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Presenting a united front to address vascular surgery’s structural and financial challenges
Vascular surgeons must present a unified front in order to address structural and financial challenges facing the specialty, Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President-Elect Keith Calligaro, MD, said in summing up this year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum at…
VAM 2025: Crawford Forum probes four reasonable strategies to empower vascular surgeons
“Go back home and get a vascular center or […] get a vascular department, or, you know, assess the compensation [survey] results and, at least start considering a union, if it’s something feasible.” That was the new Society for Vascular…
Crawford Forum: Empowering vascular surgeons
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum at the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in New Orleans, from 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m., on the Morial Convention Center’s First Floor (Great Hall A) seeks to address some of the structural and…
Vascular-VP: ‘The blueprint for what a quality vascular program should look like’
Some of the benefits to quality care provision ensuing from participation in the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and SVS Vascular Verification Program (Vascular-VP) could be almost immediate. This is among the insights set to feature during one of the…
Verified vascular! Quality care in vascular disease
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and American College of Surgeons (ACS) Vascular Verification Program (Vascular-VP) will be a central focus on the opening day of the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) as the topic of the E. Stanley Crawford…
Vascular surgery added as named specialty to influential national hospital rankings
U.S. News & World Report has renamed the specialty formerly known as “Cardiology & Heart Surgery” to include vascular surgery in its national rankings of the best hospitals in the country. The category will now be called “Cardiology, Heart & Vascular…
Crawford panel focuses minds on challenges facing vascular surgery workforce numbers
Yesterday’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum, which looked at ways to address the pipeline of sources feeding the vascular surgery pool of talent, yielded an illuminating perspective on the looming workforce crisis currently occupying leaders in the field. Speaking…
VAM 2023: President-elect zeroes in on complexity of issues within vascular surgery pipeline
The Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum this year probes the problems and the challenges facing the vascular surgery workforce pipeline. The opening day highlight—the domain of the incoming SVS president, Joseph Mills, MD—seeks to unravel…
Trust, transportation, insurance hamper ‘quality vascular surgery care for all,’ Crawford Forum hears
An absence of patient trust in their doctors and hospital systems yesterday morning emerged as a key talking point amid a comprehensive deep dive into some of the problems vascular surgeons tackle in their efforts to broaden access to quality…
Urban or rural: Ensuring access to quality vascular care ‘no matter what’
Michael Dalsing, MD, talks to Vascular Specialist about how his formative years growing up in rural Wisconsin, as well as experience of operating in inner-city Indianapolis, helped inform the topic he chose for this year’s Crawford Critical Issues Forum set…