing the necessary bureaucracies to start cooperation with Saudi Arabia. In these places I am doing surgery and organizing and teaching vascular access procedures. Email: a.nortondematos@gmail.com
Matteo Tozzi
University of Insubria
Italy
Varese Vascular Surgery performs approximately 400 surgical and endovascular procedures on vascular access every year; It is particularly devoted to the early cannulation graft program for the reduction of patients depending of Tcvc. Email: matteo.tozzi@mac.com
Matthias Widmer
Inselspital
Switzerland
Organizing twice a year a practical workshop of two days to train vascular access surgery: www.vascular-international.org