Tag: Vascular surgery
Latest iteration of SVS program seeks to help foster development of...
As the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) prepares to launch its fifth cohort of the Leadership Development Program (LDP), anticipation is high among aspiring...
Physician-assembled unitary stent graft platform for debranched TAAA repair found safe...
Researchers behind a seven-year retrospective analysis of a physician-developed unitary stent graft system for endovascular debranched aortic repair of various thoracoabdominal aortopathies reported a...
How intersociety collaboration to promote private practice could help vascular surgery...
Dawn M. Coleman, MD, chief of vascular surgery at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, focused on the likely major...
Bad reading: How to claw back negative revenue?
Five frequently performed vascular surgeries at a prominent New Orleans-based health system between 2019 and 2022 yielded an average yearly decrease in net revenue...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of February 2024
In February, the most read stories from Vascular Specialist include a study of metformin and its potential as the first-ever medical treatment that can...
“Where are you from? Where are you really from?”
Vascular resident Saranya Sundaram, MD, shares a story of finding cultural understanding and community.
“It’s Sundaram, S-U-N…” I’m interrupted by a nurse asking me if...
Redemption through perseverance
In the late 1970s, a neurosurgeon at New York’s St. Luke’s Hospital operated on a beautiful, young, rising soprano who studied opera at a...
Change: A driving force behind SVS advocacy initiatives
Change is a constant in life, and advocacy is no exception. The healthcare landscape is always evolving, and the SVS Advocacy Council is working...
Women’s champion: Freischlag marks out value of diversity and surgeons as...
Julie A. Freischlag, MD, used her turn as honorary guest lecturer at the 2023 Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) annual meeting to make a...
Advocacy exists to serve: Surgeons, patients and our mission
One of the most gratifying aspects of working to advocate for surgeons is that, at its heart, this is completely transparent and is done...
VAM 2023: ‘What I wish I knew before retirement’ talk gives...
Reflecting on the positives and negatives of retirement, Peter Gloviczki, MD, from the Mayo Clinic, previously in Rochester, Minnesota, now in Scottsdale, Arizona, and...
Integrated vascular surgery program features may optimize trainee wellness and decrease...
Today’s program at the 2023 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) will feature the presentation of an abstract by R. Debbie Li, MD, Loyola University Medical...
Letter to the editor: The virtue of a social media presence...
Dear editor,
I recently read an article in Vascular Specialist regarding the new age of the “vascular surgery influencer” that discussed how the world of...
Likes, dislikes and reposts: The new age of the vascular surgery...
The brave new world of social media, with its TikToks and Kardashians, has now invaded our once-sane specialty. No, this is not a veiled...
New Government Grand Rounds series highlights how perspective matters in advocacy
Matthew Sideman, MD, and Megan Marcinko, MPS, unveil new advocacy column aimed at drilling into the actions of Congress, and how they impact vascular...
In memoriam: Aspiring vascular surgeon Noor Gul Shah, 29
Noor Gul Shah, MD, who passed away in October last year aged 29, was a remarkable fourth-year resident in general surgery at NYU Langone...
SVS launches vascular branding toolkit
"Surgery is only part of our story." Or as SVS Public and Professional Outreach Committee chair Joseph Mills, MD, recently put it in a recent...
‘I cannot remove my black skin’: Perspective of a vascular surgery...
For each of the past 10 days, I’ve woken up and asked myself the same questions: Do I matter? Does my life have as...
Virtual catch-up: Vascular surgery and coming around to telemedicine
Remote treatment of patients, so-called telemedicine, has been around since the 1940s, when it was first used for transmission of radiology images. In later...
Medical care in time of coronavirus: Handling patients without COVID-19
The patient was thin, pale and clearly frightened, although he tried not to show it. With poor English skills, he patiently sat on the...
Dispatches from the vascular front: Early steps beyond COVID-19 peak in...
If Seattle and the broader state of Washington provided the vascular care blueprint for how to proceed once the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread...
COVID-19: Pandemic lessons for vascular care from military theater
An exemplar of how surgery can best perform its role amid a catastrophic event like the COVID-19 pandemic can be found in military medicine’s...
Dispatches from the vascular front: A view of COVID-19’s impact on...
Sharif Ellozy, MD, has had just about as near to a front row seat as it gets to the part of the United States...
New COVID-19-focused vascular registry gains IRB approval
A new vascular surgery registry launched to leverage key data gathered in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic—and aimed at helping prepare for the...
Leadership figures ruminate on redeployment of vascular surgeons as COVID-19 surges
It's an issue increasingly knocking on the door of program directors and section chiefs in hospitals across the country as COVID-19 cases escalate in...
Vascular surgeons discuss COVID-19 impact on pregnancy, family, career
The devastating effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic are multifarious and far-reaching, touching both life and limb themselves as well as less tangible aspects...
Call for older physicians to be protected from COVID-19
Hospitals and government health departments should give careful consideration to the protection of older physicians and nurses in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Future is now: Surgical simulation utilizing 3D printing has potential to...
HOUSTON—The picture as Jonathan Stone, MD, describes it couldn’t be more stark. Medical error, according to recent publications, he says, now sits at third...
COVID-19 special: How to be a doctor at the end of...
Vascular Specialist medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, is no stranger to national and international emergencies—from New York City during both the 1990s AIDS...
Prominent Seattle hospital issues COVID-19 clinical practice guidelines for vascular surgery
A prominent hospital operating on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington state has released a set of clinical practice guidelines for vascular...
Physician-developed respirator device offers one possible solution to PPE shortages
Surgeons and other healthcare professionals aren’t hanging around waiting for depleted personal protective equipment (PPE) to be replenished. Amid COVID-19-related shortages, ingenuity, creativity and...
American College of Surgeons releases new clinical guidance document for elective...
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has issued guidance for surgeons to curtail recommendations for elective surgical procedures to preserve the necessary resources for...
Letter from Seattle: Amid COVID-19 pandemic, time to act is long...
SEATTLE—We live in unprecedented times. On Jan. 19, patient zero arrived in the United States at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after returning from a visit...