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Shipra Arya, MD, SM, FACS, DFSVS

Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA, United States

Shipra Arya, MD SM FACS DFSVS is a Professor of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Section Chief of Vascular Surgery at VA Palo Alto Healthcare System (VAPAHCS). Dr. Arya is a national and international leader in health services research, surgical quality improvement, clinical trials and peripheral artery disease research. Her area of scholarly focus is improving surgical quality and patient centered outcomes for vulnerable patient populations. She has expertise in large database quantitative research, mixed methods, pragmatic clinical trials and implementation science. She has been funded by American Heart Association (AHA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D). Currently she is the PI of a large multicenter stepped wedge cluster randomized hybrid effectiveness-implementation clinical trial called “Patient-centered multidisciplinary Care for veterans Undergoing Surgery (PAUSE) trial”.

She has multiple leadership roles in surgical quality improvement as Director of Surgical Quality at VA Palo Alto and the Medical Director of the Northern California region of Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI). She serves on the steering committee of the Vascular Implant Surveillance and Interventional Outcomes Network (VISION) to improve the quality, safety and effectiveness of vascular care through an FDA-VQI collaboration. She has served as the President of the Surgical Outcomes Club, a national organization of surgical health services researchers, and chairs multiple national committees. Her excellence and contributions to the field of vascular surgery were recently recognized as she received the status of Distinguished Fellow for the Society for Vascular Surgery in 2023.

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