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SVS ONLINE: Virtual program and associated events take shape
Planning continues unabated for the highly anticipated SVS ONLINE, set to kick off June 20 and run through July 2 in lieu of the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), with registration opening June 1. Attendees can look forward to two Annual Business Meeting sessions—one in the run-up to the virtual conference June 15, and the other…
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SVS ONLINE: How VAM program was transformed for virtual alternative
How do you turn a live event for thousands of participants and exhibitors into a trimmed-down, online experience? Carefully, and not easily. “We got here because COVID-19 happened,” wryly observed Matthew Eagleton, MD, chair of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Program Committee, shortly after planners and staff completed most of the new schedule for…
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SVS ONLINE: Carving out virtual version of VAM invited sessions amid COVID-19
As Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Postgraduate Education Committee chair Vikram Kashyap, MD, tells it, the organizers behind programming for the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) had never before been confronted with such a mammoth task. Like it did in all but a handful of areas of public life, the novel coronavirus landed like a wrecking…
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Med students: Q&A webinar on vascular specialty slated for May 13
An event aimed at attracting medical students to the vascular specialty has been organized by the Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS), the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS). The three bodies are inviting third-year students to participate in the special Zoom meeting hosted by the…
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SVS ONLINE: Call for pandemic-focused late-breaking abstracts
Over the course of the summer, SVS ONLINE will provide attendees with an innovative program featuring both live webinars and on-demand sessions. The event will deliver scientific abstracts and an educational component focused on timely and relevant content. To address the current pandemic on the scientific program, SVS is soliciting late-breaking abstracts focused on scientific…
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SVS remains nimble in face of spreading pandemic, pivots to member priorities
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) started 2020 with plans intensifying for the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) in May, the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in June, the launch of the branding initiative, along with a host of other SVS priorities. Within eight weeks, COVID-19 had prompted a rapid, decisive pivot to SVS members’ changing…
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Official: SVS cancels VAM
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has officially pulled the plug on the 2020 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) scheduled to take place in Toronto from June 17–20 amid the continuing surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its place, the SVS will now stage a series of online programs—built from the best science and education that…
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Update on VAM 2020 issued by SVS
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has placed members on notice that the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) slated for June 17–20 in Toronto looks increasingly “unlikely” in the shadow of the coronavirus outbreak. Writing on SVSConnect, the online community of the SVS membership, Society secretary Amy Reed, MD, said leadership figures continue to work through…
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American Venous Forum, AVF, Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome, Pulmonary embolism, Varicose veins, Venous disease, Wellness
Elder statesman of venous disease delivers golfing metaphor for fortitude, wellness
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.—As a podium talk at the annual meeting of the American Venous Forum (AVF), it represented a bit of an outlier. It was, the presenter admitted, the only non-scientific talk on the program. But the speaker was no mere upstart, the particular session not an ordinary rundown of figures. Venous disease was indeed…
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Aortic aneurysms, Conflicts of interest, highly-cited manuscripts, ProPublica Dollars for Docs, transparency, VESS
Study suggests 90% of aortic aneurysm papers do not reveal physician conflicts of interest
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo.— Almost 90% of authors who received industry-reported payments did not disclose a financial conflict of interest in their manuscript, a study exploring the issue of compensation made to physician-specialist authors of highly-cited aortic aneurysm papers discovered. The finding was highlighted by Tiffany Bellomo, BS, from the department of surgery, Section of Vascular…