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‘The leader must own everything in his or her world, own every mistake and credit the team for successes’
“We can almost be considered a specialty of colonizers, acquiring borrowed techniques. Why, then, do we see ourselves as the keepers of vascular care? Why do we think that we are the ones that can deliver the best vascular care?…
So you want to marry a surgeon?
In the second of a two-part series of editorials, Vascular Specialist Medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, offers further insight into the world of surgeon-surgeon marriages with a little help from a few friends. Welcome to the first Vascular Specialist…
The Japanese concept of ikigai and how mentorship might help specialty amid challenges of vascular surgery workforce shortage
The Japanese concept of ikigai, or an individual’s reason for being, underpinned the message behind a fresh call for mentorship in vascular surgery and how mentoring could aid efforts to plug a shortage in the specialty’s workforce. Roy M. Fujitani,…
Who harmed who?
In his address at the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), Society for Vascular Surgery Immediate Past President Joseph Mills, MD, eloquently stated—and please excuse the paraphrase Dr. Mills—that we as a specialty need to come together and become cohesive, as…
‘Investing in the people of vascular surgery’
Outgoing Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) President Bernadette Aulivola, MD, underscored the importance of “investing in the people of vascular surgery—those learning about it and those progressing through their careers”—for the future of the specialty. At the heart of this…
A team sport: A prescription for the future of vascular surgery
Outgoing Eastern Vascular Society (EVS) President Kathleen Ozsvath, MD, used her presidential swansong to address the needs of those practicing the specialty moving forward, combining themes of family, collaboration, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Ozsvath, who serves as chief of…
Twin global burdens of growing PAD prevalence and vascular workforce shortfall demand action, WFVS session hears
A growing prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) across the world parallels a deteriorating PAD landscape in the U.S., underscoring a need for more vascular surgeons and risk-factor reduction globally, according to a leading expert in the field. Vincent Rowe,…
SVS makes fresh call for active participation in compensation survey
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has made a fresh call for members to participate in a compensation survey, a collaboration with Phairify, that aims to provide vascular surgeons with tailored insights into compensation, practice and productivity data relevant to…
SVS urges members to take part in compensation survey—and bolster results
Organizers behind an SVS-commissioned financial compensation survey are calling on more members to fill out the short list of questions so that they can break a key 20% response-rate target and begin to publish data gleaned from participants. Any member…
Crawford panel looks at opportunities to plug and extend vascular surgery workforce pipeline
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum zeroed in on the pipeline of sources feeding the vascular surgery ranks. Incoming SVS President Joseph Mills, MD, assembled an expert panel to look at many of the key issues at the…