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Articles about the Society for Vascular Surgery.
July 24, 2018 • Article
The national shortage of vascular surgeons
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum addressed the current status of the vascular surgery workforce, its existing geographic distribution, the potential for a worsening shortage, and proposed solutions to ensure future vascular care delivery.
July 24, 2018 • Article
SVS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Dr. Gregorio Sicard, a ‘Surgeon’s Surgeon’
Back at the dawn of the endovascular revolution, many other surgical specialties were vying to dominate minimally invasive endovascular procedures. Vascular surgery, the standard bearer of open vascular surgery, could have gone the way of buggy whips. But this year’s Lifetime Achievement Awardee, Dr. Gregorio Sicard, was one of a dedicated group of vascular surgeon leaders who kept that from happening.
July 24, 2018 • Article
Saving the Community’s Health, One Project at a Time
A handful of SVS members will soon begin implementing projects to improve community health in three areas throughout the United States. The plans are the result of the new SVS Foundation Community Awareness and Prevention Project Grants. The first recipients were announced during the SVS Vascular Annual Meeting in June.
July 24, 2018 • Article
Members Asked to Complete New Survey on Burnout
Leaders of the SVS Wellness Task Force urge all SVS members to complete a new survey on physician burnout, this one aimed at physical debility. The burnout survey is in an email from the Mayo Clinic, which is assisting with distribution and tabulation. It is the second survey the task force has distributed, all aimed at ascertaining burnout and wellness statistics from SVS members. “We need evidence,” said Malachi Sheahan, MD, who is vice chair of the group with Dawn Coleman, MD. As chair. “We can’t make change without evidence.”
June 26, 2018 • Article
Guideline for Follow-up Imaging Unveiled
The Society for Vascular Surgery now has a clinical practice guideline devoted solely to imaging following vascular surgery interventions.
