SVMB Presidential address

Abstract

References

Cooke JP , Dzau VJ. The time has come for vascular medicine . Ann Intern Med 1990; 112: 138-139 .

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Deaths, percent of total deaths, and death rates for the 15 leading causes of death in 5-year age groups, by Hispanic origin, race for non-Hispanic population, and sex: US, 2003. 20 March 2006. URL: http://www.cdc.gov

European Working Group on Medical Angiology ( Bartolo M , Boccalon H , Bollinger A et al ). The case for the specialty of medical angiology . Int Angiol 1991; 10: 199-201 .

Cooke JP , Dzau VJ. Vascular medicine: an emerging clinical discipline . J Hong Kong Coll Cardiol 1994; 2: 77-80 .

Hirsch AT , Criqui MH , Treat-Jacobson D et al. Peripheral arterial disease detection, awareness, and treatment in primary care . JAMA 2001; 286: 1317-1324 .

Oka RK , Umoh E , Szuba A , Giacomini JC , Cooke JP. Suboptimal intensity of risk factor modification in PAD . Vasc Med 2005; 10: 91-96 .

Dzau VJ , Gibbons GH , Cooke JP , Omoigui N. Vascular biology and medicine in the 1990s: scope, concepts, potentials, and perspectives . Circulation 1993; 87: 705-719 .

Isner JM , Kalka C , Kawamoto A , Asahara T. Bone marrow as a source of endothelial cells for natural and iatrogenic vascular repair . Ann N Y Acad Sci 2001; 953: 75-84 .

Asai J , Takenaka H , Kusano KF et al. Topical sonic hedgehog gene therapy accelerates wound healing in diabetes by enhancing endothelial progenitor cell-mediated microvascular remodeling . Circulation 2006; 113: 2413-2424 .

10.

Powell RJ , Dormandy J , Simons M , Morishita R , Annex BH. Therapeutic angiogenesis for critical limb ischemia: design of the hepatocyte growth factor therapeutic angiogenesis clinical trial . Vasc Med 2004; 9: 193-198 .

11.

Creager MA , Hirsch AT , Cooke JP et al. Postgraduate training in vascular medicine: proposed requirements and standards . Vasc Med 2003; 8: 47-52 .

12.

Creager MA , Cooke JP , Olin JW , White CJ. Task Force 11: training in vascular medicine and peripheral catheter-based interventions. ACC revised recommendations for training in adult cardiovascular medicine core cardiology training II (COCATS 2). Steering Committee: Beller GA, Bonow RO, Fuster V . J Am Coll Cardiol 2002; 39: 1242-1246 .

13.