TEACHING FACULTY
Dr Varcoe is a vascular surgeon at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital where he is supervisor of vascular surgical training and director of the Vascular Institute, one of Australia’s most prestigious clinical trials centres. His busy clinical practice specialises in thoracic aortic conditions, carotid stenting and the full gamut of diverse endovascular treatments for occlusive arterial disease of the lower limb.
He has a strong academic interest in novel stent and anastomotic technologies, the investigation of intimal hyperplasia, particularly computer flow dynamic modelling and cellular mechanisms, the application of intra-operative ultrasound to endovascular techniques, regional foot perfusion mapping following tibial angioplasty and bioresorbable scaffold technology applied below-the-knee.
He is a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales where he teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is founder and course director of the New South Wales journal club meeting and the VERVE symposium, an annual endovascular summit run in conjunction with LINC Australia.
He is a member of numerous learned societies, has published more than 30 peer reviewed manuscripts and two book chapters, is an invited reviewer for the Journal of Endovascular Therapy, International Angiology, ANZ Journal of Surgery, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, International Journal of Surgery, World Journal of Surgery and Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Endovascular Therapy and has been invited to speak both nationally and internationally on more than 60 occasions.
He has a strong academic interest in novel stent and anastomotic technologies, the investigation of intimal hyperplasia, particularly computer flow dynamic modelling and cellular mechanisms, the application of intra-operative ultrasound to endovascular techniques, regional foot perfusion mapping following tibial angioplasty and bioresorbable scaffold technology applied below-the-knee.
He is a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales where he teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is founder and course director of the New South Wales journal club meeting and the VERVE symposium, an annual endovascular summit run in conjunction with LINC Australia.
He is a member of numerous learned societies, has published more than 30 peer reviewed manuscripts and two book chapters, is an invited reviewer for the Journal of Endovascular Therapy, International Angiology, ANZ Journal of Surgery, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, International Journal of Surgery, World Journal of Surgery and Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Endovascular Therapy and has been invited to speak both nationally and internationally on more than 60 occasions.