Vascular Surgeon W. Darrin Clouse, MD

Описание: W. Darrin Clouse, MD, is a vascular surgeon and chief of the UVA Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Clouse did some of his surgery training in the U.S. Air Force. He specializes in blood vessel disorders. His research and clinical interests include carotid artery stenosis and diseases of the supra-aortic trunk vessels.

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My name’s Darrin Clouse. I’m the division chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at the University of Virginia. The practice of vascular and endovascular surgery involves open surgery and catheter-based procedures and treatment for arterial and venous disease.

Things that have shaped my career were my 20 years in the United States Air Force. I did some of my training in surgery in the Air Force, and then I had the opportunity to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I enjoy the way that vascular and endovascular surgery, you have longitudinal care and a relationship with patients. Many surgeons don’t have that opportunity. Others perform a surgery, and once the surgery is done, the patient is healed, that particular episode of care or problem for the patient is done. For us, we do some kind of reconstruction on arteries or veins on blood vessels, and then we get to see patients again.

The reason patients should come to UVA is the reason I came to UVA to practice. That’s because I believe that the breadth and depth of anything going on in medicine is done here. I think that people approach medicine here on a people first, patient first mentality. I strive every day to make sure that the patient experience is both appropriate for their disease process, but also is one that they feel like they are involved in, that they guide, and they are part of.