Jessica P. Simons, MD, has become the 2024–25 president of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery (NESVS). She is the first woman to serve as NESVS president since the society was formed in 1973.
She assumed the role at the 2024 NESVS annual meeting held in Portland, Maine (Oct. 25–27), taking the reins from 2023–24 President Robert A. Cambria, MD.
Simons is a professor of surgery at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the institution’s integrated vascular surgery residency program director.
Cambria is the medical director of vascular care at Northern Light Health/Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine.