Doctor Afshin Assadian

About the Doctor

Publications

• In November 2019, the Austrian Book Market published the Vascular Disease Patient's Guide under his editorship

Membership

• Member of the board of the Austrian Society for Vascular Surgery

• Member of the board of the International Vascular Surgery Foundation

• Austrian Society for Surgery (ÖGC)

• European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)

• American Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)

Experience

• Scientific representative of the Austrian Forum for Vascular Surgery

• President of the Austrian Society for Vascular Surgery since March 1, 2009

• Since March 1, 2009, head of the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Wilhelminenspital Hospital in Vienna

Education

• 12. 2008 Assistant Professor at the department of surgery at the Medical University of Vienna

• 08.1998 USMLE Step II

• 10.1996 USMLE Step I

• Internships abroad in the UK (Norwich & Norfolk Hospital, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital), in the US (Chicago and Stanford Universities), and in Germany (Munich)

• 04.2010 Diploma in "Endovascular Surgery" and "Specialist in Endovascular Surgery" (DGG)

• 06.1996 Graduation from Medical University with a diploma in "Endovascular Surgery" and "Endovascular Specialist" (DGG)

• 09.2002 Test to assess clinical skills

• 10.2003 Permanent certification from ECFMG (Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates)

• 09.2007 Member of the European Board of Vascular Surgery, ESBQ-VASC

Services

• Supraaortic branches

• Aorta: conventional and endovascular aortic surgery

• Internal arteries: conventional and endovascular treatment of constricting and dilative pathologies of all internal arteries

• Leg arteries: conventional and endovascular treatment of constricting and dilative pathologies of the leg arteries

• Dialysis surgery

• Varicose vein surgery