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Shaping the vascular workforce of tomorrow
“I have been a staunch supporter of thinking ambitiously about how we maintain what should be a viable and thriving workforce that doesn’t just address capacity of surgical support but also training for what our patients need — not just our patients of today, but our patients 20 and 30 years from now,” said Dawn Coleman,…
‘What I talk about when I talk about value’
Outgoing Western Vascular Society (WVS) President Ahmed Abou-Zamzam Jr., MD, provided a possible prescription for value in vascular surgery that goes beyond the monetary value assigned to the profession. Using the memoir of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, What I Talk…
‘Why vascular?’: Grappling with the vascular workforce challenges of the future
It’s one of the enduring reasons given cross-generationally in answer to the question, “Why vascular?” It goes something along the lines of, “I value that vascular surgeons have longitudinal relationships with their patients.” That was the message from Jessica Simons,…
A call for call pay
Medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, makes the case for surgeon call pay, a remuneration he says should be understood more as compensation than reimbursement. The strongest desire of my early youth was to attain an Atari 2600TM video game…
Unionization for vascular surgeons: Are you ready to join?
Vascular Specialist readers may wonder why I am now raising this topic amid current challenges facing vascular surgery, like governmental concerns, low reimbursement, specialty competition, the involvement of advanced practice providers without direct affiliation with vascular surgeons, and discussions regarding…
SVS president calls time on disengagement and disunity: ‘It’s time for a change’
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 find common ground across a fragmented membership, and time for leaders who are willing to engage…
Presenting a united front to address vascular surgery’s structural and financial challenges
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 Keith Calligaro, MD, said in summing up this year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum at…
Next gen: Pair of sessions tailored for medical students lay out keys to the specialty
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 for their level of training. On Thursday, June 5, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) will…
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 Morial Convention Center’s First Floor (Great Hall A) seeks to address some of the structural and…
Taking the lead: The vascular surgeon in the pediatric vascular surgical space
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 under our purview,” says Dawn Coleman, MD, a leading voice in the vascular surgical care of…