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Summit dedicated to tackling key issues related to women’s vascular health and female workforce seeks to ‘enable and empower’
Linda Harris, MD, is a prolific attendee on the national and regional vascular meeting circuit, a noteworthy academic vascular surgeon with trainees and papers on the scientific session plate, and a curious questioner of new research offered up from the…
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of September 2022
September’s top stories featured news of a trial to evaluate women’s experience of early endovascular aneurysm repair, and of a special women-focused edition of the Annals of Vascular Surgery. A guest commentary on the importance of advocacy in vascular surgery…
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist items of June 2022
June’s top stories spanned a range of presentations from the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston (June 15–18), covering topics including burnout among vascular surgeons, amputation rates in Black and Hispanic CLTI patients, and VAM’s inaugural Women’s Section education…
Talking about women surgeons’ lives and careers
Women—and more than a few men—flocked to the inaugural Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) education session of the Society for Vascular Surgery’s new Women’s Section yesterday. The topics of “Supporting Women Vascular Surgeons—From Recruitment through Senior Leadership” reflected the name with…
SVS creates membership section for women
Women make up a growing percentage of vascular surgeons. And they now have a new professional membership home within the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)—the SVS Women’s Section. SVS leadership approved the new membership section in 2021. It is intended…