France

Fabien Lareyre is Consultant and Head of the Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the hospital of Antibes, south of France.

His research focuses on the applications of Artificial intelligence in Vascular Surgery and his pioneering works in the field were rewarded by an Academic Award of the French National Academy of Medicine and by a Prize of Excellence from Université Côte d’Azur (France).

He is fellow of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) and he is the French representative of VASCUNET, and Committee member of the European Research Hub.

Member of the French and European Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, he presented at national and international conferences and achieved more than 150 publications accepted in scientific and clinical peer review journals. He is Associate Editor of the EJVES VF and board member of the EJVES, Seminars in Vascular Surgery and the Journal of Endovascular Therapy.

Dr Lobato has been a Vascular and endovascular Surgery Consultant in Hospital Universitario de Cruces (Bilbao-Spain) since 2010. Her Department is considered a first line Unit in the Endovascular management of CLTI (particularly in the BTK-BTA segments). She developed her Vascular Fellowship Programme in Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre (Madrid) and thereafter completed her training with short stages in Hospital du Nord St Etienne (France), Universitäs Spital Zurich. (Switzerland), St Franziskus Hospital Münster (Germany). For the last ten years her activity has been mainly focused on the endovascular treatment of the lower limb, routinely performing complex CTO revascularizations, including any sort of bidirectional access, transcollateral approaches, plantar loop or venous arterialization. She is also a reviewer of the Critical Limb ischaemia Journal, Journal of Endovascular Therapy and Annals of Vascular Surgery since 2024. Her Unit has presented multiple communications in well recognized international symposiums and has published many papers in first line journals of her speciality.