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SVS president calls time on disengagement and disunity: ‘It’s time for a change’
Vascular surgeons should come together to present a unified voice in the world of medicine—it’s time for a change, to recommit, build bridges and find common ground across a fragmented membership, and time for leaders who are willing to engage…
Heart and vascular centers: ‘It’s a financial thing, that’s the whole reason for their existence’
“The reason to avoid a heart and vascular paradigm is [that] there really is no paradigm. There’s no set standard for how these things should function. There’s certainly no evidence that they benefit patient care,” says Malachi Sheahan III, MD,…
VAM 2025: Crawford Forum probes four reasonable strategies to empower vascular surgeons
“Go back home and get a vascular center or […] get a vascular department, or, you know, assess the compensation [survey] results and, at least start considering a union, if it’s something feasible.” That was the new Society for Vascular…
SVS president will stake ‘reclaiming center’ in VAM 2025 address
One of the singular highlights of VAM 2025—the presidential introduction and address—will take place this morning from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. on Morial CC’s First Floor (Great Hall A), with SVS President Matthew Eagleton, MD, centering his focus on the Society’s…
Significant life and limb gains for claudicants who stop smoking before lower-extremity bypass
Long-term overall survival (OS) and amputation-free survival (AFS) are outcomes that rebound in claudicants who quit smoking prior to elective surgery—and they mirror those of never smokers. But patients who don’t kick the habit have significantly worse outcomes, lighting up…
Outgoing SVS president’s message of unity: ‘We must work together to improve, advance vascular care’
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is no longer the organization it was half a century ago. That was one of the core messages from the Society’s now Immediate Past President Ali AbuRahma, MD, during his Presidential Address at the…
New SVS president outlines priorities for his tenure as Society aims to reach out
Michael Dalsing, MD, who took over as Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) president at the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston (June 15–18), talks about the priorities he has set out for his time at the helm, which include…
New SVS vice president: ‘How do vascular surgeons differ? We provide comprehensive vascular care’
New Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vice President Joseph Mills, MD, talks to Vascular Specialist about how inclusivity is at the forefront of SVS diversity and equity efforts; the benefits of global collaboration in the treatment of vascular disease; his…