SVS Foundation Awardees 2017
At the 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting (May 31-June 3), the SVS Foundation awarded a number of basic and clinical research grants.
Articles & Press Releases
Recent Articles
Services Let Members be Doctors, not Business Managers
Vascular surgeons in a community practice think of themselves first and foremost as surgeons – not business people.
Yet they are indeed running a business, with payrolls, payment processing, background checks on potential employees, insurance issues, and many other tasks.
Washington Update: In Big Win, CMS to Cover Exercise Therapy
In a significant victory for PAD patients and their surgeons, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering national Medicare coverage for supervised exercise therapy (SET) beyond the hospital setting to include a physician’s office or a hospital outpatient setting.
JVS: Gender Important Consideration for TEVAR
A recent study finds that women undergoing TEVAR experience worse outcomes and that gender should be considered in an analysis of risk versus benefit.
Education: VESAP4 Is Coming Soon
VESAP4 set to debut soon, including a companion app that will let users access the program off-line and then sync with the desktop version.
2017 VAM: One for the Record Books
VAM'17 attracted the most attendees ever - 1,807 - and set another record for international attendance with 362 registrations.
Record Attendance and Energy Ensure the Vitality of VAM for Years to Come
Dr. Ronald Dalman discusses this year's annual meeting and takes a brief look ahead to VAM'18.
SVS Foundation Expands Mission
The SVS Foundation expands its mission and delineates its vision to support new programs and goals.
Education: VAM Credits, Coding Course, Joint Symposium
Coding course is all set for October 13 and 14, 2017. Claim CMEs and MOCs from VAM by December 31, 2017. And finally, the second annual Joint Review Course will be August 26-28, 2018.
President's Address: Making It Personal Through a Career of Service
Dr. Ronald M. Fairman takes the stage at VAM'17, highlighting the personal side of vascular surgery and a career of service in his presidential address.
From the Editor: Here There Be Dragons...
For the public, navigating the complex world of vascular care must seem like being adrift on the high seas, with brigands and pirates galore. Vascular surgeons, cardiac surgeons, interventional radiologists, and interventional cardiologists all raise their friendly flags to lure patients.
VRIC a Big Success
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News from JVS-VL: Study on Treatment of Venous Ulceration
New evidence suggests that minimally invasive methods to ablate superficial venous reflux in patients with end-stage venous insufficiency are as effective as traditional open venous stripping.
Committee Spotlight: Appointments Committee Helps Keep SVS Humming
The Society for Vascular Surgery appreciates the time, commitment and energy of hundreds of volunteers who staff the Society’s committees and councils.
Washington Update: Support Repeal of IPAB
The Independent Payment Advisory Board, created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act to control Medicare spending, threatens the ability of Congress to ensure access to needed health care, say SVS advocacy staff and members.
Protect Yourself, Family from a Career-Ending Disability
Two disability insurance plans offered to SVS members The famous Lloyd’s of London has insured hands (the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards), legs (Betty Grable and others), chest hair (Welsh crooner Tom Jones), nose (Jimmy Durante), tongues (Gene Simmons of Kiss and others), voice (Bruce Springstee
For Dr. Dardik the First, a First-Rate Award
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Education: VESAP4 Launching this Summer
Students and surgeons will soon have a valuable new learning tool, with the anticipated summer release of VESAP4. The new edition of VESAP will come just in time for the September board qualifying, certification and recertification exams.
Leadership Spotlight: A Conversation with Dr. Joseph Mills
This month’s leadership spotlight is on Joseph L. Mills, MD, FACS, Professor and Chief of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Dr. Mills has been President of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society (now VESS), Western Vascular Society, and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS). He has a strong interest in education and is a past-chair of the Vascular Surgery Board (VSB) of the American Board of Surgery (ABS), and a member of the Surgery Residency Review Committee (RRC) of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education. We discussed his approach to leadership from the viewpoint of the Kouzes/Posner trait of ‘Encouraging the Heart.’
Dr. Herbert Dardik Presented Lifetime Achievement Award at VAM17
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Disability Benefits for SVS Members
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Recent Articles
Dr. Kim J. Hodgson elected SVS President
Dr. Kim J. Hodgson, chair of the division of vascular and endovascular surgery at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Ill., was elected president of the Society for Vascular Surgery for 2019-20 at the organization’s Vascular Annual Meeting in June.
Ronald L. Dalman Elected President-Elect
Dr. Ronald L. Dalman was elected president-elect of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) at the organization’s annual meeting in National Harbor, MD, in June. Next year he will step up to president.
Michel Makaroun Assumes SVS Foundation Chair
CHICAGO, Ill., July 10, 2019 – After serving the previous year as president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Dr. Michel S. Makaroun has moved into his new role as chair of the SVS Foundation.
SVS Elects New Officers for 2019
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., June 28, 2019 – At its annual business meeting, the Society for Vascular Surgery elected new leaders for the 2019-20 year.
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.
Leadership for Women — And for Men
Clearly, neither Kathleen Ozsvath, MD, nor Sherene Shalhub, MD, listened when each was told, more than a decade apart, that “women can’t be surgeons.” Now they’re holding a breakfast session that encourages women to be not only surgeons, but leaders as well.
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.
NEW TO VAM: Plenary Sessions Include Updates on Guidelines & Reporting Standards
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Reporting Standards are important tools as the SVS strives to improve quality of care and reduce variation. They also serve as an important benefit for SVS members.
Wellness Task Force to Update Its Work
Three Sessions Planned
With fresh statistics and compelling anecdotes, the SVS Wellness Task Force will continue its work to facilitate SVS efforts to improve vascular surgeon well-being, by helping mitigate the personal, economic and social impact of vascular surgeon burnout.
Everyone Can Participate in Gala Silent Auction
The SVS “Vascular Spectacular” gala, after months of planning, is nearly here. And everyone, no matter where they are in the world on Friday, June 14, may participate in the Online Raffle or Silent Auction, right until it closes. (One caveat: You’ll need to have an Internet connection.)
Simulation training decreases mortality from ruptured aortic aneurysm
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World vascular societies announce new CLTI guidelines
ROSEMONT, Illinois, June 2019 – Four years ago, vascular experts from around the world had a quixotic quest: get all surgeons and providers to agree on the best ways to treat a common and debilitating illness: chronic limb-threatening ischemia.
From the Editor: Who Won the Bouffant War?
Science, snark, and sartorial folly in the debate over operative attire
BY MALACHI G. SHEAHAN III, MD MEDICAL EDITOR, VASCULAR SPECIALIST
Free vascular screenings set for June 8 at GWU
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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.
Recent Articles
Dr. Kim J. Hodgson elected SVS President
Dr. Kim J. Hodgson, chair of the division of vascular and endovascular surgery at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Ill., was elected president of the Society for Vascular Surgery for 2019-20 at the organization’s Vascular Annual Meeting in June.
Ronald L. Dalman Elected President-Elect
Dr. Ronald L. Dalman was elected president-elect of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) at the organization’s annual meeting in National Harbor, MD, in June. Next year he will step up to president.
Michel Makaroun Assumes SVS Foundation Chair
CHICAGO, Ill., July 10, 2019 – After serving the previous year as president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Dr. Michel S. Makaroun has moved into his new role as chair of the SVS Foundation.
SVS Elects New Officers for 2019
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., June 28, 2019 – At its annual business meeting, the Society for Vascular Surgery elected new leaders for the 2019-20 year.
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.
Leadership for Women — And for Men
Clearly, neither Kathleen Ozsvath, MD, nor Sherene Shalhub, MD, listened when each was told, more than a decade apart, that “women can’t be surgeons.” Now they’re holding a breakfast session that encourages women to be not only surgeons, but leaders as well.
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.
NEW TO VAM: Plenary Sessions Include Updates on Guidelines & Reporting Standards
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Reporting Standards are important tools as the SVS strives to improve quality of care and reduce variation. They also serve as an important benefit for SVS members.
Wellness Task Force to Update Its Work
Three Sessions Planned
With fresh statistics and compelling anecdotes, the SVS Wellness Task Force will continue its work to facilitate SVS efforts to improve vascular surgeon well-being, by helping mitigate the personal, economic and social impact of vascular surgeon burnout.
Everyone Can Participate in Gala Silent Auction
The SVS “Vascular Spectacular” gala, after months of planning, is nearly here. And everyone, no matter where they are in the world on Friday, June 14, may participate in the Online Raffle or Silent Auction, right until it closes. (One caveat: You’ll need to have an Internet connection.)
Simulation training decreases mortality from ruptured aortic aneurysm
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World vascular societies announce new CLTI guidelines
ROSEMONT, Illinois, June 2019 – Four years ago, vascular experts from around the world had a quixotic quest: get all surgeons and providers to agree on the best ways to treat a common and debilitating illness: chronic limb-threatening ischemia.
From the Editor: Who Won the Bouffant War?
Science, snark, and sartorial folly in the debate over operative attire
BY MALACHI G. SHEAHAN III, MD MEDICAL EDITOR, VASCULAR SPECIALIST
Free vascular screenings set for June 8 at GWU
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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.