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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is iHeartRadio's Maryland Business Spotlight. Each week we hear
from one local business owner letting us know where they
are in their business journey and how they got there.
I'm here today with doctor Andre Buchian's managing partner of
Vascular Surgery Associates LLC. Doctor, thank you for being here.
Tell us about Vascular Surgery Associates.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Sure sure so. VASCAR Surgery Associates is a group of
VASCAR surgeons. There's ten of us and we've been around
since the mid nineteen eighties, starting off with two surgeons
and growing to ten. Basically, we provide vascular care for
(00:40):
vascular disease to folks all around the Baltimore area and
we do that in our offices, in the outpatient setting
and in the hospitals around here.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So how many locations do you guys have?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So we have thirteen offices in various in the multiple
counties throughout. We have two outpatient surgery centers, and then
we cover approximately seven hospitals for their vat and we're
in most of those hospitals where the primary vascular surgery
practice at that hospital.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Uh huh. And for just for the layman people come
to you for what serious condition.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So vascular disease kind of spans a whole host of things,
and some are serious and some are not so serious,
but kind of typical things we're referred or patients are
referred to us for can be in regards to arterial issues.
So the arteries in your body are the pipes that
(01:45):
hump blood away from the heart and to the organs
and your limbs. So if someone has kind of poor
flow to the blood vessels in their leg and they
have difficulty walking, or they may have wounds, we can help.
We can help fix that. Some people have blockages in
their blood vessels that go to their brain and they
can they may present with a stroke or a transi
(02:09):
into schemek attack, which is stroke symptoms.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And that needs to be fixed.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There are blood vessels we call the veins which carry
the blood back to the heart, and they have a
whole host of other issues. They can develop blood clots,
so people can have DVTs or pulmonary embolists where clots
go to the long We can we take those clots out.
We manage the medicines to help keep the clots from developing.
People can have even things like Verica's veins or spider veins.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Though a lot of people don't like the way they look,
they can often cause symptoms where their legs get heavy
and achy by the end of the day, you know,
they feel like they've been standing for hundreds of hours
when they just only worked one day.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And so we can treat those things.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So we are referred to refer a whole host of
problems because the vascular system is throughout the body, so
we'll see we'll see it head to toe.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, exactly. And what do you think is the best
medical advancement specifically for vascular surgery for your type of field?
What has been the best advancement over the past let's
say ten years.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So ten years really ultrasound and X ray be honest,
those two imaging modalities. So a lot of vascular surgery
is basically it's like plumbing. You want to get blood
to go from point A to point B somehow, And traditionally,
when I was training way back in the past, we
(03:36):
would have to basically cut the leg open or cut
the body open and figure.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Out what the problem was.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Sure, imaging has allowed us to see the blood vessels,
whether it's with X ray or with ultrasound. That allows
us to go inside the blood vessel with little catheters
and fix the problem with a little puncture. So, for instance,
I can treat let's say bad verica's vein problem. We
used to treat in the hospital. You'd have to stay
(04:02):
a couple of days in the hospital. Now I can
treat in my office. You walk in, you walk out,
and you're back to your normal activities that day.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
If you have.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Bad disease in your in your neck and yet a stroke,
we can make a small, tiny little incision, go up
and fix it with a stent or whatnot. The nice
thing about vascular surgery for us, though, is if those modalities,
if doing it that way doesn't work, we still have
the option of fixing it the surgical ways, So we
can we provide kind of the broad spectrum of what
(04:31):
the pros and cons are for each of these things.
And we're not just kind of like a a one
one tool show.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Right you come see us, Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the
span of patients do you get all ages or is
it mostly older patients?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So again that's basically on the type of disease. So
if you're talking about diseases of the artery. That's more
commonly older folks, some people that have of wisdom, I
guess you'd call it. And because a lot of those
disease processes take time. On the other hand, the youngest
patient I treated as sixteen years old, and they had
(05:09):
an issue with the way their blood vessels developed and
they were having trouble getting blood flow to their leg
because of a congenital anomaly. And I had to fix
the blood vessel in that scenario. So we do see
a range of patients. And and you know, if you
come to our waiting room sometimes it's you'll see, you know,
a teenager with a.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Hundred year old whitning room.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And right, no one's no one's immune to the problems
with the vascular system.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Absolutely. And and you said Vascular Surgery Associates started in
the eighties. Have you been with that company for that long?
What did you get your start?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Tell me, you know, I joined in two thousand and eight, Okay,
so it was.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Already well on its way when I when I was
able to join, And it's been a it's been a
wonderful experience. I joined directly out of fellowship and this
is I've been here ever since.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So I've not. I've not wanted to leave.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, it's going good there. So I mean, are you
from Maryland or did you move here for this opportunity?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah? I moved here for the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm originally from Boston, Okay, and so I you know,
when I was finishing training, my family and I were
trying to decide where to where to kind of relocate.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
We wanted to stay on the East Coast.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But when I when I met the group and I
met the other surgeons and the and the and the
kind of the vision of where this was going, I
was like, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So we moved.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
We moved to the area with really no other connection
except for this.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, that's great. So what do you think is the
best thing about Vascular Surgery Associates as far as setting
it aside from other companies that do what you do.
What would you say is the most positive thing you
could say about where you work?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, what we try to what we try to accomplish
is provide patients with access and information, and you know,
we want patients to understand what's going on with them.
We want them to understand that we're we're here kind
of taking their the journey with them as they try
to figure out the disease process.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
And we're not just here to to say you need
this done and then see you later.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
We we every patient that we see ends up seeing
us for a for a long period of time, and
we we we kind of feel like we're like a snowball,
like we just keep We'll just add more patients to
our list because VASCAR disease doesn't doesn't just end with
a particular treatment. There's going to be some follow up.
There's going to be things that may happen down the road.
So I feel like we do we offer kind of
(07:39):
comprehensive long long term care as well, and we're there
for the long run. We're not just there to do
something in and hand you off to someone else. We
we care about the patient and honestly, with the information,
we want to make sure that they the decisions that
are made, the things that are done are within what
patients want to do.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Everyone needs something done and they we could maybe do something,
but if that's not.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
In what their overall goals.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Or expectations are, then we won't do it and we'll
figure something else out. So I think it's it's important
to know that we want to more partner with patients
and we're not there to just tell them what we
think and that's it and that's the end of the road.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We want to kind of know what they need and
work with.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Them, so almost building a relationship with them along this
along with getting them healthy.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Absolutely, and it is about that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's like it's it's you know, people, and that's really
the biggest thing that I enjoy.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The most thing I enjoy about my job is really
the relationships.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I would build with the patients and the people and
seeing them get better or you know, guiding them. And
most of my office physics, we talk about other things
going on as opposed to just vascular business, right, which
is nice, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So so looking ahead to vascular surgery associates, where do
you see the future? Do you guys have goals outside
of getting new patients and helping them.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So I think we're we yeah, we are trying to well,
we always we're always trying to kind of.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Grow in a in a intelligent way.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We go places where the access may not be as
plentiful as it may be in some of the areas
we're in. So we're trying to expand we're trying to
offer all the cutting edge technology we go to, we
go to meetings, we reach out and try to figure
out what the next best thing will be for our patients.
We are we're actually looking into Also, one of my
(09:34):
partners as started to kind of learn about functional medicine
and kind of alternative therapies and how that affects the
vascular system and how that may help our patients rather
than sticking to kind of just you know, well we
need to do X, Y and Z. There may be
alternatives that are out there that not necessarily taught medical school.
(09:56):
So I think that the thing for a VASCAR surgery
is that just keep on our toes and keep trying
trying to move with what patients need and what what
will make sense for them.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So specifically, what where are your locations in Maryland? Are
you in Delaware? Just Maryland?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You have no?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
We do, We do have we do have two locations
in Delaware. So we've we were we had had a
presence up in Cecil County, and Cecil County is like,
you know, a stone's throw from Delaware, and we have
patients coming across the line. So we've kind of pushed
into Delaware and that and so we do have a
provider that's in that area. And then in Maryland, you know,
(10:35):
we we're in Harford County down to Baltimore County, Howard County,
Carroll County, Frederick and uh and Anne Arundel. We're actually
looking potentially to go even further a little bit further.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
South as well.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
We try to make we try we try to position
ourselves so that, like we mentioned, I've had I've had
patients come see me at my in Towson where my
my particular their offices where I see patients you know,
from from Bouie and I've had a few people even
from like northern Virginia come up and wow, you know,
I've had people, We had had people from Delaware come
down before we established time there. So people are just
(11:15):
you know, people just want to be able to get
get in and underget We try to get people in
as soon as we can, and then they just want
an opportunity to kind of understand what's going on with
them and what their options are, and then that's what
we try to just give them.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Well, this has been great, this little introduction. I appreciate it.
I appreciate your time talking about Vascular Surgery Associates. Let
listeners know where we can find out more information about
you guys.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Sure, so we have we certainly have a website. It's
Vascular Surgery Associates dot net. It has all of our locations,
has a profile on all of us. You know, we
have a phone number that we can that you can
use as a four one oh eight seven nine two
zero zero six. And you know, if if you go
on the website, you can see the locations and if
(12:04):
you call the number, they'll connect you with the folks
at that if at a particular location.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That suits you.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And and I always tell people when they meet, when
I meet them anyway, that if you know, if you know,
we we want to know. If if you feel like
you can't you're not getting it, we'll get you in.
Like we want to get people in and get it,
so we'll we'll make it happen.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's a good thing. That's fantastic. Doctor, Thank you so
much for your time. Doctor Andre Buchian's managing partner of
Vascular Surgery Associates LLC. Thank you very much, and I
appreciate your.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Time, my pleasure. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
This has been iHeartRadio's Maryland Business Spotlight
This is iHeartRadio's Maryland Business Spotlight. Each week we hear
from one local business owner letting us know where they
are in their business journey and how they got there.
I'm here today with doctor Andre Buchian's managing partner of
Vascular Surgery Associates LLC. Doctor, thank you for being here.
Tell us about Vascular Surgery Associates.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Sure sure so. VASCAR Surgery Associates is a group of
VASCAR surgeons. There's ten of us and we've been around
since the mid nineteen eighties, starting off with two surgeons
and growing to ten. Basically, we provide vascular care for
(00:40):
vascular disease to folks all around the Baltimore area and
we do that in our offices, in the outpatient setting
and in the hospitals around here.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So how many locations do you guys have?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So we have thirteen offices in various in the multiple
counties throughout. We have two outpatient surgery centers, and then
we cover approximately seven hospitals for their vat and we're
in most of those hospitals where the primary vascular surgery
practice at that hospital.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Uh huh. And for just for the layman people come
to you for what serious condition.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So vascular disease kind of spans a whole host of things,
and some are serious and some are not so serious,
but kind of typical things we're referred or patients are
referred to us for can be in regards to arterial issues.
So the arteries in your body are the pipes that
(01:45):
hump blood away from the heart and to the organs
and your limbs. So if someone has kind of poor
flow to the blood vessels in their leg and they
have difficulty walking, or they may have wounds, we can help.
We can help fix that. Some people have blockages in
their blood vessels that go to their brain and they
can they may present with a stroke or a transi
(02:09):
into schemek attack, which is stroke symptoms.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And that needs to be fixed.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There are blood vessels we call the veins which carry
the blood back to the heart, and they have a
whole host of other issues. They can develop blood clots,
so people can have DVTs or pulmonary embolists where clots
go to the long We can we take those clots out.
We manage the medicines to help keep the clots from developing.
People can have even things like Verica's veins or spider veins.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Though a lot of people don't like the way they look,
they can often cause symptoms where their legs get heavy
and achy by the end of the day, you know,
they feel like they've been standing for hundreds of hours
when they just only worked one day.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And so we can treat those things.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So we are referred to refer a whole host of
problems because the vascular system is throughout the body, so
we'll see we'll see it head to toe.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, exactly. And what do you think is the best
medical advancement specifically for vascular surgery for your type of field?
What has been the best advancement over the past let's
say ten years.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So ten years really ultrasound and X ray be honest,
those two imaging modalities. So a lot of vascular surgery
is basically it's like plumbing. You want to get blood
to go from point A to point B somehow, And traditionally,
when I was training way back in the past, we
(03:36):
would have to basically cut the leg open or cut
the body open and figure.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Out what the problem was.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Sure, imaging has allowed us to see the blood vessels,
whether it's with X ray or with ultrasound. That allows
us to go inside the blood vessel with little catheters
and fix the problem with a little puncture. So, for instance,
I can treat let's say bad verica's vein problem. We
used to treat in the hospital. You'd have to stay
(04:02):
a couple of days in the hospital. Now I can
treat in my office. You walk in, you walk out,
and you're back to your normal activities that day.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
If you have.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Bad disease in your in your neck and yet a stroke,
we can make a small, tiny little incision, go up
and fix it with a stent or whatnot. The nice
thing about vascular surgery for us, though, is if those modalities,
if doing it that way doesn't work, we still have
the option of fixing it the surgical ways, So we
can we provide kind of the broad spectrum of what
(04:31):
the pros and cons are for each of these things.
And we're not just kind of like a a one
one tool show.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Right you come see us, Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the
span of patients do you get all ages or is
it mostly older patients?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So again that's basically on the type of disease. So
if you're talking about diseases of the artery. That's more
commonly older folks, some people that have of wisdom, I
guess you'd call it. And because a lot of those
disease processes take time. On the other hand, the youngest
patient I treated as sixteen years old, and they had
(05:09):
an issue with the way their blood vessels developed and
they were having trouble getting blood flow to their leg
because of a congenital anomaly. And I had to fix
the blood vessel in that scenario. So we do see
a range of patients. And and you know, if you
come to our waiting room sometimes it's you'll see, you know,
a teenager with a.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Hundred year old whitning room.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And right, no one's no one's immune to the problems
with the vascular system.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Absolutely. And and you said Vascular Surgery Associates started in
the eighties. Have you been with that company for that long?
What did you get your start?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Tell me, you know, I joined in two thousand and eight, Okay,
so it was.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Already well on its way when I when I was
able to join, And it's been a it's been a
wonderful experience. I joined directly out of fellowship and this
is I've been here ever since.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So I've not. I've not wanted to leave.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, it's going good there. So I mean, are you
from Maryland or did you move here for this opportunity?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah? I moved here for the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm originally from Boston, Okay, and so I you know,
when I was finishing training, my family and I were
trying to decide where to where to kind of relocate.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
We wanted to stay on the East Coast.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But when I when I met the group and I
met the other surgeons and the and the and the
kind of the vision of where this was going, I
was like, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So we moved.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
We moved to the area with really no other connection
except for this.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, that's great. So what do you think is the
best thing about Vascular Surgery Associates as far as setting
it aside from other companies that do what you do.
What would you say is the most positive thing you
could say about where you work?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, what we try to what we try to accomplish
is provide patients with access and information, and you know,
we want patients to understand what's going on with them.
We want them to understand that we're we're here kind
of taking their the journey with them as they try
to figure out the disease process.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
And we're not just here to to say you need
this done and then see you later.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
We we every patient that we see ends up seeing
us for a for a long period of time, and
we we we kind of feel like we're like a snowball,
like we just keep We'll just add more patients to
our list because VASCAR disease doesn't doesn't just end with
a particular treatment. There's going to be some follow up.
There's going to be things that may happen down the road.
So I feel like we do we offer kind of
(07:39):
comprehensive long long term care as well, and we're there
for the long run. We're not just there to do
something in and hand you off to someone else. We
we care about the patient and honestly, with the information,
we want to make sure that they the decisions that
are made, the things that are done are within what
patients want to do.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Everyone needs something done and they we could maybe do something,
but if that's not.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
In what their overall goals.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Or expectations are, then we won't do it and we'll
figure something else out. So I think it's it's important
to know that we want to more partner with patients
and we're not there to just tell them what we
think and that's it and that's the end of the road.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We want to kind of know what they need and
work with.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Them, so almost building a relationship with them along this
along with getting them healthy.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Absolutely, and it is about that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's like it's it's you know, people, and that's really
the biggest thing that I enjoy.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The most thing I enjoy about my job is really
the relationships.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I would build with the patients and the people and
seeing them get better or you know, guiding them. And
most of my office physics, we talk about other things
going on as opposed to just vascular business, right, which
is nice, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So so looking ahead to vascular surgery associates, where do
you see the future? Do you guys have goals outside
of getting new patients and helping them.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So I think we're we yeah, we are trying to well,
we always we're always trying to kind of.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Grow in a in a intelligent way.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We go places where the access may not be as
plentiful as it may be in some of the areas
we're in. So we're trying to expand we're trying to
offer all the cutting edge technology we go to, we
go to meetings, we reach out and try to figure
out what the next best thing will be for our patients.
We are we're actually looking into Also, one of my
(09:34):
partners as started to kind of learn about functional medicine
and kind of alternative therapies and how that affects the
vascular system and how that may help our patients rather
than sticking to kind of just you know, well we
need to do X, Y and Z. There may be
alternatives that are out there that not necessarily taught medical school.
(09:56):
So I think that the thing for a VASCAR surgery
is that just keep on our toes and keep trying
trying to move with what patients need and what what
will make sense for them.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So specifically, what where are your locations in Maryland? Are
you in Delaware? Just Maryland?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You have no?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
We do, We do have we do have two locations
in Delaware. So we've we were we had had a
presence up in Cecil County, and Cecil County is like,
you know, a stone's throw from Delaware, and we have
patients coming across the line. So we've kind of pushed
into Delaware and that and so we do have a
provider that's in that area. And then in Maryland, you know,
(10:35):
we we're in Harford County down to Baltimore County, Howard County,
Carroll County, Frederick and uh and Anne Arundel. We're actually
looking potentially to go even further a little bit further.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
South as well.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
We try to make we try we try to position
ourselves so that, like we mentioned, I've had I've had
patients come see me at my in Towson where my
my particular their offices where I see patients you know,
from from Bouie and I've had a few people even
from like northern Virginia come up and wow, you know,
I've had people, We had had people from Delaware come
down before we established time there. So people are just
(11:15):
you know, people just want to be able to get
get in and underget We try to get people in
as soon as we can, and then they just want
an opportunity to kind of understand what's going on with
them and what their options are, and then that's what
we try to just give them.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Well, this has been great, this little introduction. I appreciate it.
I appreciate your time talking about Vascular Surgery Associates. Let
listeners know where we can find out more information about
you guys.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Sure, so we have we certainly have a website. It's
Vascular Surgery Associates dot net. It has all of our locations,
has a profile on all of us. You know, we
have a phone number that we can that you can
use as a four one oh eight seven nine two
zero zero six. And you know, if if you go
on the website, you can see the locations and if
(12:04):
you call the number, they'll connect you with the folks
at that if at a particular location.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That suits you.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And and I always tell people when they meet, when
I meet them anyway, that if you know, if you know,
we we want to know. If if you feel like
you can't you're not getting it, we'll get you in.
Like we want to get people in and get it,
so we'll we'll make it happen.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's a good thing. That's fantastic. Doctor, Thank you so
much for your time. Doctor Andre Buchian's managing partner of
Vascular Surgery Associates LLC. Thank you very much, and I
appreciate your.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Time, my pleasure. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
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