Bernardo C. Mendes, M. D. is a Consultant in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic, and is Associate Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Dr. Mendes received his medical degree from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil in 2008 and completed general surgery residency at Santa Casa de Misericordia de Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2012. He subsequently joined the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic as a Research Fellow with focus on endovascular treatment of complex abdominal and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms. He joined the vascular surgery integrated residency at Mayo Clinic in 2013, during which time he received a number of honors, including the Fellow Teacher of the Year Award in 2018, and the Mayo Brothers Distinguished Fellowship Award in 2017, the highest honor a trainee can receive at Mayo Clinic. He joined the faculty at Mayo Clinic in 2018 and was named Assistant Professor of Surgery in 2019, Associate Professor of Surgery in 2022 and is currently Associate Program Director of the Fellowship and Integrated Residency programs. Dr. Mendes is an assistant editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery publications and Editorial Board member for Annals of Vascular Surgery, and reviewer for the Journal of Endovascular Therapy, Journal of Vascular Surgery, Seminars in Vascular Surgery, The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, and Vascular. To date, he has delivered over 80 national or international presentations, and published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He currently leads the complex aortic endovascular program at Mayo Clinic. His main clinical interests are open and endovascular treatment of complex aortic pathology with fenestrated and branched stent-grafts.

Dr. Bjoern D. Suckow is a vascular surgeon and qualitative health services, researcher. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Vascular Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. During his surgical training, he completed a two-year clinical research fellowship and a Clinical and Translational Science Award-funded Master?s Program under the mentorship of Philip Goodney, MD, MS, and Larry Kraiss, MD. Areas of focus Aneurysm disease ? aortic and peripheral Cerebrovascular and carotid disease Peripheral arterial disease Endovascular treatment of aneurysms and arterial occlusive disease Mesenteric and renal artery occlusive disease Health services research

Carlos Timaran, M.D., is Professor of Surgery and Chief of Endovascular Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, USA. He is an internationally recognized expert in advanced endovascular techniques. Dr. Timaran earned his medical degree from the University of Cauca Faculty of Health Sciences in Colombia in 1991. He completed surgical residencies at the National University of Colombia and the University of Tennessee Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in vascular surgery at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He joined UT Southwestern in 2004, and he earned a master?s degree in clinical sciences with distinction from UT Southwestern in 2008. Dr. Timaran is dual certified in vascular surgery and general surgery by the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Timaran is an expert in the minimally invasive treatment of aortic diseases. Under his direction, the UT Southwestern Advanced Aortic Endovascular Program has expanded over the past 10 years. The Aortic Program has evolved to a point where most aortic pathologies can be repaired using total endovascular techniques. For this purpose, Dr. Timaran now offers repairs not only using currently approved devices, but also the full gamut of pre-manufactured fenestrated and/or branched off-the-shelf and custom-made devices through several industry and physician-sponsored Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) protocols. The least invasive nature of these procedures has resulted not only in quick recovery, but improved outcomes for both high-risk and conventional-risk patients, for which protocols are available.

Eric Verhoeven was born in Belgium in 1960. During his youth, he lived and followed school in different countries including Germany and France. He received his MD degree at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1988. After graduating in General Surgery (Leuven, 1994) he moved to The Netherlands for a fellowship in Vascular Surgery at the University Medical Center Groningen, and accepted a position as Consultant Vascular Surgeon one year later. He set up an endovascular programme in cooperation with the surrounding peripheral hospitals. In 2005, he completed his PhD entitled ?Endovascular Aneurysm Repair: Results and exploration of new frontiers? at the University of Groningen. In November 2009, he accepted a position as chief of the department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery in Nuremberg (Germany). In January 2011, he was awarded a guest-professorship of Surgery at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. In October 2011, he accepted a professorship in Vascular Surgery at the University of Leuven, Belgium. In 2014, he became full professor in vascular surgery at the Paracelsus Medical University of Nuremberg. His main interest, both clinical and scientific, continues to be the treatment of complex aortic aneurysms with fenestrated and branched grafts, with now experience in more than 1300 cases. He presented results of his work in numerous congresses with more than 1000 official presentations, and has published over 300 articles and book chapters. He is married with Margo; together they have two sons (Daniel, 14, and Anthony, 13) Other interests include a wide variety of sports and travelling. He speaks several languages (Dutch, French, German, English, Spanish and Italian).

2019 Director of the Residency Program in Vascular Surgery, ?Vita Salute? San Raffaele University 2019 Director of the Postgraduate Master Course in Aortic Surgery, ?Vita Salute? San Raffaele University 2013 Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery, ?Vita Salute? San Raffaele University 2004 Organizer and Scientific Director of 8 editions of the international congress ?Aortic Surgery: How to do it? held in Milano 1998 Vice-Chief - Dept. Vascular Surgery, H. San Raffaele, Milan, Italy 1994 Organizer and Scientific Director of 15 Courses of Surgical Techniques that were held in Milan, Siena (Italy) and Salvador Bahia (Brasil).

Hence JM Verhagen graduated from medical school in 1992 (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) after which he did three years of basic research at the Laboratory of Haematology/Vascular Surgery at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He successfully defended his PhD-thesis on Cell seeding on Vascular Grafts in 1996. He started his surgical training in the same year for which he did several rotations in different hospitals in The Netherlands, Zimbabwe and the UK. The major part of his vascular fellowship was done at the department of Vascular Surgery at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia, where he developed his special interest in minimal-invasive endovascular therapies and endovascular aneurysm treatment in particular. In 2002, he accepted a position as Associate Professor in Vascular Surgery at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands and practised there for several years. In 2007 he was appointed as Professor, Chief and trainer of Vascular Surgery at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. As an early adapter of advanced endovascular therapies, he managed to become an internationally renowned expert in this field. He has organized many basic-, and advanced international training courses on EVAR and TEVAR and is the founder of the Dutch practical course (basic and advanced) on peripheral percutaneous vascular interventions for Vascular Surgeons in which he still participates as convenor. He has performed several ?first in Man? implantations of aortic endografts and is global Principal Investigator (PI) of several Aortic Stent grafts Professor Hence Verhagen has a special interest in Aortic pathology and interventions, including cutting-edge endovascular technologies, in which he has extensive experience. Furthermore, his specific expertise includes: Carotid surgery, chronic bowel ischaemia, peripheral interventions and vascular imaging (dynamic, peri-operative and post-processing). He is president of the Dutch Society for Vascular Surgery as well as President-elect of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS), co-founder of the Cardiovascular Center Erasmus MC, board member of the Erasmus Trust fund, consultant/scientific advisor for several American medical device companies, past president of the society for surgeons in training, has more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, is member of many international vascular societies, reviewer for a variety of international scientific journals, faculty member for numerous international congresses, and has given hundreds of scientific lectures at international conferences including many keynote presentations. After being actively involved in a variety of committees within his own hospital he now expands his managerial skills by following the on-site Executive Educational course ?Managing Health Care Delivery? at the Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.

Division Chief - University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC Department of Surgery- Division of Vascular Surgery, 2019- Present Professor of Surgery - University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC Department of Surgery-Division of Vascular Surgery, 2013-present Department of Radiology, 2013-present Program Director, 2008-present

Matthew Eagleton, MD is the Robert R. Linton Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and is the Chief of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also serves as the co-Director of the Fireman Vascular Center and co-Director of the Thoracic Aortic Center. In these roles he helps to lead an internationally recognized, multi-disciplinary team interested in the management of peripheral vascular and aortic disease. Dr. Eagleton?s clinical practice and research interests focus on the use of endovascular therapy to manage complex aortic disease. Dr. Eagleton received his medical degree from the University of Rochester in 1994, and he completed his residency there in General Surgery in 2000. He completed specialty training in Vascular Surgery at the University of Michigan in 2002 and obtained advanced training in endovascular procedures at the Cleveland Clinic. Prior to his current role at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Eagleton was Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Vascular Surgery and Vascular Surgery Director of the Cleveland Clinic Aortic Center. In addition, he held the role of Program Director overseeing the educational program for the Cleveland Clinic?s Integrated Residency (0+5), Independent Fellowship (5+2) training programs in vascular surgery, as well as their Endovascular Mini-fellowship and Aortic Fellowship. Dr. Eagleton has served in a variety of national organizations including the Vascular and Endovascular Surgical Society and the Society for Vascular Surgery. He currently holds the position of Chair of the Program Committee for the Vascular Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Medicine Doctor, Angiologist, Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon. Clinical investigation in vascular medicine. Specialties: Endovascular therapy, aortic and BTK intervention

Vascular surgeon in Los Angeles, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area. He received his medical degree from University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years.

Professore Associato di Chirurgia Vascolare nel Dipartimento Universitario di Scienze Cardiovascolari e Pneumologiche Direttore UOC di Chirurgia Vascolare Direttore della Scuola di Specializzazione in Chirurgia Vascolare Membro del Consiglio del Dipartimento di Scienze Cardiovascolari Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS - Roma