
The final day of the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in New Orleans honored three winners in the championship round of the SVS Poster Competition. The audience voted to select the winners from more than 100 entries highlighting innovative research.
Hassan Chamseddine, MD, took first place and a $1,500 prize for “Time is intestine: The impact of timely intervention on acute mesenteric ischemia outcomes.”
Ben Li, MD, earned second place with a $1,000 prize for “Predicting one-year successful clinical use of an arteriovenous access for hemodialysis using machine learning.”
And Samantha Fountain, MD, was awarded third place and a $500 prize for “Racial disparities in cardiac risk index calculators for vascular surgery complication rates.”














