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SVS issues statement abhorring injustice and violence amid unrest in US
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) today issued a joint statement in support of diversity as the U.S. continues to boil after African American man George Floyd died at the…
SVS acknowledges industry partners springing to aid of vascular community
It has recently come to the attention of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) that many of our industry partners are generously donating equipment and products to the vascular community during the COVID-19 pandemic. To shine a light on that…
SVS ONLINE: Virtual program and associated events take shape
Planning continues unabated for the highly anticipated SVS ONLINE, set to kick off June 20 and run through July 2 in lieu of the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), with registration opening June 1. Attendees can look forward to two Annual…
Coding event set to take place Sept. 25–26
Registration has opened for the 2020 iteration of the Society for Vascular Surgery’s Coding and Reimbursement Workshop scheduled to take place from Sept. 25–26. Though it remains scheduled as a live event at the Hyatt Rosemont Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois,…
Your SVS: Membership deadline is June 1
The next membership application deadline for 2020 is June 1. Be part of all SVS has to offer its members, including the online community SVSConnect, which has featured robust resources and conversations on COVID-19, plus free or reduced-rate subscriptions to…
SVS ONLINE: How VAM program was transformed for virtual alternative
How do you turn a live event for thousands of participants and exhibitors into a trimmed-down, online experience? Carefully, and not easily. “We got here because COVID-19 happened,” wryly observed Matthew Eagleton, MD, chair of the Society for Vascular Surgery…
SVS ONLINE: Carving out virtual version of VAM invited sessions amid COVID-19
As Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Postgraduate Education Committee chair Vikram Kashyap, MD, tells it, the organizers behind programming for the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) had never before been confronted with such a mammoth task. Like it did in all…
Med students: Q&A webinar on vascular specialty slated for May 13
An event aimed at attracting medical students to the vascular specialty has been organized by the Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS), the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS). The three…
Access JVS collection of papers on COVID-19
The editors of the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) group of publications have launched a freely available COVID-19 collection across the JVS family of websites. SVS members can access new papers regarding personal and institutional experiences during the pandemic, brief…
Telemedicine gets shot in arm from COVID-19
Unintended consequences of COVID-19 are likely to pop up in an untold number of ways. Perhaps one of them could be the more widespread use of telemedicine. That was one of the key messages delivered in the fourth of the…