The Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) elected Margaret (Megan) Tracci, MD, to become its first ever woman president for the 2025–26 cycle.
Tracci, a professor of surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, will serve as SAVS president-elect during 2024–25. Tracci is a past president of the Virginia Vascular Society.
Alan Lumsden, MD, the Walter W. Fondren III Presidential Distinguished Chair of the DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center at Houston Methodist, is the 2024–25 SAVS president.
Lumsden took over from David L. Cull, MD, professor of surgery at the University of South Carolina in Greenville, at the SAVS business meeting, which took place Jan. 27, at the close of the association’s 2024 annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona (Jan. 24–27).
