Tracci assumes presidency of Southern Vascular

Margaret (Megan) Tracci, MD, has become the first-ever woman president of the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS). The University of Virginia professor of surgery assumed the role at the close of the 2025 SAVS annual meeting in St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands (Jan. 22–25).

Tracci took over from Alan Lumsden, MD, medical director of Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center at Houston Methodist.

Mark Farber, MD, chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the new president-elect. Dennis Gable, MD, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at Baylor Scott & White, The Heart Hospital Baylor-Plano, Texas, became a councilor-at-large.