Ross Milner, MD, the Louis Block professor of surgery and chief of vascular surgery at the University of Chicago, became the new president of the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) in Cincinnati, Ohio, over the weekend.
Milner took over from outgoing President Patrick Muck, MD, chief of vascular surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, during the 2025 MVSS annual meeting (Sept. 18–20) in the city.
The new president-elect is Rachael Nicholson, MD, previously MVSS treasurer and director of the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Jill Colglazier, MD, a vascular surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, takes over as treasurer. Matthew Smeds, MD, a professor of surgery and the former division chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri, became a councilor.
