The Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, offers an ACGME accredited two-year fellowship and a five-year integrated vascular surgery residency.

Our primary objective is to prepare the trainee to function as a specialist in vascular disease management. The program emphasizes the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of vascular disease including medical management, open, and endovascular surgery.

Our Division is comprised of five full-time vascular surgery faculty, a program coordinator, one nurse practitioner, an endovascular nurse coordinator, and a clinic nurse coordinator. Within the division, our limb salvage section includes two full-time podiatric surgeons, and a nurse practitioner. We have a long and established history of training future vascular surgeons, our vascular surgery fellowship was established in 1970, and is one of the oldest, continuous running vascular surgery training programs in the country.

Our program uniquely provides a structured experience in both academic and private hospital settings. The first three years of training are spent at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a 553-bed tertiary referral safety-net county hospital. Harbor-UCLA boasts a Level 1 Trauma designation, 34 ACGME-accredited training programs, and is a primary teaching site for medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In 2016, a hospital expansion added 16 new operating rooms, a state-of-the-art Hybrid Operating room, new perioperative suites, and a beautiful new Emergency Room. The next phase of the campus plan, which is already underway, includes new outpatient buildings, with a dedicated vascular clinic and vascular lab, and most importantly, an entirely new hospital. During the final two years of training, residents will rotate to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, a 420-bed tertiary referral community hospital for a dedicated vascular surgery experience that includes: high-volume vascular surgery cases, complex open vascular surgery, and teaching in an Office-Based Interventional Lab.

Involvement in research is an integral part of the division and trainees are provided mentorship and support in developing and completing their own research projects. Opportunities for collaboration are plentiful, through both the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the Lundquist Institute. The Lundquist institute, which is on the Harbor-UCLA campus, is a non-profit research institute that receives over $65 million in funding from over 150 federal grants (NIH and DOD) as well as private sources. With approximately 400 researchers, and a robust research infrastructure, residents have ample support to pursue their research interests.

Trainees are exposed to a wide breadth of open endovascular procedures along with inpatient and outpatient management. The training consists of a balanced clinical and didactive educational program focused toward developing a fundamental understanding of vascular disease that encourages professional growth as a practitioner of vascular medicine, vascular surgery, and endovascular therapy.

Throughout the program the resident is expected to engage in self-study and academic research pursuits. At completion of the residency, competency is defined based on achievement of core competencies, professional growth, and commitment to lifelong learning. Upon completion of the program the trainee will be eligible for examination by the American Board of Surgery in Vascular Surgery.

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Vascular Faculty:

Nikhil Kansal, MD
Christian de Virgilio, MD
Nina Bowens, MD
Mark Archie, MD
Meena Archie, MD

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Vascular Faculty:

Rodney White, MD
Simon Rayhanabad, MD
Joseph Vardayo, MD
Ankur Gupta, MD
Mohammad Jaber, MD
Andre Maginot, MD
Ali Khoynezhad, MD, PhD