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Planner, Mobile App Work Together to Simplify VAM Navigation
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.
Three Event Favorites Have Been Moved to Saturday
From the opening postgraduate courses on Wednesday morning to the RPVI exam review course and the Championship Round of the Poster Competition on Saturday afternoon, the 2018 Vascular Annual Meeting is chock-full of interesting and informative sessions.
To answer members’ requests to spread sessions out through all four days, three events that formerly were held Thursday will take place Saturday morning, instead:
- The John Homans Lecture, 9:30 to 10 a.m., given by Hazim Safi, MD.
- The Awards Ceremony, including the SVS Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony, naming this year's award recipeint, 10 to 10:15 a.m. Who will it be? Come to the ceremony to find out.
- The Roy Greenberg Distinguished Lecture, 10:15 to 10:45 a.m., presented by Kenneth Ouriel, MD. He will discuss “Imaging in Two, Three and Four Dimensions: A Common Trait of the Successful Medical Device Innovator.”
Both the Homans and Greenberg lectures will be moderated by SVS President R. Clement Darling III, MD.
From the opening postgraduate courses on Wednesday morning to the RPVI exam review course and the Championship Round of the Poster Competition on Saturday afternoon, the 2018 Vascular Annual Meeting is chock-full of interesting and informative sessions.
To answer members’ requests to spread sessions out through all four days, three events that formerly were held Thursday will take place Saturday morning, instead:
- The John Homans Lecture, 9:30 to 10 a.m., given by Hazim Safi, MD.
- The Awards Ceremony, including the SVS Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony, naming this year's award recipeint, 10 to 10:15 a.m. Who will it be? Come to the ceremony to find out.
- The Roy Greenberg Distinguished Lecture, 10:15 to 10:45 a.m., presented by Kenneth Ouriel, MD. He will discuss “Imaging in Two, Three and Four Dimensions: A Common Trait of the Successful Medical Device Innovator.”
Both the Homans and Greenberg lectures will be moderated by SVS President R. Clement Darling III, MD.
From the opening postgraduate courses on Wednesday morning to the RPVI exam review course and the Championship Round of the Poster Competition on Saturday afternoon, the 2018 Vascular Annual Meeting is chock-full of interesting and informative sessions.
To answer members’ requests to spread sessions out through all four days, three events that formerly were held Thursday will take place Saturday morning, instead:
- The John Homans Lecture, 9:30 to 10 a.m., given by Hazim Safi, MD.
- The Awards Ceremony, including the SVS Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony, naming this year's award recipeint, 10 to 10:15 a.m. Who will it be? Come to the ceremony to find out.
- The Roy Greenberg Distinguished Lecture, 10:15 to 10:45 a.m., presented by Kenneth Ouriel, MD. He will discuss “Imaging in Two, Three and Four Dimensions: A Common Trait of the Successful Medical Device Innovator.”
Both the Homans and Greenberg lectures will be moderated by SVS President R. Clement Darling III, MD.
Dear VESS Members and Attendees: Welcome to Spring Meeting
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
With Collaboration the Norm, Fitting For Nurses, Surgeons to Have Meetings in Tandem
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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
Crawford Forum Celebrates 25 Years
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.
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.
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.
Making it Personal Through a Career of Service
Ronald M. Fairman, MD, held center stage Friday to present his presidential address, highlighting the personal side of vascular surgery and a career of service.
After acknowledging his family, friends, mentors, the international surgeon community, and his “family” at the University of Pennsylvania, he took the audience on “an abbreviated journey” to share events he hoped would resonate.
“Yes, it is true I was born at Penn and I am still there,” he joked. A rotation on the Penn Vascular Service led him to vascular surgery. “I was drawn to many aspects of the specialty: really sick patients, the opportunity to do tons of surgery, fast pace, the engagement of the faculty” and more.
He started his own private practice after his fellowship. With hard work and a 24/7 schedule, he built a large practice with staff, incorporated and began running a business. Feeling good about his contributions to his hospital, he requested new imaging equipment. The request was denied, with the CFO telling Dr. Fairman, “you are a financial loser for our hospital,” because length of stay for his ruptured AAA patients was much longer than the national average. “I was a loser because my patients were surviving,” he said, astonished that this CFO didn’t understand this. He told the CFO, “If I am a financial loser, I’m outa here. … This was personal and yes, I got the equipment for our vascular lab.”
He told several patient stories, including that of one who nearly died, but whose wife refused to let Dr. Fairman give up on. Complications arose from a left-behind sponge and Dr. Fairman ultimately had to operate again. He told the couple a large settlement would certainly be theirs if they sued, which they refused to do. Indeed they sent Christmas cards for years. “This was personal,” Dr. Fairman said.
In the 1990s, with health care changing, he decided he needed to re-create his career. He returned to Penn; hospital officials, – who “had discovered I wasn’t a financial loser after all” – were not happy. And patients followed him. “It was personal and I provided a valued service,” he said.
He took advantage of a new emphasis on clinical trials that allowed researchers to advance endovascular aortic and carotid therapies, among others, and the division became nationally recognized. The specialty became interesting to him again.
A 2007 malpractice case brought him low. During this self-described “dark time,” SVS member Dr. David Gillespie put together a volunteer program to send members to Landstuhl, Germany, to provided additional vascular support for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result of his inspiring two-week tour of duty, Dr. Fairman recovered “my sense of service, duty, and mission.” Between 2007 and 2014, 177 SVS members participated, with 28 members performing multiple tours of duty. “Talk about making it personal and commitment to service!” he said.
Dr. Fairman also discussed his efforts at Penn to discuss the financial component of worth and service, in advance of his address. The exercise was illuminating. “For every dollar we primarily generate on the inpatient side, at least another dollar is generated for other services,” he said.
He also highlighted many Society achievements and initiatives, including:
- An emphasis on quality outcomes; communicating the value of membership; practice guidelines, government relations work, and increased collaboration with other organizations.
- The relevance and value of VAM.
- A new initiative with the American College of Surgeons, the Vascular Validation Project, to create Vascular Centers of Excellence. “This will be of vital importance to the future success of our specialty and you will hear more about this over the next year,” he promised.
- Efforts for the SVS to support members who increasingly practice in outpatient centers.
- Alignment around “advocacy, practice, education, the vascular team and you, our membership.”
- Integrating community-practice members into the SVS leadership and governance.
He ended with “pearls” of advice for the younger audience, including considering their careers as a sprint, not a marathon. Collaborate when possible, but retain ownership. Don’t be afraid to make career changes and fail. Remain flexible, reinvent yourself. Don’t flip out too often (which elicited a laugh from attendees). Retain professional passion. Start new programs. Become a mentor. Remember the mission is to serve patients.
“But above all else, keep your eye on the prize, those things that keep you human and grounded and help you maintain your humility,” he said. “You will make it highly personal and you will make a difference to your patients through a career of service.”
Paraphrasing U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm’s quote that “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth,” he applied it to vascular surgeons, who have a purpose to serve patients. “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of patient care. It is deeply personal,” he said.
“Colleagues, thank you for allowing me to be your president this past year,” he concluded. “In this highly dangerous and volatile world, may God bless all of us and our mission to our patients.”
Ronald M. Fairman, MD, held center stage Friday to present his presidential address, highlighting the personal side of vascular surgery and a career of service.
After acknowledging his family, friends, mentors, the international surgeon community, and his “family” at the University of Pennsylvania, he took the audience on “an abbreviated journey” to share events he hoped would resonate.
“Yes, it is true I was born at Penn and I am still there,” he joked. A rotation on the Penn Vascular Service led him to vascular surgery. “I was drawn to many aspects of the specialty: really sick patients, the opportunity to do tons of surgery, fast pace, the engagement of the faculty” and more.
He started his own private practice after his fellowship. With hard work and a 24/7 schedule, he built a large practice with staff, incorporated and began running a business. Feeling good about his contributions to his hospital, he requested new imaging equipment. The request was denied, with the CFO telling Dr. Fairman, “you are a financial loser for our hospital,” because length of stay for his ruptured AAA patients was much longer than the national average. “I was a loser because my patients were surviving,” he said, astonished that this CFO didn’t understand this. He told the CFO, “If I am a financial loser, I’m outa here. … This was personal and yes, I got the equipment for our vascular lab.”
He told several patient stories, including that of one who nearly died, but whose wife refused to let Dr. Fairman give up on. Complications arose from a left-behind sponge and Dr. Fairman ultimately had to operate again. He told the couple a large settlement would certainly be theirs if they sued, which they refused to do. Indeed they sent Christmas cards for years. “This was personal,” Dr. Fairman said.
In the 1990s, with health care changing, he decided he needed to re-create his career. He returned to Penn; hospital officials, – who “had discovered I wasn’t a financial loser after all” – were not happy. And patients followed him. “It was personal and I provided a valued service,” he said.
He took advantage of a new emphasis on clinical trials that allowed researchers to advance endovascular aortic and carotid therapies, among others, and the division became nationally recognized. The specialty became interesting to him again.
A 2007 malpractice case brought him low. During this self-described “dark time,” SVS member Dr. David Gillespie put together a volunteer program to send members to Landstuhl, Germany, to provided additional vascular support for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result of his inspiring two-week tour of duty, Dr. Fairman recovered “my sense of service, duty, and mission.” Between 2007 and 2014, 177 SVS members participated, with 28 members performing multiple tours of duty. “Talk about making it personal and commitment to service!” he said.
Dr. Fairman also discussed his efforts at Penn to discuss the financial component of worth and service, in advance of his address. The exercise was illuminating. “For every dollar we primarily generate on the inpatient side, at least another dollar is generated for other services,” he said.
He also highlighted many Society achievements and initiatives, including:
- An emphasis on quality outcomes; communicating the value of membership; practice guidelines, government relations work, and increased collaboration with other organizations.
- The relevance and value of VAM.
- A new initiative with the American College of Surgeons, the Vascular Validation Project, to create Vascular Centers of Excellence. “This will be of vital importance to the future success of our specialty and you will hear more about this over the next year,” he promised.
- Efforts for the SVS to support members who increasingly practice in outpatient centers.
- Alignment around “advocacy, practice, education, the vascular team and you, our membership.”
- Integrating community-practice members into the SVS leadership and governance.
He ended with “pearls” of advice for the younger audience, including considering their careers as a sprint, not a marathon. Collaborate when possible, but retain ownership. Don’t be afraid to make career changes and fail. Remain flexible, reinvent yourself. Don’t flip out too often (which elicited a laugh from attendees). Retain professional passion. Start new programs. Become a mentor. Remember the mission is to serve patients.
“But above all else, keep your eye on the prize, those things that keep you human and grounded and help you maintain your humility,” he said. “You will make it highly personal and you will make a difference to your patients through a career of service.”
Paraphrasing U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm’s quote that “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth,” he applied it to vascular surgeons, who have a purpose to serve patients. “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of patient care. It is deeply personal,” he said.
“Colleagues, thank you for allowing me to be your president this past year,” he concluded. “In this highly dangerous and volatile world, may God bless all of us and our mission to our patients.”
Ronald M. Fairman, MD, held center stage Friday to present his presidential address, highlighting the personal side of vascular surgery and a career of service.
After acknowledging his family, friends, mentors, the international surgeon community, and his “family” at the University of Pennsylvania, he took the audience on “an abbreviated journey” to share events he hoped would resonate.
“Yes, it is true I was born at Penn and I am still there,” he joked. A rotation on the Penn Vascular Service led him to vascular surgery. “I was drawn to many aspects of the specialty: really sick patients, the opportunity to do tons of surgery, fast pace, the engagement of the faculty” and more.
He started his own private practice after his fellowship. With hard work and a 24/7 schedule, he built a large practice with staff, incorporated and began running a business. Feeling good about his contributions to his hospital, he requested new imaging equipment. The request was denied, with the CFO telling Dr. Fairman, “you are a financial loser for our hospital,” because length of stay for his ruptured AAA patients was much longer than the national average. “I was a loser because my patients were surviving,” he said, astonished that this CFO didn’t understand this. He told the CFO, “If I am a financial loser, I’m outa here. … This was personal and yes, I got the equipment for our vascular lab.”
He told several patient stories, including that of one who nearly died, but whose wife refused to let Dr. Fairman give up on. Complications arose from a left-behind sponge and Dr. Fairman ultimately had to operate again. He told the couple a large settlement would certainly be theirs if they sued, which they refused to do. Indeed they sent Christmas cards for years. “This was personal,” Dr. Fairman said.
In the 1990s, with health care changing, he decided he needed to re-create his career. He returned to Penn; hospital officials, – who “had discovered I wasn’t a financial loser after all” – were not happy. And patients followed him. “It was personal and I provided a valued service,” he said.
He took advantage of a new emphasis on clinical trials that allowed researchers to advance endovascular aortic and carotid therapies, among others, and the division became nationally recognized. The specialty became interesting to him again.
A 2007 malpractice case brought him low. During this self-described “dark time,” SVS member Dr. David Gillespie put together a volunteer program to send members to Landstuhl, Germany, to provided additional vascular support for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result of his inspiring two-week tour of duty, Dr. Fairman recovered “my sense of service, duty, and mission.” Between 2007 and 2014, 177 SVS members participated, with 28 members performing multiple tours of duty. “Talk about making it personal and commitment to service!” he said.
Dr. Fairman also discussed his efforts at Penn to discuss the financial component of worth and service, in advance of his address. The exercise was illuminating. “For every dollar we primarily generate on the inpatient side, at least another dollar is generated for other services,” he said.
He also highlighted many Society achievements and initiatives, including:
- An emphasis on quality outcomes; communicating the value of membership; practice guidelines, government relations work, and increased collaboration with other organizations.
- The relevance and value of VAM.
- A new initiative with the American College of Surgeons, the Vascular Validation Project, to create Vascular Centers of Excellence. “This will be of vital importance to the future success of our specialty and you will hear more about this over the next year,” he promised.
- Efforts for the SVS to support members who increasingly practice in outpatient centers.
- Alignment around “advocacy, practice, education, the vascular team and you, our membership.”
- Integrating community-practice members into the SVS leadership and governance.
He ended with “pearls” of advice for the younger audience, including considering their careers as a sprint, not a marathon. Collaborate when possible, but retain ownership. Don’t be afraid to make career changes and fail. Remain flexible, reinvent yourself. Don’t flip out too often (which elicited a laugh from attendees). Retain professional passion. Start new programs. Become a mentor. Remember the mission is to serve patients.
“But above all else, keep your eye on the prize, those things that keep you human and grounded and help you maintain your humility,” he said. “You will make it highly personal and you will make a difference to your patients through a career of service.”
Paraphrasing U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm’s quote that “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth,” he applied it to vascular surgeons, who have a purpose to serve patients. “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of patient care. It is deeply personal,” he said.
“Colleagues, thank you for allowing me to be your president this past year,” he concluded. “In this highly dangerous and volatile world, may God bless all of us and our mission to our patients.”
Session to Spotlight Key Research Papers
VAM attendees have the opportunity to learn about several medical journal articles of relevance to their vascular surgery practice during a session on Saturday.
Entitled “Beyond the Journal of Vascular Surgery: ‘Top Ten’ Papers Relevant to Vascular Surgery,” the session “serves to inform VAM attendees on important literature outside of our core vascular surgery journals that might be missed in a busy practice,” said session co-moderator Ellen Dillavou, MD, a vascular surgeon in the department of surgery at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. “Additionally, the articles are discussed by experts in our field, providing a clinical context for interpretation.”
The session’s other co-moderator is Jon S. Matsumura, MD, professor and chairman of the division of vascular surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wis.
The moderators reported having no financial disclosures.
Saturday, June 3
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
SDCC, Room 6 A/B
F2: Beyond the Journal of Vascular Surgery: “Top Ten” Papers Relevant to Vascular Surgery
VAM attendees have the opportunity to learn about several medical journal articles of relevance to their vascular surgery practice during a session on Saturday.
Entitled “Beyond the Journal of Vascular Surgery: ‘Top Ten’ Papers Relevant to Vascular Surgery,” the session “serves to inform VAM attendees on important literature outside of our core vascular surgery journals that might be missed in a busy practice,” said session co-moderator Ellen Dillavou, MD, a vascular surgeon in the department of surgery at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. “Additionally, the articles are discussed by experts in our field, providing a clinical context for interpretation.”
The session’s other co-moderator is Jon S. Matsumura, MD, professor and chairman of the division of vascular surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wis.
The moderators reported having no financial disclosures.
Saturday, June 3
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
SDCC, Room 6 A/B
F2: Beyond the Journal of Vascular Surgery: “Top Ten” Papers Relevant to Vascular Surgery
VAM attendees have the opportunity to learn about several medical journal articles of relevance to their vascular surgery practice during a session on Saturday.
Entitled “Beyond the Journal of Vascular Surgery: ‘Top Ten’ Papers Relevant to Vascular Surgery,” the session “serves to inform VAM attendees on important literature outside of our core vascular surgery journals that might be missed in a busy practice,” said session co-moderator Ellen Dillavou, MD, a vascular surgeon in the department of surgery at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. “Additionally, the articles are discussed by experts in our field, providing a clinical context for interpretation.”
The session’s other co-moderator is Jon S. Matsumura, MD, professor and chairman of the division of vascular surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wis.
The moderators reported having no financial disclosures.
Saturday, June 3
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
SDCC, Room 6 A/B
F2: Beyond the Journal of Vascular Surgery: “Top Ten” Papers Relevant to Vascular Surgery
How the Team Approach Can Drive a High-Performance Vascular Practice
On Saturday, June 3, at 10:30 a.m., vascular surgeons and other members of the vascular care team will come together for a session entitled “Building the Vascular Team – Evolving Collaboration of Surgeons and Nurses.”
This session, run jointly by the Society for Vascular Surgery and the Society for Vascular Nursing, will offer attendees “advice and information about how best to value your team, form your team, educate your team, and utilize your team,” said co-moderator Kellie R. Brown, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Yaron Sternbach, MD, and Marie Rossi, RN, BS, both of The Vascular Group, PLLC, in Albany, N. Y., will give the physician and the nursing perspective on “Defining the High-Performing Vascular Practice,” with an emphasis on forming and maintaining a high-performing team, said Dr. Brown.
In turn, Dr. Brown and co-moderator Tiffany K. Street, MSN, ACNP-BC, of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing will give the physician and the advanced practice provider’s perspective on integrating advanced practice providers into a vascular practice.
Dr. Brown said that a vascular surgeon can really benefit from understanding “how best to have the nursing and advanced practice members of your team really work to the top of their licenses.” This, she said, is when a high-performance vascular team really starts working well: “You have a whole team contributing to the care of the patient. The surgeon’s doing surgery, the nurse is doing nursing, and the advanced practice providers are complementing the surgeon’s work in pre- and post-op care.”
Ms. Street agreed. “From a physician’s perspective, we all have unique roles and all have something to contribute toward the care of the patient. How do we get the right people in the right positions, doing the right type of work?” This, she said, will be a key take-away from the session.
Ms. Rossi, also a co-moderator, will speak in more detail about vascular specialty nursing, in a session entitled, “The Case for Vascular Specialty Nursing: What We Know and What Remains to be Clarified.” In another session, attendees will hear from Kathy Rich, PhD, a vascular nurse in Chesterton, Ind. Dr. Rich sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Vascular Nursing; her presentation is entitled “Expanding the Knowledge Base: Training Paradigms in Vascular Nursing.”
The morning’s presentations will be rounded out by Ms. Street, who will give a nuts-and-bolts presentation entitled, “Integrating Nursing Roles into Daily Practice.” Here, she plans to touch on some of the realities of creating and maintaining a high-performing vascular team. These include scope of practice, competencies, compliance, and billing perspectives, all of which can be perceived hurdles to integrating nurse specialists and advanced practice providers into a vascular practice.
Ms. Street will also provide information about potential career paths within vascular nursing in a presentation entitled “Careers in Vascular Nursing: Opportunities for Growth.”
The joint session, said Dr. Brown, represents “an exciting direction” for the Society for Vascular Surgery. “There will be more opportunities for collaboration between individuals in our two career paths,” as the use of advanced practice providers and specialty nurses grows within vascular surgery.
Ms. Street agreed, adding that the team approach doesn’t negate the surgeon’s role. “Surgery can’t be surgery without surgeons. It’s just about using people in the right positions to take the best care of patients,” she said.
Dr. Brown said that the goal of the team approach in vascular surgery is to achieve both high-quality and efficient care; reaching this mark is an especially relevant goal today, since “the need is going to keep rising, and we can’t train vascular surgeons fast enough,” she said. The team approach is a way to have the vascular surgeon care for more patients as demand soars. “In this era of declining reimbursement, we all need to be more efficient,” said Dr. Brown.
Dr. Brown reported being an investigator for the LEOPARD trial. Ms. Street reported no relevant financial relationships.
Saturday, June 3
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. SDCC, Room 3
C13: Building the Vascular Team
On Saturday, June 3, at 10:30 a.m., vascular surgeons and other members of the vascular care team will come together for a session entitled “Building the Vascular Team – Evolving Collaboration of Surgeons and Nurses.”
This session, run jointly by the Society for Vascular Surgery and the Society for Vascular Nursing, will offer attendees “advice and information about how best to value your team, form your team, educate your team, and utilize your team,” said co-moderator Kellie R. Brown, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Yaron Sternbach, MD, and Marie Rossi, RN, BS, both of The Vascular Group, PLLC, in Albany, N. Y., will give the physician and the nursing perspective on “Defining the High-Performing Vascular Practice,” with an emphasis on forming and maintaining a high-performing team, said Dr. Brown.
In turn, Dr. Brown and co-moderator Tiffany K. Street, MSN, ACNP-BC, of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing will give the physician and the advanced practice provider’s perspective on integrating advanced practice providers into a vascular practice.
Dr. Brown said that a vascular surgeon can really benefit from understanding “how best to have the nursing and advanced practice members of your team really work to the top of their licenses.” This, she said, is when a high-performance vascular team really starts working well: “You have a whole team contributing to the care of the patient. The surgeon’s doing surgery, the nurse is doing nursing, and the advanced practice providers are complementing the surgeon’s work in pre- and post-op care.”
Ms. Street agreed. “From a physician’s perspective, we all have unique roles and all have something to contribute toward the care of the patient. How do we get the right people in the right positions, doing the right type of work?” This, she said, will be a key take-away from the session.
Ms. Rossi, also a co-moderator, will speak in more detail about vascular specialty nursing, in a session entitled, “The Case for Vascular Specialty Nursing: What We Know and What Remains to be Clarified.” In another session, attendees will hear from Kathy Rich, PhD, a vascular nurse in Chesterton, Ind. Dr. Rich sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Vascular Nursing; her presentation is entitled “Expanding the Knowledge Base: Training Paradigms in Vascular Nursing.”
The morning’s presentations will be rounded out by Ms. Street, who will give a nuts-and-bolts presentation entitled, “Integrating Nursing Roles into Daily Practice.” Here, she plans to touch on some of the realities of creating and maintaining a high-performing vascular team. These include scope of practice, competencies, compliance, and billing perspectives, all of which can be perceived hurdles to integrating nurse specialists and advanced practice providers into a vascular practice.
Ms. Street will also provide information about potential career paths within vascular nursing in a presentation entitled “Careers in Vascular Nursing: Opportunities for Growth.”
The joint session, said Dr. Brown, represents “an exciting direction” for the Society for Vascular Surgery. “There will be more opportunities for collaboration between individuals in our two career paths,” as the use of advanced practice providers and specialty nurses grows within vascular surgery.
Ms. Street agreed, adding that the team approach doesn’t negate the surgeon’s role. “Surgery can’t be surgery without surgeons. It’s just about using people in the right positions to take the best care of patients,” she said.
Dr. Brown said that the goal of the team approach in vascular surgery is to achieve both high-quality and efficient care; reaching this mark is an especially relevant goal today, since “the need is going to keep rising, and we can’t train vascular surgeons fast enough,” she said. The team approach is a way to have the vascular surgeon care for more patients as demand soars. “In this era of declining reimbursement, we all need to be more efficient,” said Dr. Brown.
Dr. Brown reported being an investigator for the LEOPARD trial. Ms. Street reported no relevant financial relationships.
Saturday, June 3
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. SDCC, Room 3
C13: Building the Vascular Team
On Saturday, June 3, at 10:30 a.m., vascular surgeons and other members of the vascular care team will come together for a session entitled “Building the Vascular Team – Evolving Collaboration of Surgeons and Nurses.”
This session, run jointly by the Society for Vascular Surgery and the Society for Vascular Nursing, will offer attendees “advice and information about how best to value your team, form your team, educate your team, and utilize your team,” said co-moderator Kellie R. Brown, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Yaron Sternbach, MD, and Marie Rossi, RN, BS, both of The Vascular Group, PLLC, in Albany, N. Y., will give the physician and the nursing perspective on “Defining the High-Performing Vascular Practice,” with an emphasis on forming and maintaining a high-performing team, said Dr. Brown.
In turn, Dr. Brown and co-moderator Tiffany K. Street, MSN, ACNP-BC, of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing will give the physician and the advanced practice provider’s perspective on integrating advanced practice providers into a vascular practice.
Dr. Brown said that a vascular surgeon can really benefit from understanding “how best to have the nursing and advanced practice members of your team really work to the top of their licenses.” This, she said, is when a high-performance vascular team really starts working well: “You have a whole team contributing to the care of the patient. The surgeon’s doing surgery, the nurse is doing nursing, and the advanced practice providers are complementing the surgeon’s work in pre- and post-op care.”
Ms. Street agreed. “From a physician’s perspective, we all have unique roles and all have something to contribute toward the care of the patient. How do we get the right people in the right positions, doing the right type of work?” This, she said, will be a key take-away from the session.
Ms. Rossi, also a co-moderator, will speak in more detail about vascular specialty nursing, in a session entitled, “The Case for Vascular Specialty Nursing: What We Know and What Remains to be Clarified.” In another session, attendees will hear from Kathy Rich, PhD, a vascular nurse in Chesterton, Ind. Dr. Rich sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Vascular Nursing; her presentation is entitled “Expanding the Knowledge Base: Training Paradigms in Vascular Nursing.”
The morning’s presentations will be rounded out by Ms. Street, who will give a nuts-and-bolts presentation entitled, “Integrating Nursing Roles into Daily Practice.” Here, she plans to touch on some of the realities of creating and maintaining a high-performing vascular team. These include scope of practice, competencies, compliance, and billing perspectives, all of which can be perceived hurdles to integrating nurse specialists and advanced practice providers into a vascular practice.
Ms. Street will also provide information about potential career paths within vascular nursing in a presentation entitled “Careers in Vascular Nursing: Opportunities for Growth.”
The joint session, said Dr. Brown, represents “an exciting direction” for the Society for Vascular Surgery. “There will be more opportunities for collaboration between individuals in our two career paths,” as the use of advanced practice providers and specialty nurses grows within vascular surgery.
Ms. Street agreed, adding that the team approach doesn’t negate the surgeon’s role. “Surgery can’t be surgery without surgeons. It’s just about using people in the right positions to take the best care of patients,” she said.
Dr. Brown said that the goal of the team approach in vascular surgery is to achieve both high-quality and efficient care; reaching this mark is an especially relevant goal today, since “the need is going to keep rising, and we can’t train vascular surgeons fast enough,” she said. The team approach is a way to have the vascular surgeon care for more patients as demand soars. “In this era of declining reimbursement, we all need to be more efficient,” said Dr. Brown.
Dr. Brown reported being an investigator for the LEOPARD trial. Ms. Street reported no relevant financial relationships.
Saturday, June 3
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. SDCC, Room 3
C13: Building the Vascular Team
Political Action Committee Reception Is Thursday
A meal and conversation with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. An existing relationship with Dr. Tom Price, now secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Working relationships with others in office who make national health care decisions affecting SVS members. Such benefits happen because of the SVS Political Action Committee.
The SVS PAC works for vascular surgeons – ONLY vascular surgeons – to ensure SVS access to U.S. representatives and senators to discuss issues that have a major impact on members and their patients. Contributions help elect or re-elect candidates who can be helpful with such issues.
The SVS PAC will hold a reception and “thank you” for those donors who have contributed to the PAC since Jan. 1, 2016. This includes donations received during the 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting.
The reception will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 1, in the La Costa Room at the Marriott Marquis.
Contributions are critically important to the future of members, their profession and their practices, PAC leaders say.
“A good offense – great advocacy – is the best defense when confronted with so many unknowns today,” said Carlo A. Dall’Olmo, former SVS PAC chair. “The challenges are obvious, and they are present on both sides of the aisle. … (contributions) to the SVS/PAC will allow us to advocate at every opportunity.”
Thursday, June 1
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Marriott Marquis, La Costa Room
South Tower, fourth floor
PAC Reception
A meal and conversation with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. An existing relationship with Dr. Tom Price, now secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Working relationships with others in office who make national health care decisions affecting SVS members. Such benefits happen because of the SVS Political Action Committee.
The SVS PAC works for vascular surgeons – ONLY vascular surgeons – to ensure SVS access to U.S. representatives and senators to discuss issues that have a major impact on members and their patients. Contributions help elect or re-elect candidates who can be helpful with such issues.
The SVS PAC will hold a reception and “thank you” for those donors who have contributed to the PAC since Jan. 1, 2016. This includes donations received during the 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting.
The reception will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 1, in the La Costa Room at the Marriott Marquis.
Contributions are critically important to the future of members, their profession and their practices, PAC leaders say.
“A good offense – great advocacy – is the best defense when confronted with so many unknowns today,” said Carlo A. Dall’Olmo, former SVS PAC chair. “The challenges are obvious, and they are present on both sides of the aisle. … (contributions) to the SVS/PAC will allow us to advocate at every opportunity.”
Thursday, June 1
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Marriott Marquis, La Costa Room
South Tower, fourth floor
PAC Reception
A meal and conversation with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. An existing relationship with Dr. Tom Price, now secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Working relationships with others in office who make national health care decisions affecting SVS members. Such benefits happen because of the SVS Political Action Committee.
The SVS PAC works for vascular surgeons – ONLY vascular surgeons – to ensure SVS access to U.S. representatives and senators to discuss issues that have a major impact on members and their patients. Contributions help elect or re-elect candidates who can be helpful with such issues.
The SVS PAC will hold a reception and “thank you” for those donors who have contributed to the PAC since Jan. 1, 2016. This includes donations received during the 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting.
The reception will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 1, in the La Costa Room at the Marriott Marquis.
Contributions are critically important to the future of members, their profession and their practices, PAC leaders say.
“A good offense – great advocacy – is the best defense when confronted with so many unknowns today,” said Carlo A. Dall’Olmo, former SVS PAC chair. “The challenges are obvious, and they are present on both sides of the aisle. … (contributions) to the SVS/PAC will allow us to advocate at every opportunity.”
Thursday, June 1
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Marriott Marquis, La Costa Room
South Tower, fourth floor
PAC Reception