Dr. Cronenwett is Active Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He was Chair of the Section of Vascular Surgery at DHMC from 1984-2007. He received his B.S degree from the University of Michigan, his M.D. from Stanford University, did general surgery residency at the University of Michigan and vascular fellowship at the University of Tennessee. He is Past-President of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery, and the Society for Vascular Surgery. He is Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Vascular Surgery and Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery Textbook, 7th and 8th Edition and current editor of Vascular Decision Making. From 2002-2014, he served as Medical Director of the Vascular Study Group of New England, a regional cooperative quality improvement group. From 2011 to 2016, he was Medical Director of the Society for Vascular Surgery Patient Safety Organization, a consortium of >900 hospitals organized into 18 regional quality improvement groups that share clinical data to improve vascular healthcare. In 2017, Dr, Cronenwett took on the role of Chief Medical Officer for Fivos, which provides informatics support to registries and physicians. Dr. Cronenwett has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters, and delivered more than 400 scientific presentations. In 2016 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Vascular Surgery and in 2021 the Lifetime Achievement Award in Education from the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery.
SS05 - Optimizing Hospital Billing by Using Data from the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI)
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
10:00 AM – 10:11 AM CT