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SVS Foundation work continues during year of challenges
Despite it being a year unlike any other, the increased generosity of the SVS Foundation donors allowed for the mission work to continue as planned. When the Foundation’s fiscal year began, April 1, 2020, the pandemic had only recently started…
Key MACRA changes highlighted
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is in its fifth calendar year, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to publish rule changes annually. CMS has limited the changes for 2021 Merit-based Incentive Payment System…
VESAP5 mobile app now available
The mobile app for the fifth edition Vascular Educational Self-Assessment Program (VESAP5)—for both Android and Apple operating systems—is now available. Apple users need to visit the App Store, while Android users should visit Google Play (play.Google.com). The companion application allows…
Corriere: Meetings about meetings and how not to have a bad one
The past year in which the concept of “the meeting” shifted almost entirely into the digital realm challenged everything from the constitution of the working day to the breadth of collective patience. Or, as Matthew Corriere, MD, at the helm…
‘Leading when everyone is watching—and when no one knows what to do’
The title of the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) Jesse E. Thompson, MD, Distinguished Guest Lecture was heralded as “Leading when everyone is watching,”—but COVID-19 lent the message Julie Ann Freischlag, MD, was attempting to transmit a certain sharpness.…
New SVS online portal heralds vascular education ‘on the go’
To great excitement on the part of leaders and members, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has launched its new Education Portal, the online hub for all SVS education content. The portal links to SVS’s live education offerings, the new…
SVS PAC recaps 2020, offers goals for 2021
It is difficult to put 2020 into words. However, despite everything bad that has gone on in the U.S. and nationally, the SVS PAC was lucky to have some successes. At the beginning of 2020, the PAC was losing ground…
UPDATED: First post-virus vascular meeting with in-person element declared success
The first major conference in the vascular surgery universe to incorporate an in-person element as part of a hybrid format has been declared a success, portending what attendees might expect from the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) set for San…
Why VAM was shifted to August amid COVID-19 vaccination rollout
To enhance the chances of being able to hold the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in-person, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has moved the conference, lock, stock and barrel to mid-August. This pre-eminent event for vascular education now will…
COVID-19 pandemic led to ‘severe’ financial loss for academic vascular surgery division
The initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in three-month sustained decreases in operative and outpatient clinical volume as well as a “severe” financial loss for a U.S. academic vascular surgery division, researchers from a prominent health system in an…