Think it was the other way around. Ahn trained under Dr. Freischlag when she was the head of vascular surgery at UCLA, then took her position when she left for Johns Hopkins. Dr. Gelabert then trained under Ahn. When Dr. Ahn went into private practice, Gelabert assumed the head of vascular surgery position.

With Dr. F in Sacramento, we now have a top TOS doc in Northern CA, which is great! Nothing against Drs. Lee and Avery; it's just that she has a ton more experience with this tricky syndrome. Whatever problems people may have with her bedside manner (or lack thereof), Dr. Freischlag is an excellent surgeon by anyone's standard and she has earned this reputation, internationally, in an almost exclusively male world. The controversial world of TOS medicine that we all know and love!