About VascularGuide
A concise resource to support vascular screening, triage, and patient-centred decision-making.
About
VascularGuide is a nonprofit clinical learning platform and toolkit dedicated to improving vascular screening, triage, and shared decision-making across primary care and specialty settings. The site provides evidence-informed screening tools, clinical calculators, and decision aids that are designed to be practical and easy to use for clinicians and trainees.
VascularGuide hosts the first interactive abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening tool and continues to expand its offerings in response to clinical feedback and evolving evidence. All tools are developed with reference to current literature and in consultation with family physicians and vascular specialists. VascularGuide’s objective is to increase appropriate screening uptake, support earlier identification of at-risk patients, and foster informed, patient-centred discussions about management options.
VascularGuide is intended as an adjunct educational resource for clinicians and learners. The tools are not a substitute for clinical judgment, diagnosis, or individualized patient care. Clinicians should always interpret results in the context of the full clinical picture and current clinical guidelines.
Privacy
We take user privacy and data security seriously. Connections to VascularGuide are secured using industry-standard encryption (HTTPS/TLS) to protect information transmitted between your browser and our site. The platform does not collect or retain patient-identifiable information: inputs entered into calculators and decision aids are de-identified (anonymous) and are not stored on our servers.
Where technically possible, algorithmic processing and calculations are performed client-side (in your browser). This means that clinical inputs remain local to your device and are not transmitted to VascularGuide servers for storage or processing. We do not retain logs of user inputs tied to patient identifiers.
Founder
Shireen Fikree, is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Toronto and the founder of VascularGuide.com. She holds a Master of Science in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University and has led registry-based research investigating sex-based disparities in abdominal aortic aneurysm outcomes.
Her scholarship includes work on diabetic foot care and patient perspectives on limb preservation, presented at national meetings. Shireen created VascularGuide to translate research and clinical expertise into accessible tools that support screening, education, and shared decision-making across care settings.