Tag: Community practice
SVS announces merger creating Section on Ambulatory Vascular Care
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) announced the merger of its Section on Outpatient and Office Vascular Care (SOOVC) and the Community Practice Section...
Nominations open for 2024 SVS Excellence in Community Practice Award
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is calling for nominations for its Excellence in Community Practice Award, which recognizes outstanding leadership within the community...
Vascular branding: Determining a vascular surgeon’s value
A vascular surgeon's value includes far more than direct revenues from procedures performed, said SVS member Robert Tahara, MD, recently. He told surgeons to...
Analysis finds no difference in TCAR outcomes between academic, community hospitals
A new study found no difference in perioperative outcomes and incidence of adverse events at follow-up after transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) between academic and...
SVS unveils latest addition to JVS family of publications
The year 2023 promises to be one of change for the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) family of publications, including the introduction of a...
Deadlines coming for scholarships, grants, awards
Deadlines arrive by March 1, with some as early as this month, for a number of Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and SVS Foundation...
SOOVC sub-section introduces two awards
The Society for Vascular Surgery's sub-section for those who provide service in outpatient settings has created two professional development opportunities for its members, a...
Vascular practice: Financial wellness is focus of Nov. 2 SVS webinar
Responding to members’ requests for more information on financial education, a nationally known estate and tax attorney will provide information and guidance on financial...
Navigating EMRs: SVS webinar to demonstrate how to make them work...
Vascular surgeons can learn how to make electronic medical records (EMRs) work for them at a webinar Sept. 7. The webinar, sponsored jointly by...
Outgoing SVS president’s message of unity: ‘We must work together to...
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is no longer the organization it was half a century ago. That was one of the core messages...
VAM 2022 Opening Ceremony: ‘Our Society is what it is because...
From the first Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) that featured just eight papers, to VAM 2022 with many more times that number of presentations, each...
SVS special membership sections stage education sessions
For the first time, all those who are part of the five Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) membership sections have educational presentations geared specifically...
Nominations due March 31 for community practice award
Nominations for the Society for Vascular Surgery‘s prestigious Excellence in Community Practice Award are due March 31.
The honor, formerly known as the Excellence in...
Community practice award deadline extended
There's still time! The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has extended the deadline to nominate an SVS member for the prestigious Excellence in Community...
UPDATED: Last call for community practice accolade
The clock is ticking to submit nominations for the 2022 Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Excellence in Community Practice Award—with an extended deadline now...
Members involved in suggesting topics for VAM 2022 sessions
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) program planners are finalizing the lineup and topics for several types of educational session for the 2022 Vascular Annual...
Nominate ‘giver, doer’ for Excellence in Community Service Award
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is asking members to consider who among the many excellent vascular surgeons they may know in community practice...
WVS 2021: Community surgeons report improved rAAA survival after adoption of...
Overall survival improved from 71% to 80% after a group of community practice surgeons started using an endovascular-first approach to ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm...
SVS honors community practitioners
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) honored six members Thursday with the Excellence in Community Service award.
This award, in only its third year, honors...
Postgraduate courses stacked with key content
Selecting topics for postgraduate courses, concurrent and breakfast sessions, and “Ask the Experts” presentations at the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) is a careful, considered...
SVS Town Hall on June 30 hones in on value of...
The next Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Town Hall will focus on the value of an office-based lab (OBL) to the healthcare system, patients...
SVS creates section for members in community practice
To better meet the needs of those Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members who practice in the community setting, the SVS has approved a...
OBL: Keys to success in the outpatient setting
The ability to pivot in the face of changes to reimbursement while still meeting the needs of patients is a key facet of success...
Candidates for 2021-22 SVS vice president revealed
The candidates in the running to be the next Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) vice president—and a future SVS president—have been unveiled.
They are William...
Upcoming webinars: May to feature exchanges on coding, employment
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Community Practice Committee will host two webinars in May designed to support members in community-practice settings. Members may...
SVS seeks nominees for prestigious community practice award by May 1
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is on the lookout for candidates for the next Excellence in Community Service Award, with the deadline for...
Surgeons discuss early efforts rolling out SVS Branding Toolkit
Two-and-a-half years back, when Kathryn E. Bowser, MD, joined her current institution as a vascular surgeon, a confluence of unfolding events led her to...
Upcoming symposium for fellows: ‘Building a successful vascular practice’
A symposium designed to educate graduating vascular fellows on succeeding in a community or private practice as well as an academic setting is set...
Target 2021: SVS councils and committees drill down on key goals...
While there is little doubt the pandemic has impacted each vascular surgeon and the SVS as a Society in numerous ways, the commitment and...
OBL: Community surgeons discuss surviving private practice in office-based labs
Outpatient settings like office-based laboratories (OBLs) have attracted increased scrutiny in recent times amid efforts to shine greater light on appropriateness in care. During...
Study: The ‘successful’ operation of TCAR in a community practice setting
A research team in Dallas demonstrated the successful operation of transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) in a community practice setting, reporting results in line with...
Local matters: Three community service honorees in profile
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has honored three members in community practice for their leadership of patients and their local communities, as well...