JensEldrup-JorgensenMD

Summary

• Medical Director for the Society for Vascular Surgery Patient Safety Organization, a vascular surgeon at the Maine Medical Center, and Professor of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Jorgensen is a vascular surgeon who has been in practice for over 25 years at Maine Medical Center (MMC) in Portland, Maine. During that time, he has served as Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery, Director, Vascular Center at MMC, Medical Director of the Vascular Laboratory, and led a 12 person multi-specialty surgical practice. He rose to the rank of Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine and served as President of the New England Society of Vascular Surgery. He has performed over 5000 major vascular operations. He has written >100 scholarly articles published in peer reviewed journals. He is a frequent invited speaker and has been visiting professor at multiple prestigious academic medical centers. He has received multiple academic and teaching awards. He has recently been awarded the Society for Vascular Surgery Presidential Citation and the Szilagyi Medal. A lectureship on quality at MMC was named in his recognition. Over the past few years, his academic interest has focused on outcomes analysis, risk stratification and quality improvement. He is Medical Director of the Society for Vascular Surgery Patient Safety Organization. Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI). The VQI is a registry based quality improvement effort with over 6000 participating providers (surgeons, radiologists, and cardiologists) from over 900 centers with over one million patients in the registry. The VQI registry has served as a resource for multiple patient care and quality improvement initiatives, as well as efforts to reduce resource utilization. Data from the VQI registry has been the source of over 700 academic presentations and publications.