2018 Vascular Annual Meeting

Something old, something new, something improved.

The old is providing a schedule of VAM’s myriad events. This year, find that schedule on “something new,” our interactive VAM Planner (vsweb.org/VAMPlanner), which not only includes the lineup but also lets attendees create their own VAM schedules from beginning to end.

And something improved is the VAM Mobile App, which has been redesigned to be more intuitive, more useful, and to more easily integrate with the VAM Planner.

As its name suggests, the VAM Planner permits users to plan their own VAM experience. See a session you want to attend? Mark it as a favorite. The Planner will add it to your calendar and remind you of what you planned to attend. Then, when you install the app and fire it up, those favorites, and other details you entered in the Planner, will be right there on your phone or other mobile device.

The Planner lets attendees seek out information easily: a presenter, a topic, the kind of session, an area of interest, intended audience. Perhaps someone wants to view all the sessions of interest to academics. Done. Want to know which sessions offer Continuing Medical Education credits? That information is easily found as well.

Pop-ups provide pertinent information on a given program with date and time, location, moderators, learning objectives, and more. People can read presenter biographies and mark various events as favorites, “like” them, post them to Facebook, or tweet about them.

Single sign-on adds convenience: To save information on the Planner, users must create a log-in. That “single sign-on” log-in, with just one password, is used for registration and syncing with the mobile app and Planner. Only one log-in and one password, during any VAM process, will open the door to navigating all platforms. SVS nonmembers or VQI attendees will need to create a guest account in order to take advantage of this functionality.

Online integration: If you’ve already registered for VAM, your ticketed courses such as breakfast sessions, workshops, or postgraduate courses as well as special events, will automatically transfer to the Planner after you log in.

It all adds up to an improved and easier VAM experience. 

Something old, something new, something improved.

The old is providing a schedule of VAM’s myriad events. This year, find that schedule on “something new,” our interactive VAM Planner (vsweb.org/VAMPlanner), which not only includes the lineup but also lets attendees create their own VAM schedules from beginning to end.

And something improved is the VAM Mobile App, which has been redesigned to be more intuitive, more useful, and to more easily integrate with the VAM Planner.

As its name suggests, the VAM Planner permits users to plan their own VAM experience. See a session you want to attend? Mark it as a favorite. The Planner will add it to your calendar and remind you of what you planned to attend. Then, when you install the app and fire it up, those favorites, and other details you entered in the Planner, will be right there on your phone or other mobile device.

The Planner lets attendees seek out information easily: a presenter, a topic, the kind of session, an area of interest, intended audience. Perhaps someone wants to view all the sessions of interest to academics. Done. Want to know which sessions offer Continuing Medical Education credits? That information is easily found as well.

Pop-ups provide pertinent information on a given program with date and time, location, moderators, learning objectives, and more. People can read presenter biographies and mark various events as favorites, “like” them, post them to Facebook, or tweet about them.

Single sign-on adds convenience: To save information on the Planner, users must create a log-in. That “single sign-on” log-in, with just one password, is used for registration and syncing with the mobile app and Planner. Only one log-in and one password, during any VAM process, will open the door to navigating all platforms. SVS nonmembers or VQI attendees will need to create a guest account in order to take advantage of this functionality.

Online integration: If you’ve already registered for VAM, your ticketed courses such as breakfast sessions, workshops, or postgraduate courses as well as special events, will automatically transfer to the Planner after you log in.

It all adds up to an improved and easier VAM experience. 

Something old, something new, something improved.

The old is providing a schedule of VAM’s myriad events. This year, find that schedule on “something new,” our interactive VAM Planner (vsweb.org/VAMPlanner), which not only includes the lineup but also lets attendees create their own VAM schedules from beginning to end.

And something improved is the VAM Mobile App, which has been redesigned to be more intuitive, more useful, and to more easily integrate with the VAM Planner.

As its name suggests, the VAM Planner permits users to plan their own VAM experience. See a session you want to attend? Mark it as a favorite. The Planner will add it to your calendar and remind you of what you planned to attend. Then, when you install the app and fire it up, those favorites, and other details you entered in the Planner, will be right there on your phone or other mobile device.

The Planner lets attendees seek out information easily: a presenter, a topic, the kind of session, an area of interest, intended audience. Perhaps someone wants to view all the sessions of interest to academics. Done. Want to know which sessions offer Continuing Medical Education credits? That information is easily found as well.

Pop-ups provide pertinent information on a given program with date and time, location, moderators, learning objectives, and more. People can read presenter biographies and mark various events as favorites, “like” them, post them to Facebook, or tweet about them.

Single sign-on adds convenience: To save information on the Planner, users must create a log-in. That “single sign-on” log-in, with just one password, is used for registration and syncing with the mobile app and Planner. Only one log-in and one password, during any VAM process, will open the door to navigating all platforms. SVS nonmembers or VQI attendees will need to create a guest account in order to take advantage of this functionality.

Online integration: If you’ve already registered for VAM, your ticketed courses such as breakfast sessions, workshops, or postgraduate courses as well as special events, will automatically transfer to the Planner after you log in.

It all adds up to an improved and easier VAM experience. 

On the advent of this year’s Society for Vascular Surgery’s (SVS) Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), I would like to welcome you to the 2018 ­annual spring meeting for VESS, which convenes in conjunction with VAM on June 20 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Our Wednesday program looks very diverse and outstanding, covering key topics in aortic and branch aortic, cerebrovascular, lower extremity, venous disease, hemodialysis, physician wellness/burnout, academic issues, and the medical management of vascular disease. Thank you to Matthew Smeds and the rest of the program committee for putting together such an engaging lineup for this year’s spring meeting! I would also encourage you to visit our industry sponsors for this event; exhibits will be available for perusal June 21-22 within the convention center. Finally, we will be cosponsoring an event Thursday, June 21, at 7 p.m. in the Independence West Room of the Sheraton Hotel as a Networking Reception for Women, Diversity, and Young Surgeons. All residents and students are invited to attend this networking reception hosted by SVS and VESS. Thanks also to the SVS for hosting this meeting and for the ongoing collaboration we have enjoyed between our societies!

VESS members and leadership have continued to elevate the practice of vascular surgery and the research that has defined it. The more than 40-year history of this society is well outlined by Dr. Vik Kashyap in J Vasc Surg 2014;60(4):1123-4. VESS remains focused on engaging vascular trainees and vascular surgeons within a framework of collegial academic excellence. We continue to support research through grant funding at both the trainee and young investigator levels, and our presenters at both the spring VESS/VAM and Winter Annual Meetings enjoy a very high acceptance rate for publication of their findings. For more information about VESS, just visit vesurgery.org. The leadership for this society is proud of what it stands for. We are committed to exploring relevant and educational topics in vascular surgery. We hope this year’s spring meeting enhances your understanding and practice of vascular surgery. See you June 20th! 

Jon Eliason, MD
VESS President

On the advent of this year’s Society for Vascular Surgery’s (SVS) Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), I would like to welcome you to the 2018 ­annual spring meeting for VESS, which convenes in conjunction with VAM on June 20 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Our Wednesday program looks very diverse and outstanding, covering key topics in aortic and branch aortic, cerebrovascular, lower extremity, venous disease, hemodialysis, physician wellness/burnout, academic issues, and the medical management of vascular disease. Thank you to Matthew Smeds and the rest of the program committee for putting together such an engaging lineup for this year’s spring meeting! I would also encourage you to visit our industry sponsors for this event; exhibits will be available for perusal June 21-22 within the convention center. Finally, we will be cosponsoring an event Thursday, June 21, at 7 p.m. in the Independence West Room of the Sheraton Hotel as a Networking Reception for Women, Diversity, and Young Surgeons. All residents and students are invited to attend this networking reception hosted by SVS and VESS. Thanks also to the SVS for hosting this meeting and for the ongoing collaboration we have enjoyed between our societies!

VESS members and leadership have continued to elevate the practice of vascular surgery and the research that has defined it. The more than 40-year history of this society is well outlined by Dr. Vik Kashyap in J Vasc Surg 2014;60(4):1123-4. VESS remains focused on engaging vascular trainees and vascular surgeons within a framework of collegial academic excellence. We continue to support research through grant funding at both the trainee and young investigator levels, and our presenters at both the spring VESS/VAM and Winter Annual Meetings enjoy a very high acceptance rate for publication of their findings. For more information about VESS, just visit vesurgery.org. The leadership for this society is proud of what it stands for. We are committed to exploring relevant and educational topics in vascular surgery. We hope this year’s spring meeting enhances your understanding and practice of vascular surgery. See you June 20th! 

Jon Eliason, MD
VESS President

On the advent of this year’s Society for Vascular Surgery’s (SVS) Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), I would like to welcome you to the 2018 ­annual spring meeting for VESS, which convenes in conjunction with VAM on June 20 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Our Wednesday program looks very diverse and outstanding, covering key topics in aortic and branch aortic, cerebrovascular, lower extremity, venous disease, hemodialysis, physician wellness/burnout, academic issues, and the medical management of vascular disease. Thank you to Matthew Smeds and the rest of the program committee for putting together such an engaging lineup for this year’s spring meeting! I would also encourage you to visit our industry sponsors for this event; exhibits will be available for perusal June 21-22 within the convention center. Finally, we will be cosponsoring an event Thursday, June 21, at 7 p.m. in the Independence West Room of the Sheraton Hotel as a Networking Reception for Women, Diversity, and Young Surgeons. All residents and students are invited to attend this networking reception hosted by SVS and VESS. Thanks also to the SVS for hosting this meeting and for the ongoing collaboration we have enjoyed between our societies!

VESS members and leadership have continued to elevate the practice of vascular surgery and the research that has defined it. The more than 40-year history of this society is well outlined by Dr. Vik Kashyap in J Vasc Surg 2014;60(4):1123-4. VESS remains focused on engaging vascular trainees and vascular surgeons within a framework of collegial academic excellence. We continue to support research through grant funding at both the trainee and young investigator levels, and our presenters at both the spring VESS/VAM and Winter Annual Meetings enjoy a very high acceptance rate for publication of their findings. For more information about VESS, just visit vesurgery.org. The leadership for this society is proud of what it stands for. We are committed to exploring relevant and educational topics in vascular surgery. We hope this year’s spring meeting enhances your understanding and practice of vascular surgery. See you June 20th! 

Jon Eliason, MD
VESS President

It seems fitting, said Tiffany Street, President of the Society for Vascular Nursing, that SVN and SVS have their conferences in the same location and with overlapping times.

Joanna Bronson/SVS

“It parallels what we do every day in clinical practice,” she said. “Recently, we have focused our attention on the emphasis of the clinical vascular care team. Physicians and nurses collaborate daily on the care of vascular patients so collaboration in the learning environment is imperative.”

SVN’s 36th Annual Conference, SVN @SVS, will be held June 20 to 21, coinciding with the opening two days of VAM. The SVN conference registration fee permits entrance to VAM, as well.

Both organizations are emphasizing the team approach to vascular care this year, with SVN also stressing vascular education and the holistic approach to vascular patient care, Ms. Street said. An abstract session Thursday will focus on “The Vascular Team Connections,” with two abstract presentations plus a panel discussion on “How Collaboration Changes a Patient.” Speakers include surgeon and SVS President R. Clement Darling III, MD; a physician assistant, Erin Hanlon, PA-PAC; and two nurses, Marie Rossi, BS, RN, and Karen Fitzgerald, MSN, RN, NP.

The team approach is vitally important, Ms. Street said. “Vascular nursing is responsible for the care of the patient across the continuum in collaboration with the surgeon,” she said.

Undergoing a surgical procedure affects not only the patient but also the patient’s family, she pointed out. “Because the family support system is vital to good postoperative outcomes, vascular nurses support the family as well.” Nurses cover with the patient and family what they all might expect during the patient’s recovery, helping them think through the various issues and how best to manage them, she said. “It’s all part of the team approach.”

Abstract sessions at SVN @SVS will focus on CLI, AAA, carotid artery, PAD, venous and arterial compression, and vascular team connections. Concurrent sessions will target both the novice and experienced nurse, plus include other emphases, as well. Several SVS members will be presenters at SVN sessions.

The keynote address will cover the care of patients from the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Jonathan Gates, MD, who was Medical Director of Trauma Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at the time of the bombing and operated on bombing victims that day, will present the address. Other sessions at the Vascular Annual Meeting also stress the vascular team and patient benefits, including “Team Forum: Improving Metrics in Clinical Practice,” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Friday. Nurses are sure to find topics of interest at VAM, said Dr. Darling. “I find the team approach integral to optimal patient outcomes,” he said. “I could not be happier at including all members of the team at this year’s VAM, from the special programming for physician assistants on Thursday afternoon to SVN @SVS.

“When we work together,” he said, “everyone benefits, especially the patient.”

Visit vsweb.org/SVN18conference or the VAM Planner (vsweb.org/VAMPlanner) for the complete schedule and more information. 

It seems fitting, said Tiffany Street, President of the Society for Vascular Nursing, that SVN and SVS have their conferences in the same location and with overlapping times.

Joanna Bronson/SVS

“It parallels what we do every day in clinical practice,” she said. “Recently, we have focused our attention on the emphasis of the clinical vascular care team. Physicians and nurses collaborate daily on the care of vascular patients so collaboration in the learning environment is imperative.”

SVN’s 36th Annual Conference, SVN @SVS, will be held June 20 to 21, coinciding with the opening two days of VAM. The SVN conference registration fee permits entrance to VAM, as well.

Both organizations are emphasizing the team approach to vascular care this year, with SVN also stressing vascular education and the holistic approach to vascular patient care, Ms. Street said. An abstract session Thursday will focus on “The Vascular Team Connections,” with two abstract presentations plus a panel discussion on “How Collaboration Changes a Patient.” Speakers include surgeon and SVS President R. Clement Darling III, MD; a physician assistant, Erin Hanlon, PA-PAC; and two nurses, Marie Rossi, BS, RN, and Karen Fitzgerald, MSN, RN, NP.

The team approach is vitally important, Ms. Street said. “Vascular nursing is responsible for the care of the patient across the continuum in collaboration with the surgeon,” she said.

Undergoing a surgical procedure affects not only the patient but also the patient’s family, she pointed out. “Because the family support system is vital to good postoperative outcomes, vascular nurses support the family as well.” Nurses cover with the patient and family what they all might expect during the patient’s recovery, helping them think through the various issues and how best to manage them, she said. “It’s all part of the team approach.”

Abstract sessions at SVN @SVS will focus on CLI, AAA, carotid artery, PAD, venous and arterial compression, and vascular team connections. Concurrent sessions will target both the novice and experienced nurse, plus include other emphases, as well. Several SVS members will be presenters at SVN sessions.

The keynote address will cover the care of patients from the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Jonathan Gates, MD, who was Medical Director of Trauma Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at the time of the bombing and operated on bombing victims that day, will present the address. Other sessions at the Vascular Annual Meeting also stress the vascular team and patient benefits, including “Team Forum: Improving Metrics in Clinical Practice,” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Friday. Nurses are sure to find topics of interest at VAM, said Dr. Darling. “I find the team approach integral to optimal patient outcomes,” he said. “I could not be happier at including all members of the team at this year’s VAM, from the special programming for physician assistants on Thursday afternoon to SVN @SVS.

“When we work together,” he said, “everyone benefits, especially the patient.”

Visit vsweb.org/SVN18conference or the VAM Planner (vsweb.org/VAMPlanner) for the complete schedule and more information. 

It seems fitting, said Tiffany Street, President of the Society for Vascular Nursing, that SVN and SVS have their conferences in the same location and with overlapping times.

Joanna Bronson/SVS

“It parallels what we do every day in clinical practice,” she said. “Recently, we have focused our attention on the emphasis of the clinical vascular care team. Physicians and nurses collaborate daily on the care of vascular patients so collaboration in the learning environment is imperative.”

SVN’s 36th Annual Conference, SVN @SVS, will be held June 20 to 21, coinciding with the opening two days of VAM. The SVN conference registration fee permits entrance to VAM, as well.

Both organizations are emphasizing the team approach to vascular care this year, with SVN also stressing vascular education and the holistic approach to vascular patient care, Ms. Street said. An abstract session Thursday will focus on “The Vascular Team Connections,” with two abstract presentations plus a panel discussion on “How Collaboration Changes a Patient.” Speakers include surgeon and SVS President R. Clement Darling III, MD; a physician assistant, Erin Hanlon, PA-PAC; and two nurses, Marie Rossi, BS, RN, and Karen Fitzgerald, MSN, RN, NP.

The team approach is vitally important, Ms. Street said. “Vascular nursing is responsible for the care of the patient across the continuum in collaboration with the surgeon,” she said.

Undergoing a surgical procedure affects not only the patient but also the patient’s family, she pointed out. “Because the family support system is vital to good postoperative outcomes, vascular nurses support the family as well.” Nurses cover with the patient and family what they all might expect during the patient’s recovery, helping them think through the various issues and how best to manage them, she said. “It’s all part of the team approach.”

Abstract sessions at SVN @SVS will focus on CLI, AAA, carotid artery, PAD, venous and arterial compression, and vascular team connections. Concurrent sessions will target both the novice and experienced nurse, plus include other emphases, as well. Several SVS members will be presenters at SVN sessions.

The keynote address will cover the care of patients from the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Jonathan Gates, MD, who was Medical Director of Trauma Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at the time of the bombing and operated on bombing victims that day, will present the address. Other sessions at the Vascular Annual Meeting also stress the vascular team and patient benefits, including “Team Forum: Improving Metrics in Clinical Practice,” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Friday. Nurses are sure to find topics of interest at VAM, said Dr. Darling. “I find the team approach integral to optimal patient outcomes,” he said. “I could not be happier at including all members of the team at this year’s VAM, from the special programming for physician assistants on Thursday afternoon to SVN @SVS.

“When we work together,” he said, “everyone benefits, especially the patient.”

Visit vsweb.org/SVN18conference or the VAM Planner (vsweb.org/VAMPlanner) for the complete schedule and more information. 

The E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum – marking 25 years under that name this year – is a mainstay of the Vascular Annual Meeting.

But who was E. Stanley Crawford?

He was a “cardiovascular surgeon extraordinare,” according to the late Calvin Ernst, MD, writing after Dr. Crawford’s death in late 1992. Dr. Crawford developed new techniques for treating AAA; was a coinventor of the Baylor (College of Medicine, where he worked from 1956 until his death) Rapid Autologus Transfusion System, a machine that recycles a patient’s red blood cells during surgery; and wrote more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. With his son, Dr. John Lloyd Crawford II, he wrote the “Diseases of the Aorta” textbook, which Dr. Ernst called “a standard reference text on aortic surgery.”

Dr. Crawford also helped develop the SVS Forum on Critical Issues, convening the first session during the 1988 VAM. It was decided the forum should address socioeconomic and research issues, as they impact vascular surgery, and be led by that year’s president-elect.

Dr. Ernst said Dr. Crawford believed the vascular surgery specialty had become “increasingly vague, its mission ill-defined, and its future membership uncertain. The big question: 'Who would want to go into vascular surgery today with the uncertainties of tomorrow and how can those already committed remain dominant?’ ” Dr. Ernst wrote.

Dr. Crawford felt the SVS needed to take a leadership role in this and other questions; he believed the SVS and its members were eminently qualified to do so successfully.

After his death, the SVS Executive Council unanimously agreed to rename the Critical Issues Forum for Dr. Crawford. The first such named forum was held 25 years ago, at the 1993 VAM.

This year’s Crawford Forum will focus on the vascular surgery workforce, addressing challenges and solutions. President-Elect Michel S. Makaroun, MD, who spearheaded a survey of SVS members on workforce data in late December 2017, will moderate.

The E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum – marking 25 years under that name this year – is a mainstay of the Vascular Annual Meeting.

But who was E. Stanley Crawford?

He was a “cardiovascular surgeon extraordinare,” according to the late Calvin Ernst, MD, writing after Dr. Crawford’s death in late 1992. Dr. Crawford developed new techniques for treating AAA; was a coinventor of the Baylor (College of Medicine, where he worked from 1956 until his death) Rapid Autologus Transfusion System, a machine that recycles a patient’s red blood cells during surgery; and wrote more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. With his son, Dr. John Lloyd Crawford II, he wrote the “Diseases of the Aorta” textbook, which Dr. Ernst called “a standard reference text on aortic surgery.”

Dr. Crawford also helped develop the SVS Forum on Critical Issues, convening the first session during the 1988 VAM. It was decided the forum should address socioeconomic and research issues, as they impact vascular surgery, and be led by that year’s president-elect.

Dr. Ernst said Dr. Crawford believed the vascular surgery specialty had become “increasingly vague, its mission ill-defined, and its future membership uncertain. The big question: 'Who would want to go into vascular surgery today with the uncertainties of tomorrow and how can those already committed remain dominant?’ ” Dr. Ernst wrote.

Dr. Crawford felt the SVS needed to take a leadership role in this and other questions; he believed the SVS and its members were eminently qualified to do so successfully.

After his death, the SVS Executive Council unanimously agreed to rename the Critical Issues Forum for Dr. Crawford. The first such named forum was held 25 years ago, at the 1993 VAM.

This year’s Crawford Forum will focus on the vascular surgery workforce, addressing challenges and solutions. President-Elect Michel S. Makaroun, MD, who spearheaded a survey of SVS members on workforce data in late December 2017, will moderate.

The E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum – marking 25 years under that name this year – is a mainstay of the Vascular Annual Meeting.

But who was E. Stanley Crawford?

He was a “cardiovascular surgeon extraordinare,” according to the late Calvin Ernst, MD, writing after Dr. Crawford’s death in late 1992. Dr. Crawford developed new techniques for treating AAA; was a coinventor of the Baylor (College of Medicine, where he worked from 1956 until his death) Rapid Autologus Transfusion System, a machine that recycles a patient’s red blood cells during surgery; and wrote more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. With his son, Dr. John Lloyd Crawford II, he wrote the “Diseases of the Aorta” textbook, which Dr. Ernst called “a standard reference text on aortic surgery.”

Dr. Crawford also helped develop the SVS Forum on Critical Issues, convening the first session during the 1988 VAM. It was decided the forum should address socioeconomic and research issues, as they impact vascular surgery, and be led by that year’s president-elect.

Dr. Ernst said Dr. Crawford believed the vascular surgery specialty had become “increasingly vague, its mission ill-defined, and its future membership uncertain. The big question: 'Who would want to go into vascular surgery today with the uncertainties of tomorrow and how can those already committed remain dominant?’ ” Dr. Ernst wrote.

Dr. Crawford felt the SVS needed to take a leadership role in this and other questions; he believed the SVS and its members were eminently qualified to do so successfully.

After his death, the SVS Executive Council unanimously agreed to rename the Critical Issues Forum for Dr. Crawford. The first such named forum was held 25 years ago, at the 1993 VAM.

This year’s Crawford Forum will focus on the vascular surgery workforce, addressing challenges and solutions. President-Elect Michel S. Makaroun, MD, who spearheaded a survey of SVS members on workforce data in late December 2017, will moderate.

Boston is my hometown and I can’t wait to show it off at our Vascular Annual Meeting.

Come join me there June 20-23 for the preeminent educational and social networking event of the year in vascular surgery. Scientific sessions will be June 21-23 and the Exhibit Hall will be open June 21-22.

All scientific meetings, educational sessions, and exhibits will be at the Hynes Convention Center. Committee meetings, the SVS Board of Directors meeting, and alumni and committee receptions will be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, the VAM headquarters hotel. Other hotel options are available. (See vsweb.org/hotels18.) Special room rates were to end May 22, so it’s possible you may need to make your own housing arrangements.

This year’s VAM is all about the vascular team. In fact, that’s the theme: “Home of the Vascular Team – Partners in Patient Care.” There are sessions for the whole team – surgeons, nurses, nurse practitioners, technologists, and physician assistants. We have special programming for PAs on Thursday afternoon, and the Vascular Quality Initiative and the Society for Vascular Nursing are holding their annual sessions in tandem with VAM.

Creating the program followed extensive surveying after the 2017 meeting. In response to member feedback, this year we are highlighting:

• Topics and practical sessions for community practitioners and young surgeons, including on clinical practice guidelines, practice management, even physician burnout.
• More opportunities to interact with presenters, particularly with the “Tips & Tricks” and “Ask the Experts” daily sessions.
• Ideas and translational research that participants can take home to their practices.
• VAM on Demand, letting you catch up on missed sessions afterwards, plus the VAM Planner and a new mobile app to help everyone design their own meetings and navigate VAM easily.

The familiar favorites will be there: workshops, concurrent and scientific sessions, postgraduate courses – free to SVS members, a $300 value – events for international members, collaborative sessions with other societies, plenty of opportunities to network and connect with friends and colleagues, and educational credits, not to mention the chance to explore the fascinating city I’ve always loved.

We have a great mix of old activities and some new initiatives. And we’re excited for you to experience it all at VAM 2018. See you in Beantown. 

Boston is my hometown and I can’t wait to show it off at our Vascular Annual Meeting.

Come join me there June 20-23 for the preeminent educational and social networking event of the year in vascular surgery. Scientific sessions will be June 21-23 and the Exhibit Hall will be open June 21-22.

All scientific meetings, educational sessions, and exhibits will be at the Hynes Convention Center. Committee meetings, the SVS Board of Directors meeting, and alumni and committee receptions will be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, the VAM headquarters hotel. Other hotel options are available. (See vsweb.org/hotels18.) Special room rates were to end May 22, so it’s possible you may need to make your own housing arrangements.

This year’s VAM is all about the vascular team. In fact, that’s the theme: “Home of the Vascular Team – Partners in Patient Care.” There are sessions for the whole team – surgeons, nurses, nurse practitioners, technologists, and physician assistants. We have special programming for PAs on Thursday afternoon, and the Vascular Quality Initiative and the Society for Vascular Nursing are holding their annual sessions in tandem with VAM.

Creating the program followed extensive surveying after the 2017 meeting. In response to member feedback, this year we are highlighting:

• Topics and practical sessions for community practitioners and young surgeons, including on clinical practice guidelines, practice management, even physician burnout.
• More opportunities to interact with presenters, particularly with the “Tips & Tricks” and “Ask the Experts” daily sessions.
• Ideas and translational research that participants can take home to their practices.
• VAM on Demand, letting you catch up on missed sessions afterwards, plus the VAM Planner and a new mobile app to help everyone design their own meetings and navigate VAM easily.

The familiar favorites will be there: workshops, concurrent and scientific sessions, postgraduate courses – free to SVS members, a $300 value – events for international members, collaborative sessions with other societies, plenty of opportunities to network and connect with friends and colleagues, and educational credits, not to mention the chance to explore the fascinating city I’ve always loved.

We have a great mix of old activities and some new initiatives. And we’re excited for you to experience it all at VAM 2018. See you in Beantown. 

Boston is my hometown and I can’t wait to show it off at our Vascular Annual Meeting.

Come join me there June 20-23 for the preeminent educational and social networking event of the year in vascular surgery. Scientific sessions will be June 21-23 and the Exhibit Hall will be open June 21-22.

All scientific meetings, educational sessions, and exhibits will be at the Hynes Convention Center. Committee meetings, the SVS Board of Directors meeting, and alumni and committee receptions will be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, the VAM headquarters hotel. Other hotel options are available. (See vsweb.org/hotels18.) Special room rates were to end May 22, so it’s possible you may need to make your own housing arrangements.

This year’s VAM is all about the vascular team. In fact, that’s the theme: “Home of the Vascular Team – Partners in Patient Care.” There are sessions for the whole team – surgeons, nurses, nurse practitioners, technologists, and physician assistants. We have special programming for PAs on Thursday afternoon, and the Vascular Quality Initiative and the Society for Vascular Nursing are holding their annual sessions in tandem with VAM.

Creating the program followed extensive surveying after the 2017 meeting. In response to member feedback, this year we are highlighting:

• Topics and practical sessions for community practitioners and young surgeons, including on clinical practice guidelines, practice management, even physician burnout.
• More opportunities to interact with presenters, particularly with the “Tips & Tricks” and “Ask the Experts” daily sessions.
• Ideas and translational research that participants can take home to their practices.
• VAM on Demand, letting you catch up on missed sessions afterwards, plus the VAM Planner and a new mobile app to help everyone design their own meetings and navigate VAM easily.

The familiar favorites will be there: workshops, concurrent and scientific sessions, postgraduate courses – free to SVS members, a $300 value – events for international members, collaborative sessions with other societies, plenty of opportunities to network and connect with friends and colleagues, and educational credits, not to mention the chance to explore the fascinating city I’ve always loved.

We have a great mix of old activities and some new initiatives. And we’re excited for you to experience it all at VAM 2018. See you in Beantown.