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‘We are all family’: Calligaro calls for unity and innovation during VAM presidential address
During his presidential address at VAM 2026, Keith Calligaro, MD, called on vascular surgeons to think beyond today’s clinical challenges and outlined a vision for the specialty built around unity, innovation, education and patient advocacy. Speaking before a record-breaking attendance…
Reclaiming joy and meaning in vascular practice
“When was the last time in surgery that you experienced joy,” asked Vincent Rowe, MD, during his presidential address at the 2026 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) Annual Symposium in San Diego, California (March 28-April 1). “Not just satisfaction,…
‘What I talk about when I talk about value’
Outgoing Western Vascular Society (WVS) President Ahmed Abou-Zamzam Jr., MD, provided a possible prescription for value in vascular surgery that goes beyond the monetary value assigned to the profession. Using the memoir of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, What I Talk…
‘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,…
‘Ask not what vascular surgery can do for you… ask what it can do to you’
During his own recent presidential address on home turf, Patrick Muck, MD, invoked immortable words from the inaugural address of President John F. Kennedy to make a very serious point about radiation safety in vascular care: “Ask not what vascular…
Eastern Vascular Society passes 1,000-member mark
It “takes village” to build a community like the one that the Eastern Vascular Society (EVS) has grown into, outgoing president Brajesh K. Lal, MD, told the EVS annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee (Sept. 4–7). Lal was delivering the 2025…
SVS president calls time on disengagement and disunity: ‘It’s time for a change’
Vascular surgeons should come together to present a unified voice in the world of medicine—it’s time for a change, to recommit, build bridges and find common ground across a fragmented membership, and time for leaders who are willing to engage…
‘Rise together’: Harris urges unity in Women’s Vascular Summit presidential address
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vice President Linda Harris, MD, extolled the values of “co-elevation” in her presidential address at the 7th annual Women’s Vascular Summit (May 2–3), invoking lessons on teamwork from the world of sport to argue that…
‘The leader must own everything in his or her world, own every mistake and credit the team for successes’
“We can almost be considered a specialty of colonizers, acquiring borrowed techniques. Why, then, do we see ourselves as the keepers of vascular care? Why do we think that we are the ones that can deliver the best vascular care?…
‘How to thrive, not just survive, as a vascular surgeon’
Outgoing Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) President Misty Humphries, MD, used her presidential address to outline how trainees and young vascular surgeons can “thrive and not just survive as a vascular surgeon.” The University of California, Davis interim chief…