VASCULAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Full-time Peripheral Vascular Faculty
W. John Sharp, MD, FACS
Professor and Chair, Division of Vascular Surgery
Chief of Vascular Surgery at VAMC, Iowa City
Director, Vascular Fellowship Program
General Surgery Residency Program Director
Dr. Sharp is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed his general surgery residency and peripheral vascular surgery fellowship at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 1988. Following completion of his vascular fellowship he entered private practice in Port Huron, Michigan for one year. In June 1989 he returned to join the vascular faculty at the University of Iowa. He took a sabbatical year from 1995-1996 to study molecular biology. His major areas of research interest are endovascular surgery, surveillance after endovascular procedures, recurrent stenosis after arterial reconstruction, and vessel wall biology.
Timothy F. Kresowik, MD, FACS
Professor
Dr. Kresowik is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed his general surgery residency and peripheral vascular fellowship at the University of Michigan under Dr. Lazar Greenfield and Dr. James Stanley receptively. He joined the University of Iowa faculty in July of 1988. His major areas of research interest include intraoperative assessment of vascular reconstruction's, iatrogenic vascular trauma, cardiac assessment of peripheral vascular patients and health care delivery.
Rachael M. Nicholson, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
New as of Sept. 1st, 2009
Melhem J. Sharafuddin, MD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Sharafuddin is a graduate of the American University of Beirut school of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon. He completed a diagnostic radiology residency at the St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, a cardiovascular & interventional radiology research fellowship at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic, and a vascular & interventional radiology fellowship at the Washington University School of Medicine. He became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Iowa in 1997. In 2002, he became a resident in the Department of Surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and clinics, completing the residency in 2006 followed by completing a Vascular Surgery Fellowship in the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in December of 2007. He joined the Division of Vascular Surgery as an Assistant Professor in January of 2008. His current/recent research interests include autologous stem cell therapy for critical limb ischemia, computational flow dynamic modeling of stenting pattern in aortic bifurcation occlusive disease, evaluation of a bi-modular true-bifurcated, self-expanding stent design in a swine model, modulation of antioxidant enzymes as a protection mechanism against radiation injury using biochemical mimics and gene transfer strategies, effects of fluoroscopy on dermal microvascular endothelial cells, bolus chasing angiography with adaptive real-time CT, and computer based hemodynamic simulation of vascular bifurcation for assessing and optimizing bifurcation stenting patterns.
On Sabbatical through June 2010:
Jamal J. Hoballah, MD, MBA, FACS
Professor, Division of Vascular Surgery
Dr. Hoballah is a graduate of the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. He completed his general surgery residency in 1987 at New York University and a trauma/critical care fellowship also at New York University Medical Center (NYMC) in 1988. He then remained two years on the faculty of the Department of Surgery at NYMC. After completing his vascular fellowship at the University of Iowa in 1991, he joined the University of Iowa Vascular Surgery Faculty. He has obtained focused endovascular training in New York, Michigan and Europe. His major areas of research interest are endovascular surgery, infrainguinal revascularization and skeletal muscle reperfusion injury.
Current Vascular Fellows 2008-2009
Rachael Nicholson, MD, Second Year
David Wong, MD, First Year
Vascular Support Staff
Jean Hogan, Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, joined the Vascular Surgery Division in Feb. of 2007. She graduated from the Univ. of Iowa Adult/Gero Nurse Practitioner program with her Masters in Nursing in August of 2002. She evaluates new and returning clinic patients in collaboration with the vascular surgeons, along with coordinating patient care. Her interests include risk factor modification and patient education to promote their vascular health.
Sandy Roberts, RN – Vascular Nurse Coordinator
Jana Nieman – Division Secretary and Vascular Fellowship Coordinator
Vickie Beach, RN – VAMC Vascular Case Manager
Vascular Technologists:
- UIHC
- Brent Warner, RVT, Head Technologist
- T. Mae Anderson, RVT
- Edwin Miller, RVT
- Michael Powell, RVT
- Rachael Williamson, RVT
- VAMC
- John Yutzy, RN, BSN, RVT
- Nancy Rossley, RVT