David Rigberg, MD, clinical professor of surgery, at the UCLA Gonda School of Medicine in Los Angeles, has taken over as president of the Western Vascular Society (WVS).
Rigberg became the 2025–26 WVS president at the society’s annual meeting in Ojai, California (Sept. 14-17).
The 2024–25 president, Ahmed Abou-Zamzam, MD, delivered his outgoing presidential address with a look at how the concept of “value” is defined in the vascular surgical specialty and beyond. Abou-Zamzam is professor and chief in the Division of Vascular Surgery at Loma Linda University Health in Loma Linda, California.
