‘Why vascular?’: Grappling with the vascular workforce challenges of the future

It’s one of the enduring reasons given cross-generationally in answer to the question, “Why vascular?” It goes something along the lines of, “I value that vascular surgeons have longitudinal relationships with their patients.” That was the message from Jessica Simons,…
‘The patient is there to see me and my face’: Making shared decision-making central to vascular care

Matthew Corriere, MD, believes a major shift is needed in how clinicians communicate and make decisions with their patients. During the 2025 distinguished address given at the New England Society for Vascular Surgery (NESVS) annual meeting in Providence, Rhode Island…
Positive data show novel delayed-release diameter reduction technique in construction of PMEGs is viable

A novel physician-modified endograft (PMEG) technique for the treatment of thoracoabdominal and complex abdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAA and AAA) involving delayed-release diameter reduction to aortic size and shape—allowing for sequential target vessel cannulation—is safe and effective, according to a new…
NESVS 2025: Alik Farber takes over as New England Society for Vascular Surgery president

Alik Farber, MD, surgeon-in-chief at Boston Medical Center and James Utley professor and chair of surgery at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, is the new president of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery (NESVS). Farber took…

