News from the SVS

The 2016 Vascular Annual Meeting photos are now available in our Flickr albums.

Since there were thousands and thousands of photos (we couldn’t even count them) chances are that if you attended VAM you are in at least one of them. If you won an award, your acceptance photo should be in the collection. All photos are large and high res, perfect for enlarging, printing and framing.

The photos are arranged by day, and within each day, by session.

Browse the photos here on Flickr, relive the memories, and be sure to type your name in the caption when you find your charming face.

The 2016 Vascular Annual Meeting photos are now available in our Flickr albums.

Since there were thousands and thousands of photos (we couldn’t even count them) chances are that if you attended VAM you are in at least one of them. If you won an award, your acceptance photo should be in the collection. All photos are large and high res, perfect for enlarging, printing and framing.

The photos are arranged by day, and within each day, by session.

Browse the photos here on Flickr, relive the memories, and be sure to type your name in the caption when you find your charming face.

The 2016 Vascular Annual Meeting photos are now available in our Flickr albums.

Since there were thousands and thousands of photos (we couldn’t even count them) chances are that if you attended VAM you are in at least one of them. If you won an award, your acceptance photo should be in the collection. All photos are large and high res, perfect for enlarging, printing and framing.

The photos are arranged by day, and within each day, by session.

Browse the photos here on Flickr, relive the memories, and be sure to type your name in the caption when you find your charming face.

The SVS Executive Committee, at its July retreat, approved the appointment of the chair of the SVS Community Practice Committee (currently Dr. Richard Lynn) as an interim ex officio member of the SVS Executive Committee. As part of the same change, Dr. Lynn also has been appointed to the Nominating Committee.

The SVS Executive Committee, at its July retreat, approved the appointment of the chair of the SVS Community Practice Committee (currently Dr. Richard Lynn) as an interim ex officio member of the SVS Executive Committee. As part of the same change, Dr. Lynn also has been appointed to the Nominating Committee.

The SVS Executive Committee, at its July retreat, approved the appointment of the chair of the SVS Community Practice Committee (currently Dr. Richard Lynn) as an interim ex officio member of the SVS Executive Committee. As part of the same change, Dr. Lynn also has been appointed to the Nominating Committee.

Want to re-visit the 2016 Vascular Annual Meeting, or view it for the first time?

The VAM On-Demand Library includes a wealth of useful information: 100+ audio and slide presentations of abstracts and papers, video recordings of plenaries and special sessions, lists of authors and faculty, links to information on CME credits and more.

The search feature helps locate all sessions related to a particular topic or speaker, and users can download the associated slide presentations. Best of all, these materials are available to refer to again and again.

Cost for this valuable educational resource is $199 for those who attended the annual meeting and $499 for non-attendees. (People who purchased the library before or during VAM were to receive their access codes on Aug. 3 -- remember to check spam or junk folders! -- in an email from the recording vendor, CadmiumCD.)

Contact the SVS Education Department with any questions. Access or purchase the On-Demand Library here.

Want to re-visit the 2016 Vascular Annual Meeting, or view it for the first time?

The VAM On-Demand Library includes a wealth of useful information: 100+ audio and slide presentations of abstracts and papers, video recordings of plenaries and special sessions, lists of authors and faculty, links to information on CME credits and more.

The search feature helps locate all sessions related to a particular topic or speaker, and users can download the associated slide presentations. Best of all, these materials are available to refer to again and again.

Cost for this valuable educational resource is $199 for those who attended the annual meeting and $499 for non-attendees. (People who purchased the library before or during VAM were to receive their access codes on Aug. 3 -- remember to check spam or junk folders! -- in an email from the recording vendor, CadmiumCD.)

Contact the SVS Education Department with any questions. Access or purchase the On-Demand Library here.

Want to re-visit the 2016 Vascular Annual Meeting, or view it for the first time?

The VAM On-Demand Library includes a wealth of useful information: 100+ audio and slide presentations of abstracts and papers, video recordings of plenaries and special sessions, lists of authors and faculty, links to information on CME credits and more.

The search feature helps locate all sessions related to a particular topic or speaker, and users can download the associated slide presentations. Best of all, these materials are available to refer to again and again.

Cost for this valuable educational resource is $199 for those who attended the annual meeting and $499 for non-attendees. (People who purchased the library before or during VAM were to receive their access codes on Aug. 3 -- remember to check spam or junk folders! -- in an email from the recording vendor, CadmiumCD.)

Contact the SVS Education Department with any questions. Access or purchase the On-Demand Library here.

Look ahead to next summer, and be sure to save the dates of May 31 to June 3 for the 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting. Plenaries and exhibits will be from June 1 to 3.

Next year’s meeting will take place at the San Diego Convention Center in sunny San Diego, Calif.

Make a note of it!

And for a list of the next five years of future VAMs click here.

Look ahead to next summer, and be sure to save the dates of May 31 to June 3 for the 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting. Plenaries and exhibits will be from June 1 to 3.

Next year’s meeting will take place at the San Diego Convention Center in sunny San Diego, Calif.

Make a note of it!

And for a list of the next five years of future VAMs click here.

Look ahead to next summer, and be sure to save the dates of May 31 to June 3 for the 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting. Plenaries and exhibits will be from June 1 to 3.

Next year’s meeting will take place at the San Diego Convention Center in sunny San Diego, Calif.

Make a note of it!

And for a list of the next five years of future VAMs click here.

Still haven’t claimed CME or MOC credits from the Vascular Annual Meeting?

Access the CME site via the 2016 VAM app or by visiting www.vsweb.org/ClaimCME. Provide either the registration ID number OR first and last names and the ZIP code used to register (either five- or nine-digit code). Follow the extensive directions to list sessions, provide evaluations, take exams and generate credit certificates.

Credits must be claimed by Dec. 31. For information or help, email [email protected].

Still haven’t claimed CME or MOC credits from the Vascular Annual Meeting?

Access the CME site via the 2016 VAM app or by visiting www.vsweb.org/ClaimCME. Provide either the registration ID number OR first and last names and the ZIP code used to register (either five- or nine-digit code). Follow the extensive directions to list sessions, provide evaluations, take exams and generate credit certificates.

Credits must be claimed by Dec. 31. For information or help, email [email protected].

Still haven’t claimed CME or MOC credits from the Vascular Annual Meeting?

Access the CME site via the 2016 VAM app or by visiting www.vsweb.org/ClaimCME. Provide either the registration ID number OR first and last names and the ZIP code used to register (either five- or nine-digit code). Follow the extensive directions to list sessions, provide evaluations, take exams and generate credit certificates.

Credits must be claimed by Dec. 31. For information or help, email [email protected].

To encourage adoption of the recent diabetic foot guideline, SVS has created a new educatonal slide set for members to use in their presentations.

The slideset is based on “The Management of the Diabetic Foot: A Clinical Practice Guideline by the Society for Vascular Surgery in Collaboration with the American Podiatric Medical Association and the Society for Vascular Medicine” published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery, February 2016 Supplement Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages 3S–21S

To get the slideset in PDF form, click here.

To encourage adoption of the recent diabetic foot guideline, SVS has created a new educatonal slide set for members to use in their presentations.

The slideset is based on “The Management of the Diabetic Foot: A Clinical Practice Guideline by the Society for Vascular Surgery in Collaboration with the American Podiatric Medical Association and the Society for Vascular Medicine” published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery, February 2016 Supplement Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages 3S–21S

To get the slideset in PDF form, click here.

To encourage adoption of the recent diabetic foot guideline, SVS has created a new educatonal slide set for members to use in their presentations.

The slideset is based on “The Management of the Diabetic Foot: A Clinical Practice Guideline by the Society for Vascular Surgery in Collaboration with the American Podiatric Medical Association and the Society for Vascular Medicine” published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery, February 2016 Supplement Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages 3S–21S

To get the slideset in PDF form, click here.

Registration is open for the “First Annual UCLA/SVS Symposium: A Comprehensive Review and Update of What’s New in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.”

The course will be Aug. 27 to 29 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., and will offer an in-depth review of our specialty for those preparing to take the vascular board examinations as well as providing the basic didactic education for the vascular residents and fellows in training.

Registration is open for the “First Annual UCLA/SVS Symposium: A Comprehensive Review and Update of What’s New in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.”

The course will be Aug. 27 to 29 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., and will offer an in-depth review of our specialty for those preparing to take the vascular board examinations as well as providing the basic didactic education for the vascular residents and fellows in training.

Registration is open for the “First Annual UCLA/SVS Symposium: A Comprehensive Review and Update of What’s New in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.”

The course will be Aug. 27 to 29 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., and will offer an in-depth review of our specialty for those preparing to take the vascular board examinations as well as providing the basic didactic education for the vascular residents and fellows in training.

The SVS Foundation has announced a new award opportunity, the Research Career Development Travel Awards, designed to support early-career vascular surgeons with an interest in basic science, translational or clinical research.

Applications for these awards are due Aug. 8.

In addition to $1,500 in financial support to attend an established research career development course, awardees also will be assigned an SVS research mentor to provide guidance and discuss academic career advancement, including other available resources and opportunities.

Learn more at the link above.

The SVS Foundation has announced a new award opportunity, the Research Career Development Travel Awards, designed to support early-career vascular surgeons with an interest in basic science, translational or clinical research.

Applications for these awards are due Aug. 8.

In addition to $1,500 in financial support to attend an established research career development course, awardees also will be assigned an SVS research mentor to provide guidance and discuss academic career advancement, including other available resources and opportunities.

Learn more at the link above.

The SVS Foundation has announced a new award opportunity, the Research Career Development Travel Awards, designed to support early-career vascular surgeons with an interest in basic science, translational or clinical research.

Applications for these awards are due Aug. 8.

In addition to $1,500 in financial support to attend an established research career development course, awardees also will be assigned an SVS research mentor to provide guidance and discuss academic career advancement, including other available resources and opportunities.

Learn more at the link above.

Registration is open for the Coding and Reimbursement Workshop, to be held Oct. 21-22, 2016, at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago.

The workshop addresses the 2016 updates, including changes to endovascular stent placement outside the lower extremity and PQRS as well as coding for intravascular embolization and retrograde intrathoracic carotid stenting.

The course also will focus on reporting standards for interventional and open surgical procedures, plus includes information about the global surgical package and how it impacts billing and reimbursement, along with the application of modifiers for streamlined reimbursement.

Learn more and register here.

Registration is open for the Coding and Reimbursement Workshop, to be held Oct. 21-22, 2016, at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago.

The workshop addresses the 2016 updates, including changes to endovascular stent placement outside the lower extremity and PQRS as well as coding for intravascular embolization and retrograde intrathoracic carotid stenting.

The course also will focus on reporting standards for interventional and open surgical procedures, plus includes information about the global surgical package and how it impacts billing and reimbursement, along with the application of modifiers for streamlined reimbursement.

Learn more and register here.

Registration is open for the Coding and Reimbursement Workshop, to be held Oct. 21-22, 2016, at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago.

The workshop addresses the 2016 updates, including changes to endovascular stent placement outside the lower extremity and PQRS as well as coding for intravascular embolization and retrograde intrathoracic carotid stenting.

The course also will focus on reporting standards for interventional and open surgical procedures, plus includes information about the global surgical package and how it impacts billing and reimbursement, along with the application of modifiers for streamlined reimbursement.

Learn more and register here.

Endovascular treatments are the focus

The Society for Vascular Surgery has released new reporting standards focused on endovascular treatment of chronic lower extremity peripheral artery disease.

Recommended reporting standards for lower extremity ischemia were last published by the SVS in 1997.

The variety of endovascular devices and techniques to treat occlusive disease has exploded over the past 10 years and critical evaluation of the reported results may be problematic.

This document clarifies and updates the 1997 standards, specifically for reports on endovascular treatment. The document is divided into sections: Claudication Reporting, Critical Limb Ischemia Reporting, Preintervention Assessment and Nonanatomic Treatment, Intervention, Outcome Measures – Procedural, Outcome Measures – Disease Specific and Complications.

The linked document provides a summary for reporting endovascular revascularization techniques in the setting of chronic disease, with much of it based on prior publications and SVS-proposed standards.

The document also should:

• Serve as a guide for the design of clinical trials

• Be a reference for journal editors and reviewers when considering scientific work pertaining to endovascular therapy for chronic lower extremity arterial disease.

Endovascular treatments are the focus

The Society for Vascular Surgery has released new reporting standards focused on endovascular treatment of chronic lower extremity peripheral artery disease.

Recommended reporting standards for lower extremity ischemia were last published by the SVS in 1997.

The variety of endovascular devices and techniques to treat occlusive disease has exploded over the past 10 years and critical evaluation of the reported results may be problematic.

This document clarifies and updates the 1997 standards, specifically for reports on endovascular treatment. The document is divided into sections: Claudication Reporting, Critical Limb Ischemia Reporting, Preintervention Assessment and Nonanatomic Treatment, Intervention, Outcome Measures – Procedural, Outcome Measures – Disease Specific and Complications.

The linked document provides a summary for reporting endovascular revascularization techniques in the setting of chronic disease, with much of it based on prior publications and SVS-proposed standards.

The document also should:

• Serve as a guide for the design of clinical trials

• Be a reference for journal editors and reviewers when considering scientific work pertaining to endovascular therapy for chronic lower extremity arterial disease.

Endovascular treatments are the focus

The Society for Vascular Surgery has released new reporting standards focused on endovascular treatment of chronic lower extremity peripheral artery disease.

Recommended reporting standards for lower extremity ischemia were last published by the SVS in 1997.

The variety of endovascular devices and techniques to treat occlusive disease has exploded over the past 10 years and critical evaluation of the reported results may be problematic.

This document clarifies and updates the 1997 standards, specifically for reports on endovascular treatment. The document is divided into sections: Claudication Reporting, Critical Limb Ischemia Reporting, Preintervention Assessment and Nonanatomic Treatment, Intervention, Outcome Measures – Procedural, Outcome Measures – Disease Specific and Complications.

The linked document provides a summary for reporting endovascular revascularization techniques in the setting of chronic disease, with much of it based on prior publications and SVS-proposed standards.

The document also should:

• Serve as a guide for the design of clinical trials

• Be a reference for journal editors and reviewers when considering scientific work pertaining to endovascular therapy for chronic lower extremity arterial disease.