The Magazine of the American Podiatric Medical Association l Volume 30 Number 9 l OCTOBER 2009

The Team
Approach
for Limb
Salvage
APMA, SVS Alliance

DPMs, Vascular Surgeons

Together at California Center

Hands Across the Border:

APMA Meets in Toronto
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 “No Doctor Is an Island”

APMA and Vascular

Surgeons Form Alliance
t was a summit meeting between two
health-care professions with much in common.
On August 21, 2009, the leadership of the Society for Vascular Surgery
(SVS) met in Bethesda, MD, with the leadership of the American Podiatric
Medical Association to enthusiastically hammer out details of a strategic
collaboration between the two organizations, a collaboration that will encourage
a team approach for doctors in the treatment of patients with critical limb
ischemia, especially in the diabetic population, in order to reduce complications,
speed healing, and lower amputation rates.
A joint statement, drafted at an earlier meeting in Tucson, AZ, last February
has now been approved by the APMA and SVS boards and the organizations have
moved quickly to establish a dialogue between their highest leaders.
The approved agreement reads as follows:
“The specialties of podiatry and vascular surgery have a common interest in caring
for patients with diabetes. The American Podiatric Medical Association and the
Society for Vascular Surgery plan to collaborate on several activities to reduce
amputations through raising awareness and improving care of people with diabetic
foot problems. Areas of common interest and potential collaboration include (a)
professional education, such as special journal supplements and joint symposia; (b)
public education; (c) health policy and advocacy; (d) research; and (e) best practice
initiatives, through practice guidelines and interdisciplinary centers.” continued on page 14

By DAVID ZYCH

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SVS AND APMA Alliance
continued from page 13
At the Bethesda meeting, these areas of common interest were
explored and specific plans were discussed.
SVS was represented by President Anton Sidawy, MD, MPH,
professor of surgery at both Georgetown and George Washington
Schools of Medicine in Washington, DC, and director of the vascu-
lar surgery residency program at Georgetown University and Wash-
ington Hospital Center; President-Elect Robert Zwolak, MD, PhD,
professor of surgery at Dartmouth Medical School; Vice President
Richard Cambria, MD, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical
School and chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at Massachu-
setts General Hospital; and Executive Director Rebecca Maron,
CAE. APMA was represented by President Ronald Jensen, DPM;
President-Elect Kathleen Stone, DPM; Treasurer Joseph Caporusso,
DPM; and Executive Director and CEO Glenn B. Gastwirth, DPM.
“This meeting was arranged as a first step to implement the
agreement approved by the respective Boards of SVS and APMA,”
said Dr. Gastwirth. “We are identifying clinical issues and questions
important to both our memberships and working together to find
solutions that will benefit our patients.” The agreement, according
to Dr. Jensen, was vital because it gave “direction to both organiza-
tions” on current and future goals.
Patient care was the underlying theme of the meeting in
Bethesda, and both groups felt that the alliance was a natural evo-
lution in the care of patients with diabetes.
“Our relationship with podiatric medicine is vital for patient
care,” said SVS President Anton Sidawy, who is also editor of the
Journal of Vascular Surgery. Dr. Sidawy noted that the coopera-
tion between SVS and APMA is essential and ongoing. “This
agreement is a formal way to codify the important relationship
between vascular surgeons and podiatric medicine that exists,
and I am very excited about moving forward with our plans.”
The value of this alliance was summed up earlier by David
Armstrong, DPM, PhD, when he called the collaboration between
podiatric medicine and vascular surgery as “toe and flow.” Dr.
Armstrong, along with Joseph Mills, MD, a noted vascular sur-
geon and co-director with Dr. Armstrong at the Southern Arizona
Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), hosted the earlier February meet-
ing between APMA and SVS leaders, a precursor to this second
meeting at APMA headquarters. “Toe and flow” characterized the
team approach in treating patients with diabetic complications.
In this equation, the “toe” is the podiatrist, and the “flow” is
the vascular surgeon. Dr. Stone said that this characterization
speaks to what DPMs do every day with patients with diabetes
and peripheral vascular disease. “When we’ve performed Doppler
studies and diagnosed that the patient is in trouble, what is our
next step? It’s the vascular surgeon, and being part of this team is
a way to further our goals outlined in Vision 2015.”
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The alliance had its genesis at SALSA, where Drs. Armstrong
and Mills were increasingly enthused about the success of their
work through the team approach in limb salvage and diabetes
care. “Joe (Dr. Mills) is a leader in SVS and he called many of his
colleagues, telling them how successful SALSA has become,” said
Dr. Armstrong. “I was doing the same, talking to Dr. Gastwirth
and then-President Dr. Ross Taubman about bringing podiatry
and vascular surgery together.”
Neither Dr. Armstrong nor Dr. Mills realized at first how sig-
nificant the SALSA experiment would be and how “phenomenal”
the pairing of DPMs and vascular surgeons could be. “That was
really the genesis of toe and flow,” said Dr. Armstrong. “When
you put things together to an irreducible minimum, you have
someone taking care of the foot and someone taking care of the
flow into the foot. It was that simple.”
Dr. Mills called diabetic foot treatment a microcosm of
American’s health-care system: “The only way to do better with
problems like diabetic foot care is to work as a team,” he said.
“We’ve been doing this here for a year; it’s been tried before and
worked to a variable extent. To me, it’s the wave of the future. If
you can get the right people working together in a seamless envi-
ronment to take care of the patient, the patient will get better
because there is less fragmented care. And I think we can actually
show it’s cheaper.”
Dr. Armstrong called that statement the “secret sauce in SAL-
SA,” adding that this collaboration is, if not a match made in
heaven, at least a match made in the clinic: “When we brought
our colleagues from SVS and APMA together last February, I
think we all had a realization of what a fortuitous and historic
kind of meeting it was.”
Previous page: SVS and APMA meet at APMA headquarters in Bethesda, MD.
Below: Left to right—Glenn B. Gastwirth, DPM, executive director and CEO, APMA;
Robert Zwolak, MD, president-elect, SVS; Joseph M. Caporusso, DPM, treasurer,
APMA; Ronald D. Jensen, DPM, president, APMA; Anton Sidawy, MD, president,
SVS; Kathleen M. Stone, DPM, president-elect, APMA; Rebecca Maron, CAE, executive
director, SVS. (Not shown: Richard Cambria, MD, vice president, SVS.)
Dr. Taubman said that initial meeting was exploratory, in order
to gauge the interest between SVS and APMA on common areas of
concern. “The synergy, however, was immediately palpable as the
two organizations realized their complementary roles in treating
patients that have wounds and vascular disease. It is incredibly ex-
citing to see such positive results in such a short period of time.”
“What we are seeing now makes it even more significant than
what it was in February,” said Dr. Armstrong. “We see this SVS-
APMA collaboration blossoming into something really special.”
Things surely began to blossom at the Bethesda meeting in
August. Among the collaborative projects agreed upon was ap-
pointing a group representing both organizations to write a posi-
tion statement on the multidisciplinary approach to the care of
the diabetic foot. “It’s a statement that will be sent out to the
world,” said Dr. Sidawy, adding that such a statement “will have
legs” as it reaches to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Ser-
vices and other health organizations. “It’s a statement that will
underscore what is right and best for the patient,” said Dr. Gast-
wirth, adding that it will be clinically oriented and scholarly.
Both groups also agreed to produce a supplement on the care
of the diabetic foot that will be jointly published in the Journal of
Vascular Surgery (JVS), edited by Dr. Sidawy, and the Journal of
the American Podiatric Medical Association (JAPMA), edited by
Warren Joseph, DPM. Current plans call for the SVS to publish
the articles in its July issue, with JAPMA publishing them in the
combined July-August issue. The top-quality scientific articles
will raise the bar for patient care in this area and promote the
podiatric-vascular surgeon team approach.
The SVS-APMA alliance will also establish joint postgraduate
courses to be held at the annual scientific meetings of both orga-
nizations, particularly in the areas of diabetes and wound care.
This prospect would be meaningful for both DPMs and vascular
surgeons, and under consideration are plans for SVS coming to
APMA’s Annual Scientific Meeting, and vice versa.
Richard P. Cambria, MD, vice president of SVS, with APMA President-Elect Kathleen
M. Stone, DPM.
SVS AND APMA Alliance
Cooperation in the area of practice models brought much
discussion, with the bottom line being that DPMs and vascular
surgeons who work together are critical for wound care. Dr.
Zwolak said the groups should spearhead a template so that peo-
ple can see the benefits of the two groups working together. “The
team approach to treat the diabetic patient is exactly what we can
do,” said Dr. Sidawy. “It is a major initiative to come out of this
meeting. When there is no podiatric physician available to our
patient, there is a giant hole in his or her care.”
APMA Treasurer Joseph Caporusso is also vice chair of the Pe-
ripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Coalition, a group of approximately
50 different organizations that represent the gamut of health-care
personnel working toward education in this area, including SVS.
“We want and need relationships with all the medical specialties that
can help deal with our patients,” he said. “The more we work as a
team, the more it helps our patients.” Dr. Stone strongly agreed,
adding that “If we don’t start reaching out to other groups we will
not reach our goal set by Vision 2015.”
Dr. Armstrong said that there is a strong similarity here with
cancer care. “The epidemiology is similar,” he said. “When some-
one has a limb amputated, his or her five-year survival rate is
similar to patients with some cancers. But we don’t think about it
that way; we don’t organize our care that way. If you have cancer,
you can be damn sure that you’re not going to go to your general
practitioner for treatment. You are going to go to a cancer center.
The key here is that we have to organize toe and flow centers to
provide the same level of concentrated care.”
Dr. Mills adds: “Before we had Dr. Armstrong and his people
here, we would take care of the patients’ wounds, get them to
where they were stable, and then at some point they would have
to be referred for off-loading or further care. Now, from the mo-
ment patients are in the hospital, they are taken care of by Da-
vid’s group, working to get the foot totally healed and keeping it
from breaking down again.”
Another benefit of the collaboration is an understanding that
each organization will be available to support and advocate for
efforts in areas of common interest. In this area, both groups
hope to work on appropriate reimbursement rates for ankle bra-
chial indices, as well as supporting APMA’s efforts in its Title XIX
initiative with Congress.
Dr. Caporusso calls the agreement a feather in APMA’s cap:
“With the increase in our knowledge and education we are able
to do things to save limbs. We work hand in hand with specialists
who see every day what podiatrists do across the country. I’m
looking to establish relationships in my area of McAllen, TX, so
that podiatrists will have access to SVS physicians.”
SVS and APMA Alliance continued on page 20
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 Podiatrists,
Vascular Surgeons
Team in California Dr. Andros’ specialty is revascularization of diabetic limbs and he co-directs the

W
hen it comes to amputation prevention
in patients with diabetes, there’s no bet-
ter partnership than that of podiatric
physicians and vascular surgeons.
The Amputation Prevention Center at Valley Presbyterian Hospital (VPH) in Los
Angeles is slated to open its doors on December 1, making it the third limb-salvage
center in the United States in which DPMs and vascular surgeons work on the
same team under the same roof. Lee C. Rogers, DPM, director of the Amputation
Prevention Center at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, IA, and Nicholas
J. Bevilacqua, DPM, attending surgeon at Broadlawns, will serve as the associate
medical directors, with vascular surgeon and proponent of podiatry George
Andros, MD, as medical director.
Diabetic Foot Global Conference, or “DFCon,” with David G. Armstrong, DPM,
PhD, of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA).
“You have to focus on the future,” Dr. Andros said, “because that’s where you’re
going to live. And the future is this: Diabetic foot care needs to be specialized care
provided by a team of podiatrists and vascular surgeons, because there’s no other
model that has worked.”
The center will span an entire 4,000-square foot floor. It’s unique round design
will include a large nurse’s station in the center, surrounded by 24 rooms, which
will allow staff to efficiently keep track of patients.
“Another thing we’re talking about is not having a waiting room,” Dr. Rogers
said. “There will be a receptionist as people come in. I got this idea after my wife
had our baby, and I saw how labor and delivery works. You have one room and
you stay in that room the whole time. The patients won’t have to move around at
all. People with diabetes have limited mobility as it is.” continued on page 18

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surgery and podiatry, there will be a reduction in amputation.” Diabetes Association (ADA) for the next two years, which also is
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Benefits to APMA
as community health providers, something like registry of toe
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April
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alliance by bringing like-minded physicians together. The ben-
Patient care comes first, but the SVS-APMA alliance has efits are untold.”
positive benefits for both groups, including, for example, dispel- He is clearly energized by the work being done in Tucson,
ling the atavistic ideas that vascular surgeons just treat varicose adding, with a smile, that “our SALSA bowl runneth over.”
veins or that podiatrists are concerned only about toenails.
Dr. Armstrong calls the SVS-APMA alliance a major event
“The average person doesn’t know the training that’s involved to
become a podiatrist or a vascular surgeon. Podiatric training is
for APMA: “Members like to ask, ‘What has APMA done for NatioNal
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rigorous,” said Dr. Mills. “Vascular surgical training is unbeliev- he or she isn’t on a certain plan. This alliance, however, I pre-
ably rigorous to get to where one can do complex open proce- dict will be one of the most significant initiatives that the
dures. It helps both of our fields by letting people know what APMA has ever launched. I really mean it. As I look to the

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the depth of each specialty is. It’s great we can help each other future of our profession, I see it not as one in isolation, just as
and it’s great for our patients.” our country didn’t have a future in isolation after the Hawley-
Dr. Armstrong calls the benefits to APMA “enormous,” Smoot Tariff era. Inclusion is the way forward for us. It’s po-
adding that “it brings podiatry to the rest of medicine. We are diatry’s version of internationalism and it’s the way to contin-
in the hospital every day because of complications due to diabe- ued progress.” n THE
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and ankle practice in Southern California with seven starting August, 2010 and extending until July, 2011.
foot and ankle surgeons servicing eight offices across Three-year surgical training is preferred but two-year
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the greater Los Angeles area. With over 45,000 patient surgical training will also be considered. The goal of the
visits per year and premier surgical facilities, University fellowship is to improve and expand the training that was
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with UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Group. demands of running a practice with all aspects of billing, Accreditation
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Temple School
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School Medicine
of Podiatric Medicine
From conservative care, orthotic and brace management patient education, physician relations and office administra- This This
activity has been planned and implemented
activity has been planned and implemented
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to complicated revision surgery and ankle replacement, tion considered. The fellow is responsible for assistance in in accordance with with
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and surgical facilities all run by our institute. academic papers for publication prior to the end of their accredited by the
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fellowship. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent
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