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Smile – we’ve got your pictures!
The best of our Vascular Annual Meeting photos are now on Flickr, a photo-sharing website. All photos are high resolution and free. If you’re looking for a photo of yourself at the podium or enjoying time with friends, you can…
VITA Funding Available for Translational Research Projects
Funding through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s VITA program is now available for those developing an innovative technology for treatment of vascular disorders or thrombotic diseases. VITA is a contract program supporting translational research projects that address unmet…
SVS IDE Application Template for Physician-Modified or Industry Manufactured Endografts Now Available
The SVS IDE Application template is now available. The template is for physician-modified endographs, or industry manufactured endovascular systems for infrarenal, juxtarenal or pararenal aortic aneurysms. Developed in collaboration with FDA, the template can be used for developing an original…
2015 VAM Recordings Available Now
Recordings and slides of almost all 2015 Vascular Annual Meeting sessions are now available online. Attendees should have received a link for their free online access; if you missed it, contact education@vascularsociety.org. If you were not able to attend the…
SVS Comprehensive Vascular Review Course
The SVS Comprehensive Vascular Review Course will be Aug. 28-29 near Chicago’s O’Hare airport. This educational activity is an intensive two-day vascular surgery review course designed to help practicing vascular surgeons update their knowledge base. The faculty consists of vascular…
The six Ps of vascular surgery
Vascular Surgery has evolved to balance clinical medicine, open and minimally invasive surgical interventions, and innovation into a unique career where technological advancement is constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible in surgical capabilities. Being awed and inspired by…
Witch hunts and hidden agendas
Witch hunt: An intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful or irrelevant evidence, and to punish accordingly. – Merriam-Webster Dictionary Over the years, several excellent vascular surgeons have either lost…
‘Medicar’– shared decision making? part III
Recently, my daughter asked my opinion of a salesperson’s suggestion that she spend extra for additional safety features on a new car she was buying. I recommended that the more safety features the better – after all it was her…
Still time to register for SVS intensive review course
Summer is a great time to pick up your Comprehensive Vascular Review Course. The Society for Vascular Surgery makes it even easier by offering everything you need in just two intensive days. This course is offered Aug. 28-29 at the…
UPDATE: Enrollment in BEST-CLI study is well underway
In the past few months the BEST-CLI study has continued to energetically enroll patients. More than 100 of the planned 120 trial sites have been activated across the U.S. and Canada, and more than 150 patients have been successfully enrolled.…