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Coming up: VRIC and VAM 2021 submission portals set to open
Abstracts for next year’s Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) will be accepted beginning Nov. 3. VRIC 2021 is held the day before and in the same location as the American Heart Association’s “Vascular Discovery” scientific sessions. The meeting date and…
SVS: Building bridges between twin tracks of academic and private practice
For Laurel Hadley Hastings, MD, membership in the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) provides a great collection of valuable benefits. They include an ongoing connection to academia and research, potential mentoring, interacting and working with more experienced surgeons and with…
President Dalman: SVS Appointments Committee confidential
The success of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) in its many missions is driven by the passion and commitment of its members. Each year, the Appointments Committee seeks to fill committee and council positions with member volunteers who have…
VAM 2021 to celebrate 75th anniversary of SVS
The 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting—to be held June 2 to 5, 2021 in San Diego—will be a celebration as well as an educational and networking event, as members break out the party hats and noisemakers to mark the 75th anniversary…
SVS ONLINE 2020 meeting returns in series of recordings
Time marches on. Time heals all wounds. If I could turn back time. All of these may be true—but in the case of the SVS ONLINE virtual meeting, people can turn back time, in a fashion. Registrants certainly can go…
September slate of regional vascular meetings goes digital
This time last year, the ranks of vascular surgery were gearing up to head for points East, West, Midwest and Northeast as the slew of key regional meetings that take place in the early fall entered their viewfield. But like…
Students/residents: Free webinars and virtual program directory available
In early June, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Resident and Student Outreach Committee held the SVS Pathways to Vascular Surgery Practice 2020: “Planning Your Career in Vascular Surgery Practice” webinars. This program was developed specifically for general surgery residents…
Black patients in areas with lowest PAD rates disproportionally at higher risk for amputation
It’s among the most topical areas of discussion in current U.S. cultural life: Black people face disparities in terms of healthcare outcomes. And the recently concluded SVS ONLINE digital conference produced fresh research in the affirmative. Data presented during Scientific…
Counting down till July 15 CME deadline
The SVS ONLINE conference may be firmly fixed in the rearview mirror but attendees are now staring down the barrel of the deadline for Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) self-assessment credits obtained through participation in the…
SVS ONLINE: A meeting of firsts
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) notched up plenty of firsts this year with its virtual meeting, SVS ONLINE: “New Advances and Discoveries in Vascular Surgery.” These include the mere presentation of the first virtual meeting, of course, said Matthew…