Visiting Professors
Caitlin W. Hicks MD, MS
Vice Chair of Research
Associate Fellowship Program Director
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Caitlin W. Hicks MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Hicks is the Associate Fellowship Director for the Johns Hopkins Vascular Surgery Fellowship and the Director of Research for the Johns Hopkins Diabetic Foot and Wound Clinic. She is also the Director of the Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery Center for Outcomes Research. Her clinical practice focuses on carotid disease, open and endovascular aortic surgery, and complex limb salvage. Her research interests the epidemiology of lower extremity disease and value-based care in vascular surgery. The overarching goal of her work is to better define patients who will benefit from vascular interventions, and to optimize patient care and improve overall patient outcomes. Dr. Hicks has a K23 research award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study lower extremity disease in adults with diabetes. She was also recently awarded an R03 award from NIDDK, and currently has career development grants from the American College of Surgery and the Society for Vascular Surgery. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Vascular Surgery, an Editor of Surgery and Annals of Vascular Surgery, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Vascular Surgery and Annals of Surgery. She has published more than 250 peer-reviewed publications to date.
Niten Singh, MD
Director of Limb Preservation Service
Professor of Surgery
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Dr. Niten Singh is a board-certified vascular surgeon. His clinical interests include lower extremity interventions, aortic aneurysms, vascular trauma and popliteal entrapment syndrome.
Dr. Singh earned his medical degree at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, and completed a surgical residency at Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI. He then completed a vascular surgery fellowship at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, affiliated with Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
In 2013, Dr. Singh joined the faculty at University of Washington. Previously, Dr. Singh served 16 years in the United States Army, most recently as Chief of Endovascular Surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA. He served two combat tours in Iraq and garnered military honors including the Bronze Star Medal. He has extensive experience with vascular trauma and complex lower extremity arterial disease.
Dr. Singh’s research interests include interventions for lower extremity arterial disease, aortic aneurysms, vascular trauma, and vascular education. He has been an invited speaker at many national and international meetings on these topics. He has participated in numerous clinical trials and has authored more than 100 publications, as well as more than 30 book chapters.
Dr. Singh is a distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is the founder and Program Chair of the Pacific Northwest Endovascular Conference (PNEC) and a past president of the Pacific Northwest Vascular Society. He is also a board member of Vascular InterVentional Advances (VIVA). In addition, he is a distinguished reviewer of the Journal of Vascular Surgery and serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Vascular Surgery.
David H. Stone, MD
Professor of Surgery
Program Director, Vascular Surgery
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH 03756
David Stone, MD is currently the Program Director for the integrated vascular surgery residency and fellowship programs at Dartmouth. He is also currently the Section Chief of Vascular Surgery at the White River Junction VA Medical Center. Dr. Stone joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 2007 and is currently Professor of Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine.
Dr. Stone grew up in Great Neck, NY and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1993. He also attended St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University where he studied literature. After college, he received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. He did his General Surgery training at NYU/Bellevue Medical Center and did an additional two years of training as a Harvard Longwood research fellow in Vascular Surgery. He then completed his clinical fellowship in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, finishing in 2006.
Professionally, Dr. Stone is interested in both open and endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms, carotid occlusive disease and lower extremity peripheral arterial disease. He is a busy health services researcher focused on outcome disparities. He has been a PI and participant in several clinical trials, published numerous articles and book chapters, and currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Vascular Surgery. He actively teaches fellows, residents, and medical students at Dartmouth.