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Abstracts for VRIC, VAM 2021
Calling surgeons and scientists: Your research is wanted. Submission sites are now open for two annual SVS meetings in 2021, the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) and the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM). The VRIC submission site will close Jan. 6,…
SVS makes commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
Following a year of study and including more than 40 separate goals, objectives and requested actions, the SVS Executive Board has received, reviewed and embraced the report of the SVS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force as a blueprint…
Coming up: VRIC and VAM 2021 submission portals set to open
Abstracts for next year’s Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) will be accepted beginning Nov. 3. VRIC 2021 is held the day before and in the same location as the American Heart Association’s “Vascular Discovery” scientific sessions. The meeting date and…
SVS president ponders challenges in year ahead
New SVS president Ronald L. Dalman, MD, has several initiatives he’d like to see move forward during the year of his presidency. These include a number of areas members have found challenging. “We put together the Crawford Forum [E. Stanley…
VAM 2021 to celebrate 75th anniversary of SVS
The 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting—to be held June 2 to 5, 2021 in San Diego—will be a celebration as well as an educational and networking event, as members break out the party hats and noisemakers to mark the 75th anniversary…
Students/residents: Free webinars and virtual program directory available
In early June, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Resident and Student Outreach Committee held the SVS Pathways to Vascular Surgery Practice 2020: “Planning Your Career in Vascular Surgery Practice” webinars. This program was developed specifically for general surgery residents…
Counting down till July 15 CME deadline
The SVS ONLINE conference may be firmly fixed in the rearview mirror but attendees are now staring down the barrel of the deadline for Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) self-assessment credits obtained through participation in the…
Study shows novel AI technology is better predictor of stroke than traditional methods
Boston-based medical technology company Elucid Bio, maker of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared and CE-marked vascuCAP software, announced Wednesday, July 1, that its novel artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrated a more than 70% improvement in accuracy of stroke prediction…
Paper on EVAR for large AAAs named 2020 poster winner
Livia de Guerre, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has been named winner of this year’s poster contest. This year’s contest was held virtually as part of SVS ONLINE: “New Advances and Discoveries in Vascular Surgery.” She…
Save the dates for VQI online sessions
VQI@VAM, the Vascular Quality Initiative’s annual meeting held in conjunction with the Vascular Annual Meeting, will also take a digital format in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic VQI—which seeks to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness and cost of vascular…