“BLACK PATIENTS PRESENT WITH MORE SEVERE VASCULAR DISEASE AND A GREATER BURDEN OF RISK FACTORS THAN WHITE PATIENTS AT TIME OF MAJOR VASCULAR INTERVENTION.” Journal of Vascular Surgery, February 2018. African Americans come into the vascular operating room with significant…

Applications are due March 2 for the Wylie Scholar Award, co-sponsored by the SVS Foundation and Vascular Cures. The three-year, $150,000 grant is awarded to a promising vascular surgeon-scientist in North America and is designed to support outstanding surgeon-scientists conducting…

SVS members, please remind any vascular PAs with whom you work to consider submitting an abstract for the inaugural PA programming or be a speaker during our 2018 Vascular Annual Meeting. More information is here — please forward to your…

The Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU), the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), and Medstreaming-M2S, announce the development of the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) Vascular Ultrasound Registry. This Registry represents an expansion of the SVS VQI which will combine noninvasive (vascular…

To improve access, efficiency and service to existing and future SVS members, the Society is now reviewing and approving membership applications quarterly, instead of yearly. The first deadline for 2018 is March 1. Learn more at vsweb.org/JoinSVS and apply today.

There’s only a month left to apply for the new SVS Foundation grant program for our community practice members and designed at improving community health. Applications are due March 1 for the new Community Awareness and Prevention Project Grant, intended…

SVS members, please encourage medical or pre-med students interested in vascular surgery to apply for scholarships to attend the 2018 Vascular Annual Meeting. Scholarship applications are due by Feb. 1. The awards are the General Surgery Resident/Medical Student Travel Scholarship…

Registration is now open for the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference, to be held May 9 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. The one-day meeting emphasizes emerging vascular science and is held the day before the American Heart Association’s Arteriosclerosis,…

Recent references to “EVR” coding changes weren’t typos. We really meant “EVR” and not the “EVAR” with which we are all familiar. That’s because there’s been a change in vascular surgery acronyms. EVAR – Endovascular Aneurysm Repair – has become…