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SVS Foundation grant fuels barbershop-based PAD screening in Philadelphia
A single Philadelphia zip code once carried one of the highest rates of non-traumatic limb amputation in the country. Three years into a screening program built around an unlikely setting — the neighborhood barbershop — that number has fallen sharply…
SVS recognizes leaders in community vascular practice at VAM 2026
Each year the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) honors a member with the Excellence in Community Practice Award, recognizing outstanding leadership shown by a practicing vascular surgeon within their community. The honor recognizes sustained contributions to patients, exemplary professional practice…
Peter Lawrence receives SVS Lifetime Achievement Award
A career that nearly began on the football field instead of in the operating room culminated at VAM 2026 in the highest honor of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), as Peter Lawrence, MD, received the SVS Lifetime Achievement Award…
SVS election results announced during Annual Business Meeting
During the Annual Business meeting at VAM 2026, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) announced it elected William Shutze, MD, as the incoming vice president and Bernadette Aulivola, MD, as the new treasurer. As vice president, Shutze will help coordinate…
Surgical societies respond to updated pulmonary embolism clinical practice guidelines
In a recent editorial, stakeholders responded to the exclusion of vascular surgical societies from participating in developing updated clinical practice guidelines for the management of acute pulmonary embolism from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology…
SVS awarded CMSS grant to expand age-friendly vascular ambulatory care
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has been selected as one of six specialty societies nationwide to receive a competitive grant from the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), in partnership with The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF), to advance…
The evolving role of academic outpatient vascular centers
Outpatient vascular care has moved from an alternative site of service to the default setting for much of modern practice. Vascular Specialist marked this shift by launching its column, The Outpatient, beginning with the edition titled “In focus: Outpatient vascular…
New blunt thoracic aortic injury guidelines reflect evolution in evidence and care
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has published new clinical practice guidelines on the management of blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI), reflecting more than a decade of evolving evidence since the prior recommendations were published in 2011. BTAI remains one…
SVS Foundation travel grant to support early-career female vascular surgeons
Women make up only 16% of the vascular surgery workforce, yet female vascular surgeons are 2.05 times more likely to leave practice than their male counterparts, according to a study published in The Journal of Surgical Research. Closing that retention…
Introducing the vascular surgery MIPS Value Pathway: A new era for meaningful, specialty-driven quality reporting
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized a new Merit-based Incentive Payment (MIPS) System Value Pathway (MVP) specifically for vascular surgery — an important milestone for our specialty and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS). Developed by…