2024 Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC)

Overview

The Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) emphasizes the exchange of basic and translational vascular science that stimulates thoughtful discussion and motivates participants to discover solutions to important problems affecting vascular patients. The VRIC brings together vascular surgeons, vascular biologists, physicians with an interest in vascular problems, vascular surgery trainees and research trainees in vascular surgery and vascular biology.

The VRIC will be held in conjunction with the American Heart Association's Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine Scientific Sessions, also held at the Hilton Chicago (May 15–18, 2024). The SVS has teamed up with AHA to offer these two exclusive meetings in the same location and timeframe to help save attendees on travel costs; however, please note the VRIC and Vascular Discovery are two separate conferences with separate registration fees.

The theme for VRIC24 is Immune and Structural Cells in Cardiovascular Disease. 

New and evolving topics may be discussed, debated, and explored during VRIC. Planners and faculty must facilitate engagement with these topics without advocating for or promoting practices that are not or not yet adequately based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning.

As a condition of its ACCME Accreditation, SVS’s CE activities will not advocate for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or promote recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.

Registration

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Registration questions or need to cancel? Email meetings@vascularsociety.org. Registration refund requests must be received by email by April 22. All cancellations will be processed after VRIC. You will need to check with your hotel regarding their cancellation policy.  

VRIC 2024 Premier Speakers

Alexander W. Clowes Distinguished Lecture The lecture is named for the late SVS member Alec Clowes, a renowned mentor and surgeon-scientist who demonstrated an exceptional commitment to research in vascular disease and played a critical role in VRIC.	Filip Swirski, PhD Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute The Arthur and Janet C. Ross Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Professor of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Translational Panel	Kathryn J. Moore, PhD, Jean and David Blechman Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine Professor, Department of Cell Biology New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Translational Panel	Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD President George H.W. Bush Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine Director, Division of Medical Genetics  Vice-Chair, Department of Internal Medicine University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School

Attendee Housing 

Attendees can now make online reservations at the Hilton Chicago through AHA’s Vascular Discovery Conference housing portal by clicking here. If booking by phone, you must mention you are booking as part of AHA’s Vascular Discovery room block to get the discounted rate. The $279 + taxes/fees discounted rate is available on a first-come, first-served basis through April 19.

Hilton Chicago

720 South Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL 60605

Questions? 

Email the SVS Education Department.