Vascular Specialist–December 2020

In this issue:

• OBL: Community surgeons talk through surviving private practice in office-based labs (p. 1 and 4)
• "Present imperfect": Vascular Specialist medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, discusses coping with loss amid the pandemic after the recent passing of his father (p .2)
• Interview: SVS president Ronald L. Dalman, MD, recalls a year of adversity and change, including such issues as COVID-19, VAM and diversity (p. 3)
• Conference report: Study finds active stent-graft fixation below the renal arteries may have least effect on aortic neck degeneration (p. 7)
• SVS member and former president Robert M. Zwolak, MD, named to AMA RUC (p. 11)
• Cleveland Clinic researchers produce findings that support SVS practice guidelines for ultrasound surveillance of small AAAs (p. 19)