First of 9 Patient Education Fliers Available
Due to popular demand, the SVS Foundation has developed a new set of patient education fliers. The first one – on Peripheral Arterial Disease – is now available and was released to coincide with PAD Awareness Month in September.
All members are welcome to download and start using the PAD flier, which has a writable area for your name, clinic name and address.
More fliers are coming soon on:
• What is a vascular surgeon?
• Carotid artery disease
• Abdominal aortic aneurysms
• Varicose veins
• Cholesterol/nutrition
• Smoking
SVS Announces Award for Community Service Honoree Will be Community-Based Practitioner
The Society for Vascular Surgery emphasizes not only education and research, but also public awareness.
Now, through the just announced Excellence in Community Service Award, the Society plans to honor a member who has made not only contributions to the profession but to the community as well.
Applications for this new honor are due Feb. 1, 2019. The recipient will be announced and recognized at the 2019 Vascular Annual Meeting in June.
Please Give, Because Every Gift Matters
A letter from the SVS Foundation Chair
Because …
That’s the simple – yet multifaceted — theme for our SVS Foundation Annual Report (just released and available at vsweb.org/ SVSF_Annual_Report_ 2018) and for our annual Giving Campaign.
The word resonates. It links the “why” with the “how” and also reflects the busy and productive past few years.
For example, after expanding our mission last year to include disease prevention and patient awareness and education, we have awarded our first Community Awareness and Prevention Grants.
YOUR SVS
Dues Statements Distributed
Membership dues statements for 2019 were sent to all members at the beginning of October. Members should pay their dues by Dec. 31 to ensure they continue to receive all the benefits of SVS membership. The pluses are numerous and outlined on page 10.
Visit vascular.org/invoices or call the SVS Membership Department, 312-334-2313, to pay dues.
Donate to SVS Foundation While Paying Dues; Read Foundation Annual Report
The Benefits of Belonging
SVS Submits Comments Seeking Changes in CMS Proposed Rules for 2019
In an effort to alter specific policies in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) CY 2019 Medicare Fee Schedule Proposed Rules, Society for Vascular Surgery leaders have submitted a 20-page comment letter with recommendations to CMS.
CMS released the combined Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) /Quality Payment Program (QPP) proposed rule in July. Comments were due in mid-September; the final rule is expected on or around November 1, 2018.
Who can survive a ruptured rAAA?
JVSVL: Compression may promote, but not cause, iliac DVT
SVS: Compression may promote, but not cause, iliac DVT LEFT ILIAC VEIN COMPRESSION IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH INFRAINGUINAL DVT BUT IS ASSOCIATED WITH ILIAC VEIN INVOLVEMENT. Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders, November 2018.
CHICAGO, Illinois, November 2018 – A recent study of a large series of patients with iliofemoral deep venous thrombosis (DVT) from Nanchang University suggests that, in general, compression itself is not the precipitating factor in iliac DVT; rather, it is the promoter of iliac DVT should infra-inguinal thrombosis occur.
NHLBI Gains More Than $200 Million Through Congressional Appropriations in FY19
Increase could benefit vascular research
WASHINGTON, DC – As a result of the advocacy efforts of the SVS and other health specialties, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will receive an 8.8 percent funding increase for 2019 from a Defense, Labor, HHS (Health and Human Services) and Education Appropriations bill that was passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump Sept. 28.