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A fantasy
The day had gone very well. The vascular surgeon woke early excited for a morning in the OR and then an afternoon in the office. Driving to the hospital, he had planned out his day. A patient with a fempop…
Preventive health: Getting rid of the middleman (uh-oh, that’s us!)
As physicians, we find that preventive health is, frankly, really difficult. It requires thinking about a changing list of recommendations unprompted by the symptoms for which patients present. Compounding that challenge is that, in doing preventive health well, we need…
Society for Vascular Ultrasound, Society for Vascular Surgery and Medstreaming-M2S Introduce New Vascular Ultrasound Registry
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…
First 2018 Membership Application Deadline is March 1
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.
Community-Practice Surgeons! Apply for YOUR Grant
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…
Applications due Feb. 1 for VAM Scholarships, Research Fellowship
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…
Register Today for May 9 VRIC
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,…
Acronym Alert: EVAR is Now EVR
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…
Two VAM Scholarship, Fellowship deadlines are Feb. 1
Two Important VAM Deadlines are Wednesday
The deadline is Wednesday, Jan. 17, for two important research endeavors related to the 2018 Vascular Annual Meeting: abstract submissions and the Resident Research Award. This year’s VAM will be June 20 to 23 at the Hynes Convention Center in…