Western Vascular Society Founders Award

Learn about the Western Vascular Society Founders Award and its winners.

The Western Vascular Society Founders Award of $1000 and a commemorative plaque recognizes the best paper presented at the annual meeting by a new member who is within three years of their acceptance to the Society. It is named for the original organizing committee that met in October of 1984 and established the Western Vascular Society. This group consisted of Drs. Wesley Moore, Victor Bernhard, Sterling Edwards, Jerry Goldstone, John Porter, Robert Rutherford, and D. Eugene Strandness. The first meeting of the Western Vascular Society was held in Laguna-Nigel, California from January 23-26, 1986. At that meeting, the organizing committee met as the Executive Council and approved bylaws for the new Society and accepted a proposed list of founding members from the Western region.

2025 Founders Award Winner

Jake Hemingway, MD

University of Washington

Modern Management and Outcomes of Penetrating Upper Extremity Arterial Injuries at a Level I Trauma Center

2024 Founders Award Winner

Steven Maximus, MD

University of California, Davis Health

Multi-center Experience with an Off-the-shelf Single Retrograde Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis for Acute Aortic Pathology presented by Dr. Kathryn DiLosa

Previous Winners

2023

Sundeep Guliani, MD
University of New Mexico

2022

Mimmie Kwong, MD
University of California Davis

2021

Sharon Kiang, MD, FACS, FSVS, RPVI
Loma Linda University

2020

Leigh Ann O’Banion, MD
University of California Fresno