Alik Farber, MD, surgeon-in-chief at Boston Medical Center and James Utley professor and chair of surgery at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, is the new president of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery (NESVS).
Farber took over from outgoing president Jessica Simons, MD, director of the vascular surgery residency program at UMass Memorial Health in Wocester, Massachusetts, and professor of surgery at the UMass Chan Medical School, during the 2025 NESVS annual meeting in Providence, Rhode Island (Sept. 26–28).
The new NESVS president-elect is Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar, MD, associate professor of surgery in the division of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
Kwame Amankwah, MD, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at UConn Health in Farmington, Connecticut, became the new vice president of NESVS. Amankwah took over from Britt Tonnessen, MD, associate professor of surgery and associate program director of the vascular residency program at the Yale School of Medicine.
