The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has announced Linda Harris, MD, as its next vice president, meaning that she enters the presidential line and will become SVS leader in 2026.
The announcement was made during the SVS Annual Business Meeting, held on June 22 in Chicago as part of the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM 2024).
The vice-presidential election process took place online, beginning in early June, and garnered some 867 SVS members who cast a ballot during the voting period.
Harris, a professor of surgery and the program director for the vascular surgery fellowship and residency programs at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, began her tenure as SVS vice president immediately following the announcement, and will serve in the role through to VAM 2025 in New Orleans, where she will become president-elect.
“I’m honored to have been elected as vice president with the chance to eventually become president of this amazing Society,” said Harris, a former president of the Eastern Vascular Society (EVS), after she was unveiled as the new vice president. “We have so much that we can really do if we work together; the threats that we face are primarily outside threats, and that’s why we need to come together.
“If we are fractured, we won’t succeed. We have so many bright minds and capable people. I want to engage everyone who would like to be involved. Anyone who has ideas, please feel free to reach out. We want to hear what you have to say because you’re part of us and we all have to work together.”
