The Executive Board and the Nominating Committee are honored to announce the selection of Dr. James C. Stanley from Michigan, USA as the 4th President of the Frank J Veith International Society. Effective June 15, 2023.
James C. Stanley is Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Michigan, where he completed his Medical School education and Surgical Residency, following which he served as the Head of the Vascular Surgery Section (1976-2004), and became a founding Director of the University’s Cardiovascular Center (2003-2014). He had an extensive clinical practice with a major focus on complex aortic disease, pediatric and adult renovascular hypertension, and splanchnic aneurysmal disease. He has had a lifelong interest in vessel pathobiology and was the Director of the Jobst Vascular Research Laboratories (1989-2004).
Dr. Stanley has been a member of 37 professional societies including the SVS where he served as president (1995-1996), received the SVS Lifetime Achievement Award (2012), and presented the SVS Homans lecture (2021). He has given more than 700 presentations before clinical and academic societies in the United States and abroad. He was editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery (1991-1996), and he has authored more than 550 scientific articles and textbook chapters, and edited 12 medical textbooks, including two on renovascular hypertension. Dr. Stanley recently authored three personal books, Boundaries – Coming of Age in Two College Towns; Expressions of an Academic Surgeon; and Choices – A Surgeon’s Memoir.