Specialty Areas   Surgical and endovascular treatment of carotid disease Endovascular abdominal and thoracic aneurysm repair Difficult aortic problems Pediatric renovascular and visceral reconstruction Education and endovascular simulation Thoracic outlet syndrome AV access for dialysis (routine and challenging problems) Brachiocephalic arterial disease and central vein reconstruction

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Education/Training

• AB Harvard University, 1984
• MD Cornell University Medical College, 1988
• Resident, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1988-1995
• Fellow, Vascular Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1995-1997

Appointments

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

• Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, 2003-present
• Associate Professor of Surgery, 2003 - present
• Assistant Professor of Surgery,1997-2001
• Program Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program, 2004- present

Societies

• Association for Academic Surgery
• Association of Military Surgeons of the United States
• Eastern Vascular Society
• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• American Venous Forum
• International Society for Vascular Surgery
• Peripheral Vascular Surgical Society (Councilor-at-large)
• Society for Vascular Surgery (Distinguished Academic Fellow)
• Rochester Vascular Society (President)

Selected Research in Progress

• Site Principle Investigator: “RHEOSÔ: A study of Baroreflex Hypertension Therapy in Refractory Hypertension (Feasibility Phase and Phase III Study).” CVRx, Maple Grove, MN.
• Site Principle Investigator: “ZenithÒ TX2Ô THORACIC TAA Endovascular Graft Clinical Trial (03-536).” Cook, Inc, Bloomington, IN.
• Site Co-Principle Investigator: “CAPTURE (Carotid RX ACCULINK/ACCUNET Post-Approval Trial to Uncover Unanticipated or Rare Events) Post-Approval Study for the RX ACCULINK Carotid Stent System and RX ACCUNET Embolic Protection System (EPS)( 04-715).” Guidant, Santa Clara, CA.
• Site Surgical Investigator: “CREST (Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stent Trial (99-705).” NIH NINDS, Bethesda, MD.
• Co-investigator: “Achieving Competence Today (ACT)/Partnerships for Quality
• Principle Investigator: “Study of the Role of an Endovascular Simulator in Training and Skills Identification.”

Selected Publication

• Illig, KA, Surowiec, S, Shortell, CK, Davies, MG, Rhodes, JM, Green, RM: Hemodynamics of distal revascularization-interval ligation (DRIL) for AVF-associated steal. In press, Annals of Vascular Surgery.
• Illig, KA: Statistics for the Vascular Surgeon. APDVS Basic Science Curriculum, 2004:
• Hsu, J, Younan, D, Pandalai, S, Gillespie B, Jain, R, Schippert, D, Narins, C, Khanna, A, Surowiec, S, Davies, MG, Shortell, CK, Rhodes, JM, Waldman, D, Green, RM Illig, KA: Use of Computer Simulation For Determining Endovascular Skill Levels in a Carotid Stenting Model. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2004;40(6):1118-25.
• Illig, KA, Alkon, J, Rhodes, J, Keefer, A, Doyle, A, Serletti, J, Green, RM: Rotational muscle flap closure for acute groin wound infections following vascular surgery. Annals of Vascular Surgery 2004;18(6):661-8.
• Surowiec, SM, Fegley, AJ, Tanski, WJ, Sivamurthy, N, Illig, KA, Lee, DE, Waldman, DL, Green, RM, Davies, MG: Endovascular management of central vein stenosis in the hemodialysis patient: Results of percutaneous therapy. Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 2004;38(4):349-54.
• Keefer, A, Davies, MG, Illig, KA: Can endovascular therapy of infrainguinal disease for claudication be justified? Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy 2004;2(2):229-37.
• Illig, KA, Shortell, CK, Zhang, R, Sternbach, Y, Rhodes, JM, Davies, MG, Ouriel, K, Tanski, W, Johansson, M, Green, RM: Carotid endarterectomy then and now. Surgery 2003;134(4):705-11.
• Shortell, CK, Johansson, M, Green, RM, Illig, KA: Optimal operative strategies in repair of juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms. Annals of Vascular Surgery 2003;17:60-5.
• Illig, KA, Rhodes, JM, Sternbach, Y, Green, RM: Financial impact of endoscopic vein harvest for infrainguinal bypass. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2003;37(2):323-30.
• Illig, KA, Zhang, R, Tanski, W, Benesch, C, Sternbach, Y, Green, RM: Is the rationale for carotid angioplasty and stenting in patients excluded from NASCET/ACAS or eligible for ARCHeR justified? Journal of Vascular Surgery 2003;37(3):575-81.
• Illig, KA: Distal bypass when vein is not available. New Developments in Vascular Diseases 2003;4(1):18-22.
• Illig, KA, Orloff, M, Lyden, SP, Green, RM: Transposed saphenous vein arteriovenous fistula revisited: new technology for an old idea. Cardiovascular Surgery 2002; 10(3):212-5.
• Almog, DM, Horev, T, Illig, KA, Green, RM, Carter, LC: Correlating carotid artery stenosis detected by panoramic radiography with clinically relevant carotid artery stenosis determined by duplex ultrasound. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 2002;94:768-73.
• Illig, KA, Sternbach, Y, Zhang, R, Burchfiel, J, Shortell, CK, Rhodes, JM, Davies, MG, Lyden, SP, Green, RM: EEG and neurologic changes during awake carotid endarterectomy. Annals of Vascular Surgery 2002;16(1):6-11.
• Illig, KA, Williams, JP, Lyden, SP, Hernady, E, Soni, A, Davies, MG, Schell, M, Okunieff, P, Rubin, P, Green, RM: External beam irradiation for inhibition of intimal hyperplasia following prosthetic bypass: preliminary results. Annals of Vascular Surgery 2001;15(5):533-8.
• Illig, KA, Moran, S, Serletti, J, Ouriel, K, Orlando, G, Smith, A, Shortell, CK, Green, RM: Combined free tissue transfer and infrainguinal bypass: an alternative to major amputation in selected patients. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2001;33(1):17-23.
• Illig, KA, Rhodes, JM, Sternbach, Y, Shortell, CK, Davies, MG, Green, RM: Reduction in wound morbidity rates following endoscopic saphenous vein harvest. Annals of Vascular Surgery 2001;15(1):104-9.
• Illig, KA, Eagleton, M, Kaufman, D, Lyden, SP, Shortell, CK, Waldman, D, Green, RM: Alcohol withdrawal after open aortic surgery. Annals of Vascular Surgery 2001;15(3):332-7.
• Illig, KA, Green, RM: Diagnosis and management of the difficult abdominal aortic aneurysm: juxtaranal aneurysms, inflammatory aneurysms, and horseshoe kidney. Seminars in Vascular Surgery 2001;312-7.
• Illig, KA, Eagleton, M, Ouriel, K, Riggs, P, DeWeese, JA, Green, RM: Ruptured popliteal aneurysm. Journal of Vascular Surgery 1998;27:783-7.
• Illig, KA, Burchfiel, JL, Ouriel, K, Shortell, CK, DeWeese, JA, Green, RM: Value of the preoperative EEG for Carotid Endarterectomy: Cardiovascular Surgery 1998;6(5):490-5.
• Illig, KA, Ouriel, K, DeWeese, JA, Shortell, CK, Green, RM: A condemnation of subcutaneous fasciotomy. Military Medicine 1998;163(11):794-6.

Contact

Dr. Karl A Illig
University of Rochester Medical Center
Division of Vascular Surgery
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 652
Rochester, NY 14642
Phone: 1-866-HEART-03