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Matthew R. Smeds, MD

Professor of Surgery
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, Missouri

Dr. Smeds is the former chief of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at St. Louis University and program director for the vascular surgery training programs (vascular surgery residency and fellowship), and currently a tenured professor of surgery in the division as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases, Innovations, and Techniques He attended medical school at the University of Rochester, general surgery residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, and vascular surgery fellowship at St. Louis University. He was faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences prior to his current roles. He has an interest in risk factor modification in vascular surgery and was the 2016 Wylie Traveling Fellow visiting centers of excellence in tobacco cessation. In addition to broad outcomes research interests in clinical vascular surgery, he has an interest in surgical education and has multiple manuscripts and publications in this area on burnout, mock oral examinations, mentorship, and sexual harassment/gender disparity in vascular training. He sits on several committees of the SVS, VESS, VSB and APDVS and is on the editorial boards of VSCORE. He is the creator of the Advaced Practical Exposures in Vascular Surgery (APEx-VS) conference, an annual conference that provides education in surgical exposures using lightly embalmed cadavers. He would love to connect on Twitter; follow him @MattSmeds!

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