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Search for new JVS editor-in-chief has commenced
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has launched a search for a new editor-in-chief (EIC) for its flagship publication, the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS). The selected EIC will oversee the academic and editorial quality of JVS and collaborate closely with key editorial staff, including the senior managing editor, publisher, executive editor and fellow editors-in-chief.…
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SCVS 2025: Rowe becomes SCVS president
Vincent Rowe, MD, from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), became the 2025–26 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) president during the Society’s 52nd Annual Symposium in Austin, Texas (March 29–April 2). Falling in line behind him are Peter Faries, MD, from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, as…
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SVS prepares to educate latest group of vascular leaders
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has launched registration for the sixth cohort of its Leadership Development Program (LDP). The curriculum is drawn from the highest quality evidenced-based model on leadership, the book The Leadership Challenge, written by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, with an intense focus on applying this knowledge to the…
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SVS, medical organizations launch comprehensive Wound Care Curriculum
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), in collaboration with the Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) and the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA), has designed an interprofessional curriculum to meet the needs of vascular wound care teams. As the collaborating organizations emphasize, this initiative marks the first of its kind in vascular-specific wound care. The organizations…
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SCVS 2025: TBE device provides ‘safer’ option than TEVAR for blunt thoracic injuries in setting of zone 2 coverage
Use of the Gore Tag thoracic branch endoprosthesis (TBE) “offers a safer alternative” to traditional thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) with left subclavian artery (LSA) coverage in blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI) requiring zone 2 coverage for zone 2 or proximal zone 3 injuries without requiring a concomitant or delayed subclavian revascularization, according to a…
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SCVS 2025: Multicenter data show favorable role for FEVAR over chimney grafts
A multi-institutional analysis has demonstrated fenestrated endovascular aneurysm repair (FEVAR) could be a “safer and more durable option” than chimney EVAR (ChEVAR) in elective juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) cases with suitable anatomy, offering potentially “greater generalizability to real-world practice.” ChEVAR was associated with significantly higher rates of type I endoleak and reintervention than FEVAR…
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Study details radiation exposure learning curve among vascular trainees
The importance of radiation safety training for vascular surgery trainees was highlighted by a recent study that detailed a learning curve effect between first- and second-year fellows performing fluoroscopically guided interventions. Using optically stimulated dosimeters fitted outside and under lead aprons, researchers at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern in Dallas detected that median thyroid…
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VOYAGE scholarship program for young vascular surgeons
Th e Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Foundation, in partnership with the SVS Young Surgeons Section, has launched the VOYAGE Scholarship Program. This initiative will provide $1,000 scholarships to assist early-career vascular surgeons during their formative years in the profession. The recipients can use the funds to continue medical education courses, professional development events, and other…
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Novel thrombectomy system for VTE used successfully in first tranche of first-in-human cases
SonoVascular has announced the successful completion of an initial set of eight deep vein thrombosis (DVT) cases using its SonoThrombectomy system as part of a first-in-human (FIH) study of the device. All cases achieved a complete Marder score reduction as assessed by an independent core laboratory, while significant improvements from baseline in Villalta score, revised…
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‘How to thrive, not just survive, as a vascular surgeon’
Outgoing Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) President Misty Humphries, MD, used her presidential address to outline how trainees and young vascular surgeons can “thrive and not just survive as a vascular surgeon.” The University of California, Davis interim chief of vascular surgery provided five lessons she has learned to help enable her success during…