Washington Update: Resident Gets Closer Look at the Halls of Power
Dr. Jason K. Wagner, M.D., M.S., resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Heart and Vascular Institute, was the 2015 recipient of the SVS Vascular Surgery Trainee Advocacy Travel Scholarship. He spent time during the 2016 Vascular Annual Meeting talking with members of Congress and their staff. Below is his report on the experience, with more information about the scholarship following.
Committee Spotlight: VA Vascular Surgeons Committee
New Committee Helps VA Surgeons Meet Unique Challenges
Vascular surgeons working with the Veterans Administration face unique challenges. To help meet them, the Society for Vascular Surgery created a committee specifically for those members.
Surgeon Veteran Recalls Korean War
This is November, the month of Veterans Day. And the experience of being a surgeon during war is one of the highlights of the SVS History Project Work Group’s new video, an interview with Dr. Milton Weinberg, a member since the mid-1960s.