Registration to open for VAM 2021

May 06, 2021 Re-posted from the May 2021 issue of Vascular Specialist

By Beth Bales

Registration and housing are set to open in mid-May for the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), which takes place Aug. 18–21 in San Diego.

Educational programming is ready to run across all four days, with exhibits open Thursday and Friday.

The meeting will be subject to safety and health protocols likely to change between now and August.

With the 2020 meeting canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, SVS leaders hope all those members not subject to ongoing institutional travel bans will attend.

“We know from talking to our members that they deeply miss the energy, enthusiasm and camaraderie that are part of live meetings,” said SVS Program Committee co-chair Matthew Eagleton, MD. The Program Committee—with Andres Schanzer, MD, as fellow co-chair—oversees the educational programming presented at VAM.

“We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to San Diego, talking with friends and colleagues, and enjoying the program we have spent months putting together.”

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