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Clyde Barker, pioneering vascular surgeon and Penn Medicine titan, dies
Clyde F. Barker, MD, a towering figure in American surgery and a transformative leader at Penn Medicine, died peacefully at his home on Oct. 2, surrounded by family. He was 91. “So ended an era,” said Ronald DeMatteo, MD, chair…
Multidisciplinary approach to diabetic foot ulcers in rural America leads to NIH grant
Samantha Minc, MD, MPH, associate professor of surgery at Duke University, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R03 grant to support her research project, “Understanding diabetes and peripheral arterial disease [PAD]-related amputation in North Carolina.” The R03…
‘Choosing the right devices for the right patients’: Surgeon-scientist secures NIH funding to develop MRI technique for precision PAD care
Michael Conte, MD, recently used his 2024 Veith Lecture to call on young vascular surgeons on the peripheral arterial disease (PAD) frontlines to drive the space forward amid a great unmet need. The professor and chief of vascular and endovascular…
Increasing access and decreasing scientific bias: How open access is changing academic publishing
There has been much talk recently on open access publishing and the costs associated with this mode of publication. While editor-in-chief positions within most scientific journals are academic roles involved with the overall content published within journals and not the…
Could metformin be first-ever medical treatment that is effective at managing aneurysm disease?
There is a global interest in assessing whether metformin, which has a long track record of safety and efficacy, is relatively inexpensive and is taken by millions of people every day for type-2 diabetes, has an effect on the progression…
Newest JVS peer-review title appoints editor-in-chief
The Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) has announced the appointment of Anahita Dua, MD, as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vascular Surgery-Vascular Insights (JVS-VI), the newest title in the JVS stable. Dua, an SVS member, is an associate professor…
Former SVS President William Abbott, 1997–98, dies at 86
William Martin Abbott, MD, former president of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), died peacefully in his home Jan. 9 after a brief illness. He was 86. Abbott grew up in San Francisco and graduated from Stanford University and Stanford…
RESCUE trial shows reduction in segmental and main pulmonary artery occlusions
Robert A. Lookstein, MD, who is executive vice chair, Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York today presented the results of a subanalysis of Thrombolex’s National Heart, Lung and…
NIH funding for vascular surgeon-scientists: ‘We need more funded vascular surgeons and better coverage of SVS priorities’
Presenting at the 2023 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) annual meeting in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, Amin A. Mirzaie—a pre-medical student at Emory University in Atlanta—offered observations on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) “modestly” aligned vascular surgical funding…
New project will develop nanoparticles with imaging and medicine-delivery capabilities to better treat PAD
A University of Texas at Arlington bioengineer is leading a project to develop biodegradable nanomaterials that will take pictures and deliver medicine to combat peripheral arterial disease (PAD), the university announced in a press release. Kytai Nguyen, a UTA bioengineering…