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VAM: Session on diversity set to feature on Friday of SVS annual meeting
Racial and ethnically based disparities exist in healthcare. To highlight these disparities, and what the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is doing to address them, the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) will feature a special session on diversity, equity and…
SVS creates much-anticipated DEI Committee
Fulfilling one of the first recommendations—and the highest priority—of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has created and appointed members to the new Diversity Committee. As is the case with the Finance…
Help diversity effort by completing member survey
To know where to go, you first have to know the starting point. “We cannot adequately measure our progress in the SVS on diversity, equity and inclusion if we do not have the requisite data to measure,” said Society for Vascular…
JVS appoints associate editor dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion
The Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) has announced the appointment of a new associate editor for clinical research who will be focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. Ulka Sachdev-Ost, MD, associate professor of vascular surgery at the University of Pittsburgh…