Get a Pulse on PAD Campaign

Nishi Vootukuru (@Nishi_Vootukuru) and Dr. Ezra Schwartz (@ezraschwartz10) interview Dr. William Shutze and Dr. Anahita Dua (@AnahitaDua) to discuss the Get a Pulse on PAD Campaign.

The Get a Pulse on PAD initiative (#PulseonPAD), launched in February, 2024, is a patient education and advocacy campaign designed to increase the understanding of peripheral artery disease's risk factors and potential symptoms.  

Dr. Shutze is a vascular surgeon with Texas Vascular Associates in Dallas, Texas and the Secretary of the SVS. Dr. Shutze completed his medical studies at Baylor University after completing general surgery residency at University of Alabama in Birmingham. Dr. Shutze returned to Baylor to complete his vascular fellowship. Dr. Shutze is one of the Get a Pulse on PAD initiative’s chairs and a leading expert in PAD. He has actively published in the field with over 100 abstracts and articles, with his most recent work focusing on prosthetics, and advocating for successful prosthetic referral after amputation. 

Dr. Dua is a vascular surgeon at Mass General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. At Mass General, she is the director of the Vascular Lab, co-director of the Peripheral Artery Disease Center and Limb Evaluation and Amputation Program (LEAPP), associate director of the Wound Care Center, director of the Lymphedema Center and director of clinical research for the division of vascular surgery. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Vascular Surgery-Vascular Insights. Dr. Dua completed her undergraduate medical studies at the Aberdeen University School of Medicine in Aberdeen, Scotland. She then completed her general surgery residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin and vascular fellowship at Stanford University Hospital. She holds multiple master’s degrees including degrees in trauma sciences and business administration in healthcare management. She also completed certificate programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in health economics and outcomes research as well as in drug and device development. Dr. Dua is a prolific researcher, researcher, and advocate, with much of her work centered on PAD. She furthers patient care not only through research but through her political work as Founder of the Healthcare for Action political action committee (PAC) and member of the SVS PAC Steering Committee. 

Special thank you to Jacob Soucy (@JacobWSoucy)

Resources:

• https://www.secondscount.org/get-a-pulse-pad

• https://evtoday.com/news/pad-pulse-alliance-survey-highlights-disconnect-in-public-knowledge-of-pad-risks

• Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC)

• Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI)

• Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)

• CardioVascular Coalition (CVC)

• Outpatient Endovascular and Interventional Society (OEIS)

• https://vascular.org/advocacy/political-action-committee

• https://evtoday.com/articles/2021-may/the-arc-act-fighting-amputation-via-legislation

• https://evtoday.com/articles/2006-may/EVT0506_10.html#:~:text=The%20Screening%20Abdominal%20Aortic%20Aneurysm,screening%20as%20a%20Medicare%20benefit

• CLariTI Study: Natural Progression of High-Risk Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia

• Socioeconomic and hospital-related predictors of amputation for critical limb ischemia

• ARC Act of Congress

• Painkiller: TV Series 

• Congressman Payne 

• SAAAVE Act

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