Eike Sebastian Debus is Professor for Surgery and Chair of the Department of Vascular Medicine, University of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Sebastian Debus is the current Secretary General of the European Society for Vascular Surgery. He was President of the German Vascular Society 2013/2014, chairs the Northern German Society of Surgery since 2013 and is Secretary of the Northern German Society for Vascular Medicine. He was member of the presidium of the German Society of Surgery 2013/2014. He served as chief editor of the `Journal of Wound healing´ (2000-2005), Gefässchirurgie, Springer (2004-2013), founding Editor of GefäßmedizinScan (Thieme) since 2014 and is member of the editorial board of various international journals. His main research interests are vascular epidemiology and vascular care, aortic pathologies and peripheral occlusive disease. He is cofounder of the german vascular registry program and is engaged in various projects of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, i.e., the VascuNet initiative, board of directors of the European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery and member of the ESVSguidelines committee.