Tag: Vascular Annual Meeting
SVS highlights landmark paper on functional popliteal artery entrapment syndrome
The Society for Vascular Surgery has highlighted findings from a comprehensive 20-year clinical study that demonstrate treatment of functional popliteal artery entrapment syndrome—particularly in...
‘Parenthood in vascular surgery a personal choice, not a professional deadline’
When is the right time to start a family in vascular surgery? That was a core question posed during the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting...
New SVS president seeks to enhance communication with members, tighten focus...
With another Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in the books, that means the flag unfurls on a new presidential year. And that means Philadelphia-based vascular...
SVS launches partnership to help private practice vascular surgeons cut costs
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has announced a new partnership with group purchasing organization (GPO) Provista in an effort to help provide...
Vascular Specialist–July 2025
In this issue:
Vascular unity: ‘Let’s stop standing on the sidelines while others define what vascular care looks like’
Vascular surgery history: Putting...
SVS president calls time on disengagement and disunity: ‘It’s time for...
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...
Vascular surgery history: Putting specialty on the map in a broader...
The people, discoveries, innovations and events that brought the vascular surgery profession to where it is today formed the bedrock of the subject matter...
Researchers examine safety of prophylactic spinal fluid drainage in open and...
“Spinal fluid drainage be considered when the risk of spinal cord injury from the procedure is greater than the risk of severe complications from...
Novel MRI technique for CLTI poised to address ‘medieval problem in...
“We want to change global standards. What we’re doing isn’t working. Patients are getting hurt and devices are failing—we want to be able to...
Presenting a united front to address vascular surgery’s structural and financial...
Vascular surgeons must present a unified front in order to address structural and financial challenges facing the specialty, Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President-Elect...
Three honored in VAM 2025 Poster Competition
The final day of the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in New Orleans honored three winners in the championship round of the SVS Poster...
Claim CME credits from 2025 vascular meetings
Attendees of the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) Annual Meeting, and Society of Vascular Nursing (SVN) Annual Conference are reminded...
Award-winning basic science research targets ‘highly complex’ process of vascular calcification
“We were really excited to know that the SVS is supporting our research,” Sujin Lee, MD, told Vascular Specialist on receiving the SVS Foundation...
Increased experience with off-the-shelf TAAA endograft sees reduction in complications but...
Michele Piazza, MD, informed attendees of the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) that increased experience with the E-nside (Artivion) off-the-shelf preloaded inner branch endograft for...
VAM 2025: Crawford Forum probes four reasonable strategies to empower vascular...
“Go back home and get a vascular center or get a vascular department, or, you know, assess the compensation results and, at...
SVS announces election results for new leadership
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has elected Andres Schanzer, MD, as the incoming vice president and Malachi G. Sheahan III, MD, as the...
The people and devices that put ‘the vascular in vascular’
The people, discoveries, innovations and events that brought the vascular surgery profession to where it is today will form the subject matter for this...
Vascular surgery maintains popularity, becomes ‘more competitive’ after switch to virtual...
A study aimed at assessing the impact of a pandemic-related switch to virtual recruitment from in-person interviews on the Match for vascular surgery residents...
International Chapter highlights pressing need to document PAD and CLTI prevalence...
There is an urgent need for epidemiological studies to map out the prevalence of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI)—and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in general—in...
Vote for your favorite projects at the Poster Competition
Don't miss the chance to witness the creativity and hard work of the Poster Competition participants as they compete for top honors, taking place...
Acellular tissue engineered vessel outperforms AVF in high-risk hemodialysis patients
Results from the CLN-PRO-V007 randomized controlled trial of Humacyte’s acellular tissue engineered vessel (ATEV) are set to be shared today during VAM 2025 Plenary...
Impact report finds no major change in balance between CAS and...
An evaluation of trends in the utilization of carotid artery stenting (CAS) versus carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has found there to be “no major change”...
Transcatheter arterialization of the deep veins: Comparative analysis probes whether emerging...
“We're living in a new world order” when it comes to “no-option” chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) patients, says Anahita Dua, MD. In recent years,...
Vascular Specialist@VAM Conference Edition 2
In this issue:
One-year TAMBE data highlight low mortality, importance of renal branch assessment
Transcatheter arterialization of the deep veins: Comparative analysis probes...
Training smarter, not harder: Analysis finds no negative impact of reduced...
Since the 2018 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) reduction of core surgical requirements from 24 to 18 months during integrated vascular surgery...
Register for the Women’s Networking Event
Join your colleagues for engaging Women’s Networking Event on Thursday evening at 7 p.m. at the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in New Orleans...
Explore the future of vascular surgery at Touchpoint@VAM
Today, 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) attendees are encouraged to engage in an eye-opening experience at Touchpoint@VAM for an interactive event that will showcase...
Next gen: Pair of sessions tailored for medical students lay out...
Medical students attending the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) will have two unique opportunities to deepen their understanding of vascular surgery through sessions designed specifically...
First-in-man results to show promise for robot-assisted HIFU in PAD treatment
Results of a first-in-human study of non-invasive, robotic-assisted high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for the treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), to be presented...
VQI LEAF surveillance protocol set to be unveiled during VQI@VAM
Philip P. Goodney, MD, is unveiling a pivotal monitoring tool during the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) Annual Meeting, VQI@VAM, today—the Long-Term EVAR Assessment and...
A message from the SVS president
As we come together for VAM 2025, I want to take a moment to reflect on the remarkable progress we’ve made over the past...
Crawford Forum: Empowering vascular surgeons
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum at the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in New Orleans, from 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m., on the...
A New Orleanian’s guide to New Orleans
Welcome! Our city is humid, crumbling and vaguely supernatural. Make the right choices and you will never forget your time here. Double that if...
Vascular Specialist–June 2025
In this issue:
Helping OBL vascular surgeons fight the squeeze
‘Rise together’: Harris urges unity in Women’s Vascular Summit presidential address
Senior surgeons:...
Vascular Quality Initiative to host annual meeting at VAM 2025
The Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI), in collaboration with the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), will convene its ninth annual conference (June 3–4) during this...
Taking the lead: The vascular surgeon in the pediatric vascular surgical...
It’s a bit like realigning the narrative, ever so slightly. “I want us to feel, as a collective specialty, that pediatric vascular care falls...
Helping OBL vascular surgeons fight the squeeze
SVS Section on Ambulatory Vascular Care (SAVC) set to announce set of new initiatives designed to help office-based lab (OBL) vascular surgeons combat rising...
SVS releases updated guidelines for intermittent claudication
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has issued a comprehensive update to its clinical practice guidelines for the management of intermittent claudication, urging clinicians...
From Olympic triumph to healthcare advocacy: Jim Craig to deliver VAM...
Jim Craig, a longtime support and vascular advocate, will deliver the annual keynote address at the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in New Orleans...
SVS International Committee’s 2025 scholars named
The SVS International Relations Committee (IRC) has announced the recipients of the 2025 International Scholars Program, recognizing the achievements of three distinguished professionals: Sohei...
Search for new JVS editor-in-chief has commenced
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has launched a search for a new editor-in-chief (EIC) for its flagship publication, the Journal of Vascular Surgery...
SVS prepares to educate latest group of vascular leaders
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has launched registration for the sixth cohort of its Leadership Development Program (LDP). The curriculum is drawn from...
SVS, medical organizations launch comprehensive Wound Care Curriculum
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), in collaboration with the Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) and the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA), has designed...
Corner Stitch: Becoming a community-engaged vascular surgeon
At the end of my intern year, I was tired. It had been a long year of rounding, placing orders, seeing consults and refining...
VAM 2025 registration launches
Registration for the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM 2025) is now open. This year’s meeting will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4–7.
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Applications open for 2025 James S.T. Yao Resident Research Award
The SVS Foundation is accepting applications for the 2025 James S.T. Yao Resident Research Award, which supports emerging medical professionals researching vascular disease biology...
Education and representation at core of inclusivity efforts for DEI committee
The SVS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee continues to make strides in advancing inclusivity within the organization, with several projects underway to address...
VAM 2025 abstract submission period set to open Nov. 6
Vascular surgeon-scientists may submit their research for presentation at the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in June starting from Nov. 6 through Wednesday, Jan....
SVS launches VascuLEARN
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) online learning management system (LMS), now known as SVS VascuLEARN. The platform was formerly called SVS OnDemand. VascuLEARN...
Survey of off-label treatment of complex repair pinpoints factors behind underreported...
The potential for cost and time to be key factors in low levels of outcomes data reporting emerged during a national survey of the...
One-year STRIDE study data show ‘meaningful’ limb salvage, mortality and QoL...
One-year outcomes from the STRIDE study of the Indigo aspiration thrombectomy system (Penumbra) for lower-extremity acute limb ischemia (ALI) showed target limb salvage and...
VAM 2024: Paper exploring stroke rates in arch TEVAR emerges as...
The 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Chicago showcased emerging talent in vascular surgery through a moderated Poster Competition held over two days of...
Patient selection may explain ‘counterintuitive’ relationship between carotid stenting volume and...
High stroke and death rates relating to carotid stenting in the Pacific Northwest may be driven by the selection of high-risk patients with less...
TCAR and endarterectomy both ‘reasonable’ but stenting linked to worse outcomes...
A study examining outcomes between different carotid revascularisation procedures has concluded that transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA) both represent a “reasonable choice” in severe chronic...
Linda Harris elected SVS vice president
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has announced Linda Harris, MD, as its next vice president, meaning that she enters the presidential line and...
Young vascular surgeons on the PAD frontier: ‘This is the time...
Huge opportunities abound for vascular surgeons to take a leadership role on the frontlines of a developing peripheral arterial disease (PAD) treatment crisis in...
‘We are in this together’: SVS president set to issue call...
SVS President Joseph Mills, MD, is set to issue a rallying call steeped in classical history and decades of collected vascular surgery wisdom in...
Early vascular evaluation can ‘significantly supplement’ wound healing and limit resource...
“Our findings ultimately suggest that vascular evaluation within six weeks of wound appearance can significantly supplement wound healing in wound centers,” said Saranya Sundaram,...
Chickasaw Nation study exemplifies how diversity can boost patient access to...
A “feasible and reproducible” intervention bundle characterized by surveys, provider education and patient screening has demonstrated the potential to not only identify gaps in...
Vascular Specialist@VAM Conference Edition 2
In this issue:
Attendees welcomed to ‘more inclusive, more innovative, and more educational’ VAM
Endovascular CFA treatment associated with increased rate of long-term...
TCAR and endarterectomy both ‘reasonable’ but stenting linked to worse outcomes...
A study examining outcomes between different carotid revascularization procedures has concluded that transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA) both represent a “reasonable...
Patient selection may explain ‘counterintuitive’ relationship between carotid stenting volume and...
High stroke and death rates relating to carotid stenting in the Pacific Northwest may be driven by the selection of high-risk patients with less...
VAM 2024: Putting out the fires of intraoperative vascular emergencies
A 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM 2024) Education Session taking place on Wednesday, June 19 (3:15–4:45 p.m. in the West Building, Level 1) will...
Drilling down on the roots of pathologic inflammation and wound healing...
This year’s James S. T. Yao Resident Research Award winner looks at novel therapeutic target for non-healing diabetic wounds. Kevin D. Mangum, MD, PhD,...
Pediatric vascular care in focus: Raising awareness of supportive care processes
In 2021, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) established a task force dedicated to optimizing pediatric vascular...
Pushing the boundaries of vascular care: VQI meeting kicks off at...
The Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) is hosting its two-day annual conference at the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM 2024) from June 18–19, drawing healthcare...
VAM 2024: Presidential welcome
It is with great excitement and anticipation that I welcome you to the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), taking place from June 19–22 in the...
CEA vs TCAR: Surgeons should be familiar with both procedures and...
When it comes to the ongoing debate of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) versus transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) in the treatment of carotid artery stenosis, operators...
SVS announces VAM keynote speaker series
Registration for the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM 2024) launched on March 20 and promotions teased a new annual VAM fixture: the SVS Keynote...
VAM abstract submissions hit near-historic high
A nearly record-breaking 794 Abstracts were submitted for the SVS 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM 2024). The abstracts were scored by the VAM Program...
BEST-CLI investigators implore a move beyond endo vs. open ‘battle’ in...
The principal investigators behind the BEST-CLI trial struck a conciliatory tone during the inaugural Frank J. Veith Distinguished Lecture yesterday morning in which they...
Eagleton and Shutze: SVS members elect new vice president, secretary
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) announced that Matthew Eagleton, MD, has been elected as the organization's next vice president. The news was revealed...
Voting for SVS vice president, secretary begins May 23
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Active and Senior members will begin voting May 23 for a new SVS vice president and secretary for 2022–23....
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in January
January’s top 10 includes “Our forever plague,” a combined editorial by Malachi Sheahan III, MD, our medical editor, on fake news and science, and...
Mills becomes next SVS vice president
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) voting members have elected Joseph Mills, MD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, as their next vice...
Earn precious CMEs and MOCs at SVS ONLINE
Physician registrants: get a boost on collecting required continuing medical education (CME) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Self-Assessment credits during SVS ONLINE: “New Advances...
Official: SVS cancels VAM
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has officially pulled the plug on the 2020 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) scheduled to take place in Toronto...
Update on VAM 2020 issued by SVS
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has placed members on notice that the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) slated for June 17–20 in Toronto looks...