Bio
Shipra Arya, MD SM FACS is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine and section chief of vascular surgery at VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. She has a Master?s degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health with focus on research methodology and cardiovascular epidemiology. She completed her General Surgery Residency at Creighton University Medical Center followed by a Vascular Surgery Fellowship at University of Michigan. She recently completed an American Heart Association (AHA) grant on risk prediction of cardiovascular outcomes and limb loss in Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) patients. She is currently funded by the NIH/NIA GEMSSTAR grant studying the impact of frailty on quality of surgical care in PAD and aortic aneurysm patients. The accumulated evidence from her research all points to the fact that frailty is a versatile tool that can be utilized to guide surgical decision making, inform patient consent and design quality improvement initiatives at the patient and hospital level. The field of frailty research in surgical population is still relatively nascent and her current work focuses on streamlining frailty evaluation, and implementation of patient and system level interventions to improve surgical outcomes and enhance patient centered care.
Clinical Focus
- Vascular Surgery
- Peripheral Arterial Disease
- Aortic Aneurysms
- Carotid artery disease
Administrative Appointments
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Section Chief- Vascular Surgery, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System (2018 - Present)
Professional Education
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Board Certification: American Board of Surgery, Vascular Surgery (2014)
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Fellowship: University of Michigan GME Training Verifications (2013) MI
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Board Certification: American Board of Surgery, General Surgery (2012)
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Residency: Creighton University General Surgery Residency (2011) NE
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Medical Education: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (2005) India