Articles

June 10, 2019 • Article

Your Input Wanted on Branding Initiative

Respond to Survey by June 26 Vascular health is everything. Are vascular surgeons leaders? Partners? Or both? To position the Society for Vascular Surgery – and its members – for the future, the SVS is launching a multi-pronged branding initiative. And feedback from every SVS member is needed, wanted and welcomed.

June 10, 2019 • Article

Excellence in Community Service Awards

Giving back, every day: 3 surgeons win first-ever SVS Excellence in Community Service awards Three outstanding surgeons have been selected to receive the SVS’ first-ever Excellence in Community Service Awards. This prestigious annual award honors vascular surgeons who have been leaders in community service throughout their professional lives, who have gone far beyond the expectations for vascular surgeons, have had a strong civic presence and exhibited a lifetime of commitment to both vascular surgery and the community.

May 13, 2019 • Article

Leadership: Spotlight on Linda Harris, MD

On behalf of the Leadership Development and Diversity Committee This interview continues our series of conversations with national vascular surgery leaders based on topics from the Kouznes and Pozner book “The Truth About Leadership.” This column highlights the evidence-based behaviors regarding “Leadership is an Affair Of The Heart.”

May 13, 2019 • Article

Quality: New Global Guideline on CLTI Finalized, Will Be Published Soon in JVS

After four years of work and research, vascular experts from around the world have released a new, far-reaching global guideline on managing chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), a problem of increasing prevalence and higher health care costs world-wide. The Journal of Vascular Surgery is publishing the guideline, with 113 specific recommendations, as a supplement to the June edition. It is to available online before late May.

May 13, 2019 • Article

SVS Creates New Section for Outpatient Care

With an increasing number of procedures transitioning to office and outpatient settings, the Society for Vascular Surgery has created the new member Section on Outpatient and Office Vascular Care (SOOVC), specifically geared to clinicians who work in these environments. The SOOVC is designed to increase awareness, education and representation of the movement to outpatient and office-based settings.