Scientific and Organizational Conceptof the First Congress of the International Vascular Surgery Association (IVSA)
📍 Location: Dortmund, Germany – Radisson Blu Hotel, Conference Halls 2 & 3
📅 Date: Saturday, 8 November 2025
🕘 Time: 09:00 – 17:15
🍽️ Dinner: From 18:00
👥 IVSA General Assembly: From 19:30
🌐 Congress Language: German (with selected presentations in English)
🔹 Morning Program (09:00 – 12:00): Hands-on Workshops
To kick off the congress, two parallel hands-on workshops will be offered. Participants will be divided into two groups, each training in a separate room:
🗓️ Workshop Schedule:
- 09:00 – 09:15: Registration & Organizational Introduction
- 09:15 – 10:30: First Practical Session
- 10:30 – 10:45: Coffee Break
- 10:45 – 12:00: Second Session with Advanced Techniques
- 12:00: End of Workshops
- 12:00 – 13:15: Lunch Break & Registration for the Afternoon Scientific Program
🔧 Workshop 1 – Vascular Ultrasound & Duplex Diagnostics
Instructors: Esmaeel Heggy & Anas Hijazi
📍 Location: Hall 2
- Hands-on training in duplex ultrasound
- Hemodynamic flow measurement techniques
- Venous and arterial puncture
- Clinical case interpretation
🧵 Workshop 2 – Vascular Anastomosis on Anatomical Models
Instructors: Muhannad Nasif & Ahmad Qozat &
Mohammed Farhouda & Mohammed bin Hani
📍 Location: Hall 3
- Microsurgical suturing techniques using lifelike vascular models
- Parachute Technique
- Continuous anastomosis technique
- End-to-end, end-to-side, and side-to-side anastomoses
- Instrument handling and Surgical simulation
📚 Afternoon Scientific Program
🕐 Welcome and Start of Presentations: 13:15
🕑 Time per Presentation: 10 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussion (15 minutes total)
🗓️ Block 1 | 13:15 – 15:30
13:15 – 13:30
🔹 Esmaeel Heggy
Chief of Vascular Surgery, Endovascular and Surgical Center Nienburg/Weser
President, International Vascular Surgery Association (IVSA)
Opening Lecture: Welcome Address and Introduction to IVSA & Congress Concept
Time | Speaker | Title |
13:30–13:45 | Dr. Jörg Teßarek – Chief Surgeon, Bonifatius Hospital Lingen | Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) in Vascular Surgery: Applications and Clinical Relevance |
13:45–14:00 | Dr. Hisham Kawara – Chief Surgeon, HEH Braunschweig | Pedal Reconstruction in Critical Limb Ischemia |
14:00–14:15 | Mohanad Nasif – Chief Surgeon, Sanitas MVZ Wuppertal | Autologous, Temporarily “Conditioned” Vein Conduits via Arterialization |
14:15–14:30 | Doctor-medic Fahed Kiswani – Senior Consultant, Klinikum Esslingen | Thoracic Outlet Syndrome |
14:30–14:45 | Nawras Diab – Senior Consultant, University Heart Center Freiburg | Iatrogenic and Traumatic Cardiac Injuries: Diagnostics and Therapy |
14:45–15:00 | Dr. Fadi A. Saab – Medical Director, Michigan Outpatient Vascular Institute, USA (online – English) | Endovascular Revascularization in Chronic Limb Ischemia (Visual – English) |
15:00–15:15 | Esmaeel Heggy Surgical Director of Vascular Surgery medical center, Nienburg /Weser | Minimally Invasive Laser Therapy for Varicose Veins |
15:15–15:30 | Mahmoud Naheel – Senior Consultant, University Hospital Magdeburg | Carotid Disease Update |
☕ Coffee Break: 15:30 – 16:00
🗓️ Block 2 | 16:00 – 17:15
Time | Speaker | Title |
16:00–16:15 | PD Dr. Konstantinos Stavroulakis – Chief Surgeon, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Klinikum Rheine | Aortic Surgery – Modern Strategies and Endovascular Techniques |
16:15–16:30 | Dr. Walid M. Masoud – Consultant Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon, Specialty Hospital Amman – Jordan (English) | Vasculer Surgery in Jordan (English) |
16:30-16:45 | Dr. Walid M. Masoud – Consultant Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon, Specialty Hospital Amman – Jordan | Central Venous disease in dialysis Patients (English) |
16:45–17:00 | Dr. Hadeel Brockmeier – Chief of Angiology, Asklepios Klinik Weißenfels | Endovascular Arterialization of Deep Veins – Why and When? |
17:15–17:30 | M.B.Ch.B. Almahdi Ali – Senior Consultant in Vascular Surgery, Helios Klinik Cuxhaven | Ipsilateral Paradoxical Thromboembolic Event with Deep Vein Thrombosis and Acute Limb Ischemia |
17:30–17:45 | Anas Hijazi – Senior Consultant, University Hospital Magdeburg | Insights into Modern Wound Management |
17:45-18:00 | Ahmed Abo Alnada Chief of Vasculer Surgery in Shifa hospital & Ibrahim Ramdan Chief of Vasculer Surgery in indonesia hospital | Vasculer surgery in Gaza 2024, and 2025 (English /German) Visual |
🔚 Closing Remarks: 18:00 by Esmaeel Heggy
🍽️ 18:00 – 19:30 – Dinner for all participants at the Radisson Blu Hotel Restaurant
👥 19:30 – 21:00 – IVSA Members’ General Assembly
✅ Important Notes:
- All lectures will be moderated – please adhere strictly to the allocated times.
- Active discussions following each presentation are highly encouraged.
- Certificates of participation will be provided after the congress.
