Specialists in outpatient, minimally invasive vascular surgery

 


Meet the UVA Team

 

Samuel Ahn, MD

Dr. Ahn is a board-certified vascular surgeon and attending surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center, the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, and St John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. Before founding UVA, Dr. Ahn was on the full time faculty at UCLA from 1986 to 2006, serving as Director of Endovascular Surgery from 1998 to 2006.


 

Rhoda Leichter, MD

Dr. Leichter is a board-certified vascular surgeon and attending surgeon at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and at St John's Health Center in Santa Monica. From 1997 to 2004, Dr. Leichter was an assistant professor of surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and Thomas Jefferson University in Philidephia.


 

Deborah Caswell, RN, NP

Ms. Caswell has been a nurse practitioner in vascular care for over 12 years. She has taught at the UCLA School of Nursing and was Assistant Director of the Gonda Vascular Center at the UCLA Medical Center before joining University Vascular Associates. Ms. Caswell's focus is on wound care and venous disease.