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Welcome to a new feature of Vascular Medicine, and a new era for our journal! This issue marks the inauguration of the Society for Vascular Medicine (SVM) Communication Page in Vascular Medicine. While not all of our readers are members of the Society for Vascular Medicine, this journal serves as the official organ for the society, and this page will provide an excellent opportunity for members to keep up-to-date with society activities. This is a wonderful addition to the journal, and will no doubt contain things of interest to the entire vascular medicine community.
Of even more importance to both the journal and our society, this volume of Vascular Medicine marks the beginning of new leadership. We are privileged and delighted that Heather Gornik, MD, FSVM, has accepted the call to lead our journal into the 21st-century. As most of you know, Heather is the medical director of the Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory at the Heart and Vascular Institute of the Cleveland Clinic and a staff member in the Section of Vascular Medicine. She brings an international reputation for scientific research and clinical excellence in vascular medicine to her new position. She is the ideal candidate to take the journal to even greater success. More details of her accomplishments and goals can be found on the SVM website (http://www.vascularmed.org/about/svm-names-editor.cfm).
It is with significant debt and gratitude that we thank Mark Creager, MD, MSVM, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Vascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, for his seminal work founding the journal and guiding it to two decades of success. Our words of thanks are inadequate to this task, so we commit our future work to his legacy.
The Society for Vascular Medicine is the home for all clinicians and scientists interested in vascular research and the clinical care of patients with all forms of vascular disease. The time has never been better, nor the need greater, for this organization to bring together the best minds and research to promote the interests of our patients and our specialty. The journal Vascular Medicine, the Society for Vascular Medicine, and our readers will be the vanguard of the multidisciplinary treatment of vascular disease and vascular science in the 21st century. I hope all our readers enjoy this journey together in the coming years.
