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Sanford Health vascular surgeon Dr. Pat Kelly, left, and his research team are giving patients with thoracoabdominal aneurysms less invasive treatment options through the flexible, branching stent grafts that Kelly designs. Team members, front row to Kelly’s right, are Katie Pohlson and Joni Sengos; middle row from left, Nicole Wendling, Angela Vandenhull and Roxanne Heitkamp; and back row from left, Amber Wolf, Karla Reilly and Tyler Remund. Kelly and Remund, a biomedical engineer, have collaborated with South Dakota State University associate mechanical engineering professor Stephen Gent, who does computational fluid dynamic modeling of stent grafts for the Sanford team.