Brajesh K. Lal, MD, assumed the Eastern Vascular Society (EVS) presidency during the 2024 EVS annual meeting in Charleston, South Carolina (Sept. 19–22).
The professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore took over from Kathleen Ozsvath, MD, a vascular surgeon at St. Peters Health Partners in Albany, New York.
Benjamin Jackson, MD, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is now EVS president-elect.
Elsewhere on the EVS Executive Council, Ageliki Vouyouka, MD, a professor of surgery at Mount Sinai in New York City, took over as secretary and Misaki Kiguchi, MD, an associate professor of surgery in the Department of Surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., became a councilor-at-large.
The EVS held a successful day of service during the Charleston gathering. Several society members and advanced practice providers spent the evening of Friday, Sept. 20, at a downtown community center performing screenings for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and educating local residents on both venous and arterial disease.
Brajesh, congratulations.