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JULY 2024 Volume 20 Number 7
2G uest editorial Beyond private equity: A new sheriff in town
11 P hoto gallery VAM 2024 revisited: Through the lens
8W FVS Twin global burdens of growing PAD prevalence and vascular workforce shortfall demand action
15 Complex aortic New data on TAMBE outcomes in complex aortic aneurysms emerge
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GRASPING THE NETTLE: THE NEED TO TACKLE PAD PROBLEM HEAD ON IS HUGE, SAYS 2024 VEITH LECTURER
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By Bryan Kay
HUGE OPPORTUNITIES abound for vascular surgeons to take a leadership role on the frontlines of a developing peripheral arterial disease (PAD) treatment crisis in the U.S., says Michael Conte, MD, who gave the second annual Frank J. Veith Distinguished Lecture at VAM 2024. Conte, speaking on “The State of PAD Care in the U.S.,” called on vascular surgeons to take a leadership role amid great unmet need among a population who face a significant public problem during the talk in Chicago. “There are a lot of exciting developments, and vascular surgery really needs to seize the day to lead in the science, lead in the challenges; it’s core to what we do, it’s core to our patient population,” the professor and chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) told Vascular Specialist on the VAM 2024 sidelines. “I think it’s a really great time for vascular surgeons to get
A calling seeded in childhood: Uniting vascular surgery for the betterment of patient care By Bryan Kay
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any attending the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM; June 19–22) might have been unaware of the early life of 2023–24 Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Joseph Mills, MD. Amongst an intrepid childhood following his father’s career as a dentist, incoming SVS President Matthew Eagleton, MD, noted as he introduced Mills to give the 2024 Presidential Address in Chicago, Mills had spent a portion of his formative years growing up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. There, an elementary-school-aged Mills was one of only two non-Native American children in his class. That period of the Baylor School of Medicine in Houston professor and chief of vascular surgery planted a lifelong respect
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LINDA HARRIS ELECTED SVS VICE PRESIDENT By Marlén Gomez The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has announced Linda Harris, MD, as its next vice president, meaning that she enters the presidential line and will become SVS leader in 2026. The announcement was made during the SVS Annual Business Meeting, held on June 22 in Chicago as part of VAM 2024. The vice-presidential election process took place online,
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