Roy M. Fujitani, MD, president of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Medical Center medical staff, took over as Western Vascular Society (WVS) president at the conclusion of the WVS annual meeting recently held in Koloa, Hawaii (Sept. 9–12).
He accepted the mantle from outgoing WVS President Wei Zhou, MD, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Zhou delivered her presidential address on the on the importance of tolerance in vascular surgery in order for the profession to thrive.
