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Leadership: Spotlight on Amy Reed, MD
This interview continues our series of conversations with national vascular surgery leaders based on topics from the Kouznes and Pozner book “The Truth About Leadership.” This column highlights evidence-based behaviors on how to make a change stick. Amy Reed, MD,…
Joint symposium with UCLA returns in virtual form
From Aug. 15 to 30, UCLA will hold its Fifth Annual UCLA/SVS Symposium: A Comprehensive Review and Update of What’s New in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Given the circumstances of COVID-19, the program will be held virtually as a live…
Seattle team secures funding to examine COVID-19 impacts on aortic dissection
A team at the University of Washington in Seattle has received a funding award through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Eugene Washington Engagement Awards program to convene a collaborative of patients with—and at risk for—aortic dissection. Led by Sherene…
Study: Stroke risk higher in patients with COVID-19 than influenza
A higher rate of stroke has been reported in adults with COVID-19 compared to a cohort of patients with influenza. A retrospective study published in JAMA Neurology concludes that around 1.6% of adults with COVID-19 who visited the emergency department or who…
SPECIAL REPORT: Vascular surgeons from across world report on early response to pandemic
The seismic impact of the novel coronavirus on vascular surgery across the globe continues to be absorbed. Practice changed, and the specialty pivoted to meet the challenges posed head on. In the May issue of Vascular Specialist, we explored the…
SPECIAL REPORT: Across the world—early impact of COVID-19 on vascular surgeons
COVID-19 has changed our world and surgical practices as vascular surgeons. We have been faced with unforeseen challenges, and the professional impact has been global. Elective procedures, the staple of our practice, have been indefinitely canceled and delayed. Clinics have…
SPECIAL REPORT: Reacting to virus in key locations across United States
Following on from part one of our June issue special report in which we explored global perspectives on how vascular surgeons were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in its earliest stages, in part two we hear from specialists in cities…
COVID-19 survey: Support of hospitals and societies ‘paramount’ to promoting well-being of vascular surgeons
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic practice, anxiety, coping and support survey for vascular surgeons, recently presented in a Special Scientific Session on COVID-19 during SVS ONLINE on June 27, reveal higher anxiety and stress levels in vascular surgeons worried about the negative consequences of…
Dispatches: Opening up a difficult conversation around systemic racism
Recent times have wrought a potent cocktail of cultural disarray on the psyche of the United States. In medicine and vascular surgery, this confluence of events has been acute. First COVID-19 halted elective surgery, bringing the specialty to a near…
SVS ONLINE: A meeting of firsts
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) notched up plenty of firsts this year with its virtual meeting, SVS ONLINE: “New Advances and Discoveries in Vascular Surgery.” These include the mere presentation of the first virtual meeting, of course, said Matthew…