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Fund hope with the SVS Foundation
A gift to the SVS Foundation funds not just things—patient education fliers, research awards and community awareness projects—but also hope for a better future. Hope that screenings identify people at risk for a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. That research uncovers…
Clarion call: Application deadlines for research awards coming up
Applications for three Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Foundation awards are coming up early in the new year. The Resident Research Award (Jan. 13, 2021) is open to surgical and vascular surgery trainees. This prestigious award carries with it the…
‘Smile’ to benefit SVS Foundation
The holidays are close upon us, and many Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members will be shopping online this month and next. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, prompted many people to do even more shopping online then before. Those…
Dig deep this Giving Tuesday
Will you give on Giving Tuesday? This will be the SVS Foundation’s third year marking the annual global day of giving—Dec. 1, this year—which follows Thanksgiving and the big shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The day is…
With an eye on the past, SVS Foundation looking ahead to stable future
Before we can look to where we’re going, we need to look to where we’ve been. And we do just that, in the pages of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Foundation Annual Report, available at vsweb.org This has been…
SVS Foundation Board structure changed
The SVS Foundation Board of Directors has altered its infrastructure, including expanding the board and adding seats specifically for public members and changing the term of the Foundation chair to a three-year instead of a one-year term. Expanding the board…
Resident Research Award: Extracellular vesicles enhance DVT via RIPK3
Extracellular vesicles enhance deep vein thrombosis (DVT) via receptor interacting protein kinase-3 (RIPK3), the study that claimed this year’s SVS Foundation Resident Research Award found, raising the suggestion of a causal relationship between necroptosis and hypercoagulative states seen in various…
Tickets on sale for 2020 Foundation Gala
The “Vascular Spectacular” Gala was one of the highlights of the 2019 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), and it’s sure to be the same in 2020. Join your colleagues and friends at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 19, to celebrate your specialty…
Save the date for 2020 SVS Foundation Gala
Attendees had a “spectacular” evening at the 2019 SVS Foundation Gala, and organizers urge all members attending the 2020 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in June to keep that Friday evening clear for this year’s event. The 2020 SVS Foundation Gala…
Vital importance of funding for pair of separate needs
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has two dedicated member-supported service organizations fulfilling very distinct needs: the SVS Foundation and the SVS Political Action Committee. Both are vitally important to the future of the vascular specialty and our lives as…