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Innovation: ISET audience hears what’s on the horizon for CLTI patients
“I am going to give you reasons to be excited about your critical limb practice,” Peter Schneider, MD, professor of vascular and endovascular surgery at the University of California San Francisco, told delegates attending the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy…
Apply for VAM travel scholarships by May 19
Medical students and general surgery residents have until May 19 to apply for Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) travel scholarships. The scholarships are the SVS General Surgery Resident/Medical Student VAM Travel Scholarship and the SVS Diversity…
Registration for VAM 2021 now open
Registration and housing opened today for the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), which takes place Aug. 18–21 in San Diego. Educational programming is ready to run across all four days, with exhibits open Thursday and Friday. The meeting will be…
Voting on bylaws, vice president begins May 17
Voting runs from May 17 to 24 on proposed bylaws amendments and for the position of vice president of the Society for Vascular Surgery. Immediately preceding the opening of voting, SVS leaders will host a Town Hall from 6 to…
Honor mentors with gift to SVS Foundation
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members can honor their mentors in a wonderful and consequential way by making a donation to the SVS Foundation in their mentors’ honor. Several members did just that for National Doctors’ Day, with $3,100 in…
Register for upcoming ‘Meet the Experts’ webinars
Register today for the remaining Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) “Meet the Experts” webinars, including “Redo Carotid Revascularization,” to be held May 20. These webinars are free for SVS members and residents Non-members will pay $35 for each webinar. They…
The top 10 most popular stories from April
Our April cover story on the links between electronic health records (EHRs) and physician burnout, the continuing problem of manels (or all-male speaking panels) at vascular surgery meetings, and some of the latest details on the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting…
Endologix announces launch of Alto abdominal stent graft in Canada
Endologix today announced the first implant of its Alto abdominal stent graft in Canada following recent approval from Health Canada. Alto was also recently approved for commercial sale in Argentina. The company heralds the Alto abdominal stent graft system as…
A love for writing
Welcome to Corner Stitch, a brand new section by and for trainees. First up is outgoing Vascular Specialist residents and fellows editor Laura Marie Drudi, MD, who introduces this monthly column with a retrospective on her time representing medical students,…
An open letter to Epic Systems
Dear Epic, I am not writing to you today as a customer, but rather on behalf of your users. More specifically, I am representative of the 870 American Medical Association (AMA) physicians who gave their electronic health record (EHR) an…