Division of the Month: Vascular Surgery
18 May 2024
Dr. Yassin Abdulrehman
Dr. Yassin Abdulrehman is a vascular surgeon whose research interest focuses on clinical
outcomes in patients undergoing a variety of vascular surgical interventions.
He is the Medical Director of the Canadian Regional Vascular Quality Initiative (CVQI)
and the current Quality and Outcomes Chair for the Canadian Vascular Society (CSVS).
In his role with the Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery he has been advocating for
increased awareness of Quality Improvement Research and has created the Sigvaris
Quality Improvement Award that will be introduced at the upcoming CSVS national
meeting, Sept 2024. For context, The Vascular Quality Initiative is an international
registry that prospectively follows patients undergoing vascular procedures. There are
more than one thousand participating centres with seven of those being in Canada. This
database allows for an ongoing analysis of outcomes at our centre and improvements in
patient care.
Locally, Dr Abdulrehman, has been very active at our site. Since taking on the role as
VQI Physician Lead at the Grey Nuns’ Hospital he has spearheaded a number of
Quality Improvement projects and research. Past projects have looked at compliance
with best practice discharge medications, use of foley catheter and length of stay in
Vascular Surgical patients, and use of percutaneous closure devices to reduce costs.
Most recently Dr. Abdulrehman has formed collaborative clinical research partnerships
with members of the Interventional Radiology team with publications outlining
methodologies for CT angiographic reporting to aid in planning vascular procedures.
His team’s work entitled “Stratification of Endovascular Revascularization Technical
Outcomes Using the Global Limb Anatomic Staging System” has been accepted for
presentation at this year’s SVS Vascular Annual Meeting, the premier North American
vascular scientific meeting.