Pasadena, Texas
Dr. Illig attended Harvard University and Cornell Medical College, and completed his surgical residency and vascular fellowship at the University of Rochester. He served as Program Director and Division Chief there until 2011, followed by seven years as Director of the Division of Vascular Surgery and Associate Chair for Faculty Development and Mentoring at the University of South Florida. Because of his increasing clinical and academic focus on dialysis access, he relocated to the Dialysis Access Institute in Orangeburg, SC in 2018. As of March 2021, he relocated to FLOW Vascular Institute in Houston, an exclusive dialysis access practice, where he serves as Director of Research and Education.
Dr. Illig’s clinical practice is now exclusively devoted to arteriovenous access and venous thoracic outlet syndrome in dialysis patients. He has published over 125 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 45 chapters, multiple invited reviews and commentaries, and three books, including two editions of the definitive multi-author textbook on thoracic outlet syndrome. He’s one of the developers of the concept that the venous thoracic outlet plays a role in many patients with AV access dysfunction, and has surgically treated over 100 people with this condition. He’s an Academic Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery, a member of the American Surgical Association, and served on the Vascular Surgery Board of the ABS. In Houston he is working to establish postgraduate training programs in hemodialysis access, and is the lead editor on what will be the first major multi-author text on all phases of dialysis access.
Thoracic Outlet Compressive Syndromes: Current Scope of the Problem
Thursday, June 20, 2024
7:00 AM – 7:08 AM CT
Training Concepts for HD Access Surgery
Thursday, June 20, 2024
2:42 PM – 2:52 PM CT