Vascular Surgery Residency

The Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy at Loyola Medicine provides opportunities for training in Vascular Surgery that include a five year integrated vascular surgery residency (0+5) as well as a traditional two-year fellowship (5+2).

Both programs are ACGME accredited and provide exposure to the entire spectrum of arterial and venous disease, and includes non-operative care, as well as open surgical and endovascular management. To learn more about this residency program, please click the Program Overview page located on the left-hand navigation bar.

While Loyola Medicine's Vascular Surgery Residency program was recently created, the Fellowship program was created in 1978 with the primary objective of providing comprehensive training for the management of arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases.

In addition to the clinical training we offer at Loyola University Medical Center and the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, we added other training sites at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital and MacNeal Hospital. This allows the trainees to be exposed to a variety different practice settings as well as different pathologies.

Loyola University Medical Center is an academic hospital associated with Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine. This tertiary care center offers the spectrum of open vascular and endovascular cases, including cerebrovascular, aortoiliac and infrainguinal occlusive disease, thoracic, abdominal and thoraacoabdominal aneurysms, visceral arterial disease, arteriovenous access and venous interventions.

The vascular service at Loyola supports the facility's busy Level 1 trauma center. The volume and complexity of both open and endovascular procedures easily fulfills Vascular Surgery training program case requirements. In addition to participating in the operating room, catheterization lab, and outpatient clinic, trainees are expected to supervise and lead the team of medical students, surgery residents and podiatry residents rotating on the vascular service.

The Vascular Surgery training programs at Loyola Medicine are geared towards, but not exclusive to, surgeons who are interested in an academic career. We emphasize acquiring endovascular techniques, open surgical skills, a noninvasive vascular laboratory background and involvement with clinical research projects. It is expected that each trainee presents and/or publishes one research project per year of training.

Thank you for your interest in our programs.

Michael Soult, MD 
Assistant Professor of Surgery 
Program Director, Vascular Surgery Residency and Fellowship 
Phone: 708-327-3431 
Fax: 708-327-3492 
Email: Michael.Soult@lumc.edu