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 across specialty lines without compromising vascular surgery’s core values. That was the word from outgoing Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Matthew Eagleton, MD, at the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM; June 4–7) in New Orleans, during in his presidential address.
“Vascular surgery is proud of our growth and our expanding heterogeneity, yet we also suffer from it. […] Our biggest internal challenge right now is fragmentation and disunity. And it’s been a problem growing over the past several years. […] We’re not just disagreeing—we’re disengaging. And that weakens us. It weakens our credibility. It weakens our voice,” he said during the address.
“[…] So, one of the things I’m asking for, and one of the things that prior presidents have asked for, is for our groups, despite their differences, to come together so we can represent a unified voice in the world of medicine,” Eagleton tells Vascular Specialist.
