Vascular Surgery Service Team
The leader of the Vascular team is a consultant (specialist) vascular surgeon. When you are referred to a clinic, or admitted to hospital you will be assigned to one specific consultant (Mr Caldwell, Mr Tchijov, Mr Mahadevan, or Mr Harris). However, consultants often work in teams of two or three, and to some extent your care may be shared between these consultants.
Other medical members of the vascular team include the registrar(s). These are fully qualified doctors who are now training to become specialists. The house surgeons are doctors who have usually qualified more recently, in the last 1-2 years.
Other members of the team include:
Interventional Radiologists - (Dr Hawkins, Dr Weeks, Dr Barnard, Dr O'Donoghue, Dr Cookson), who perform or oversee all radiological procedures such as arteriograms, angioplasty, CT and MRI scans.
Vascular Sonographers - Anita Humphries, Carol Duncan and Janet Franks perform vascular ultrasound scanning and are based at the vascular lab in Module 9 at Manukau SuperClinic (MSC). Some vascular imaging is also provided on the Middlemore site by the general radiology department.
Vascular Nurse Specialist – Kate Henderson
If you are a patient with the Vascular team, you may be seen by a Vascular Nurse Specialist who undertakes case management of all vascular patients and has responsibility for ongoing education of nursing staff and patients. The Vascular Nurse Specialist operates a nurse-run clinic seeing follow-up vascular patients and assessing vascular disease states.
Locations of Vascular Surgery Services for patients
Vascular Ward 9 is located on Level 4 of the Scott Building at Middlemore Hospital. If Ward 9 is full, you may be placed into Ward 8 (also located in the Scott Building) or Ward 34N or 34E (located in the Edmund Hillary Building). Click here to view a wayfinding map of Middlemore Hospital.
Vascular Outpatient Clinic is primarily located in Module 9 at Manukau SuperClinic.
Pre-Admit Clinic is located in Module 8 at Manukau SuperClinic.
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