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Missing your journals? Be sure your dues are paid
Have you paid your 2021 Society for Vascular Surgery dues? If you haven’t, you’re missing access to all of the latest research in the Journal of Vascular Surgery publications. And that’s not all. SVS membership confers an array of benefits.…
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 posted on Twitter which highlighted a study recently published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS).…
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 remains nimble in face of spreading pandemic, pivots to member priorities
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) started 2020 with plans intensifying for the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) in May, the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in June, the launch of the branding initiative, along with a host of other SVS…
COVID-19: Socially distant yet never closer
We certainly live in interesting times—times in which social distancing has literally become the new normal. COVID-19 came to the United States quietly and then hit like a brick, creating a national emergency. It is almost difficult to remember what…
Vascular surgeons will survive these ‘troubled waters,’ says SVS president
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is a “solidly built bridge” across the troubled waters of the coronavirus pandemic, president Kim Hodgson, MD, today proclaimed. The path to the other side of the current COVID-19 crisis may not be clear…
Your SVS: Storming into 2020 and horizons beyond
With significant progress made on many fronts in 2019, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is looking forward to the next horizon in 2020. In late January, I updated the Strategic Board of Directors on progress to date on strategic…
Vascular surgeons encouraged to participate in Mentor Match Program
An American politician from the 1800s named John C. Crosby once said, “Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen and a push in the right direction.” Currently, there are nearly 150 medical students and general surgery residents…
Enroll in Mentor Match Program on SVSConnect
An easy way to impact the future of the vascular specialty is to sign up as a mentor on SVSConnect. The Mentor Match Program needs more surgeons to act as mentors to medical students and general surgery residents. The program…