Tag: Diversity
When women are PIs: A story foretold on the vascular frontlines
“Multifactorial” issues persist in gender representation in vascular leadership and trial enrollment, leading women vascular surgeons tell Vascular Specialist.
"We would have fewer untoward side...
SVS urges members to take part in compensation survey—and bolster results
Organizers behind an SVS-commissioned financial compensation survey are calling on more members to fill out the short list of questions so that they can...
Vascular Specialist–September 2023
In this issue:
When women are PIs: A story foretold on the vascular frontlines
SVS members rally to respond to CMS carotid stenting coverage...
SVS diversity celebration at VAM 2023
The Society for Vascular Surgery celebrates all of its members at the inaugural Celebration of Diversity Reception at the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) 2023....
VAM 2023 meeting underscores commitment to DEI
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have been a focus for the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and continue to grow in importance. VAM 2023...
‘Voices of Vascular’ series celebrates Women’s History Month
The contributions of the Society for Vascular Surgery’s women members take center stage this month as part of the SVS Foundation’s “Voices of Vascular”...
SVS DEI Committee launches ‘Voices of Vascular’ series
To help celebrate the diversity in the vascular surgery specialty, the Society for Vascular Surgery Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee has launched “Voices of...
SAVS 2023: President reveals upcoming change to Society seal
Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) President William D. Jordan Jr., MD, used a portion of his 2023 Presidential Address to outline ways in...
Voting ends Dec. 18 on SVS bylaws revisions
Active and Senior Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members in good standing have until Dec. 18 to cast their ballots to change the composition...
EVS 2022: New study shows ‘encouraging increase in academic footprint of...
How does vascular surgery compare to other specialties in the growth of gender diversity in published research? “Are we leaders in the field, or...
Vascular Specialist–December 2022
In this issue:
Women in vascular: Annual summit dedicated to tackling key issues related to women’s vascular health and female workforce seeks to ‘enable...
NESVS 2022 Presidential Address: ‘We can create a bold new future...
“Collaborate, innovate, mentor, champion DEI and relish the opportunity to form deep connections with our amazing patients.” This was the key take-home message...
New diversity, equity and inclusion pillar signals additional priority for SVS...
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Foundation has been guided by the three long-term pillars of research and innovation, community vascular care and patient...
SVS asking members to expand diversity in Nominating Committee
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) will ask voting-eligible members to consider three revisions to article X of the SVS bylaws that would take...
Regional vascular presidents measure state of specialty
Vincent Rowe, MD, and Raghu Motaganahalli, MD, delivered Presidential Addresses at the Western Vascular Society (WVS) and the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) that...
SVS officer elections 2022: A glimpse into the electorate
The SVS Executive Board highlights details of the most recent Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) elections to inform members and further strengthen the process.
In...
Corner Stitch: Audible Bleeding cuts down to vascular core
Many Corner Stitch readers subscribe to Audible Bleeding, the vascular surgery podcast for updates on all things vascular—from vascular knowledge, to reviewing key Journal...
SVS charts its course ahead for diversity, equity and inclusion
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Michael Dalsing, MD, has added two more liaisons—Vincent Rowe, MD, and Palma Shaw, MD—to the SVS Executive Board...
DEI initiatives in vascular surgery: How are we doing?
The 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) has been touted as the most diverse to date. As attendees ourselves, we can attest to the increased...
Diversity gains momentum at JVS
The addition of a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) editor at the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) was found to be associated with more...
Mentorship: Why more vascular surgeons should consider mentoring young minds
Addressing challenges of diversity and inclusion within medical schools and the larger physician workforce should begin with a conversation about the intrinsic barriers to...
Diversity in care: ‘From being exclusive to more inclusive’
The role diversity played in the past, how it functions in the present, and where it might take vascular surgery in the future formed...
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...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in April 2022
The digital version of the April 2022 issue of Vascular Specialist, the most recent editorial by our medical editor focusing on diversity within the...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in March
Among the posts catching Vascular Specialist readers' eyes last month were the digital flipbook version of our March print edition, a new study looking...
Our past is prologue: We are losing the battle to train...
My mother was a child of the 1960s. Despite not having a college degree, she was determined to teach my sister and me that...
Vascular Specialist–April 2022
In this issue:
In our April cover story, we report from the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) Annual Symposium on new evidence that...
SVS creates membership section for women
Women make up a growing percentage of vascular surgeons. And they now have a new professional membership home within the Society for Vascular Surgery...
Writing and reviewing in the DEI space: Progress evident but ‘there’s...
It’s been more than 18 months since the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) implemented changes aimed in part at diversifying involvement with the publication...
Diversity efforts while in training: Is it just another box to...
2020 was a herald year. It ushered in a global pandemic and a reckoning with issues of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in our...
Marston: Diversity required to deliver comprehensive care to vascular disease population
William A. Marston, MD, was recalling a recent experience acting as a bone marrow donor for a family member, and the moment it dawned...
SAVS 2022: ‘Recruiting more women without knowing race/ethnicity of those women...
Failure to stratify gender by race or ethnicity, or vice versa, leads to missed opportunities in the recruitment of underrepresented members from the potential...
Venous disease: SVS DEI Committee seeks survey participants
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is calling on vascular surgeons to complete a survey focused on patterns...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in September
Five-year data from the ACST-2 trial comparing carotid endarterectomy and carotid artery stenting, a report from the Crawford Forum at the 2021 Vascular Annual...
Cuts to Medicare: ‘As vascular disease complexity increases, reimbursement for complex...
Outgoing Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) President Kellie Brown, MD, has seen fundamental changes to the way vascular surgery is practiced during her 20...
SVS: A lesson in unity through diverse talent
Today’s emphasis on diversity is nearly inescapable, while examples of true unity seem scarcer. Is there really a way the two can co-exist or...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in August
Our recent editorial on the status of the interview, one of the Presidential Addresses from the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), a slew of new...
SVS publishes diversity, equity and inclusion supplement—exploring route forward
On the heels of a worldwide pandemic that has helped expose deep disparities in healthcare, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) published a response—and...
Dalman: Meeting challenges of COVID-19, SVS future direction head-on
In his introduction to the second of two Presidential Addresses on the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) slate, new Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)...
‘Let’s move on to solutions,’ keynote speaker tells diversity, equity and...
Lee Kirksey, MD, issued an unapologetic apology of sorts at the outset of his discussion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issues. “If I...
Map out your VAM experience with the Online Planner
Get a jump start on planning your way through the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) with the SVS Online Planner. It includes the entire VAM...
SVS publishes DEI supplement to highlight challenges and opportunities within the...
With a firm eye on healing disparities in healthcare and within the vascular surgery specialty itself, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has published...
Special session on diversity enters VAM agenda
Over the course of more than a year, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have been brought into sharp focus by a compendium of events...
DEI: One speciality, many voices, diverse perspectives
Over the course of the last year, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has been on a journey toward fostering greater diversity, equity and...
Overcoming prejudice and uniting vascular surgery
The United States has been living through some charged times recently. Our profession is not immune to these conflagrations. In recent times, minority members...
Being queer without proximal or distal control
“What do you mean your partner? Does that mean a man?” These were among the questions one of my mentors asked me when we...
Patient: ‘Whole body wellness includes the mind and body’
Kathryn Bowser, MD, a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, talks to Justin Michel, 29, who...
Does this loofah make me look gay?
I doubt many people remember a specific time they watched C-SPAN, let alone the exact date. But on Dec. 18, 2010, there I was, in...
SVS: Progress made during year like no other
While the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects dominated 2020–21 fiscal year—including the cancellation of the live 2020 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM)—it did not deter...
Vascular Specialist–June 2021
In this special issue:
Members of the SVS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee introduce a multi-part special, featuring personal stories of overcoming prejudice,...
Elevating women in vascular surgery
Over a one-year period, Association of American Medical Colleges data showed that 25% of women in surgery reported experiencing disrespect based on their gender,...
In the room: Changes aplenty as VAM returns
The Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) is more anticipated than ever after the annus horribilis of 2020 and the pared-back, digital VAM alternative that was...
VAM: Session on diversity set to feature on Friday of SVS...
Racial and ethnically based disparities exist in healthcare. To highlight these disparities, and what the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is doing to address...
When there are none: Why manels are out
On June 12, 2019, the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, MD, made a public commitment to decline to take part...
‘Latinx’: How to understand and use the term
Three members of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, chaired by Vincent M. Rowe, MD, explain use and...
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...
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...
Executive Board commits to DEI changes
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force’s findings and recommendations are taking shape, with some already implemented.
After...
NESVS outgoing president makes diversity pitch
During the virtual annual meeting of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery (NESVS), outgoing president Marc L. Schermerhorn, MD, called for the NESVS...
Give people a fair chance and watch the results
Ten years ago when we wrote a paper on diversity that was published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS), it barely caused a...
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...
New JVS associate editor for diversity traces footsteps of her mother
It took Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) associate editor Ulka Sachdev-Ost, MD, a while to realize just how much of an impact her mother’s...
SVS makes commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
Following a year of study and including more than 40 separate goals, objectives and requested actions, the SVS Executive Board has received, reviewed and...
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,...
Through the looking glass: Addressing bias in surgery
The #Medbikini campaign spread like wildfire following the publication of the journal article in question. Reading the manuscript seemed like we crossed the threshold...
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...
Sheahan: On professionals and professionalism
On March 19, 2019, I sat in the audience of the scientific sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery...
APDVS responds to #Medbikini, re-avows commitment to diverse workforce
Vascular surgery took the national stage during the last week of July as outraged medical professionals across the country responded to a visual abstract...
SVS president, JVS editors respond to controversial paper furor
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) president Ronald L. Dalman, MD, has pledged that the SVS and its flagship title the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS)...
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...
Outgoing SVS president outlines state of Society diversity
Outgoing Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) president Kim Hodgson, MD, delivered a data-driven insight into diversity within the organization during his June 20 State...
SVS in transition: A look back, a look ahead
Each Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) president wishes for a memorable annual meeting, outgoing SVS president Kim Hodgson, MD, noted during his State of...