Abstract
Social media in medicine and medical societies is growing and changing daily. More health care professionals are communicating with peers, researchers, patients, and patient advocates via social media sources such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn in addition to direct web-based resources (such as www.vascularmed.org). The SVM website offers the opportunity for case presentations, interviews with society members on key topics, and always free member access to the journal Vascular Medicine.
The role of social media is ever-changing, but at a minimum it offers a way to immediately reach a colleague in Europe or the Philippines regarding a clinical topic, recent paper, or interest – and offers a great tool for a society such as SVM to promote our Annual Scientific Sessions or bring attention to underserved clinical problems. A hashtag (#) is used to further the social reach and/or highlight a key point, and makes a topic easily searched on social media like Twitter. For example,
SVM recently formed a Social Media Subcommittee to identify and optimize our society’s social reach to current and potential members as well as dialogue with like-minded societies. Chaired by Anne Albers, subcommittee members are Joddi Neff, Geoff Barnes, Aditya Sharma, Natalie Evans, Esther Kim, and Patricia Sullivan. The Social Media Subcommittee has drafted an initial charter in line with the mission of SVM and current SVM guidelines for online society representation.
Goals for the Social Media Subcommittee include growing SVM’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as considering Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, and some of the many other available venues. SVM members who are social or curious about opportunities on social media are invited to contribute. Our current social media channels are:
A coordinated social media presence has strength and brings information to many. The multi-society social media blast was organized this past April to promote the Vascular Medicine editorial summarizing PAD recommendations to the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) using
SVM meets the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)
On 5 April 2016 in Vancouver, Canada, members of SIR and SVM convened to review medical management of vascular disease in the SVM Meets SIR co-sponsored session. The meeting was coordinated by members of SIR and SVM, including Dr Alan Matsumoto and Dr Aditya Sharma from the University of Virginia and Dr Heather Gornik from the Cleveland Clinic. Five presentations were given by SVM members (see below). The presentations were well received and the meeting was a great opportunity for SIR and SVM to collaborate, and will hopefully lead to future collaborations.
Fibromuscular dysplasia: New insights from the US Registry for FMD and beyond (Heather Gornik, MD)
My tips for peri-procedural management in the setting of an elevated INR due to liver cirrhosis (Marcelo Gomes, MD)
Everything you need to know about the direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) including peri-procedural management (Geoffrey Barnes, MD)
Medical management of claudication and asymptomatic carotid artery disease (James Froehlich, MD)
Stem cell therapy in critical limb ischemia: The past, present and future (Surovi Hazarika, MBBS )
Left to right: Haraldur Bjarnason, Alan Matsumoto (SIR President), Marcelo Gomes, Thom Rooke (SVM Past President), Heather Gornik, Geoff Barnes, Surovi Hazarika, Jim Froehlich (SVM Past President), Fritz Angle (SIR Program Committee Chair).
Free resume posting and discounts on job ads
SVM members can post their resumes for free on the Job Bank and get a $100 discount when they post ads on the SVM Job Bank. Visit the SVM Job Bank at www.vascularmed.org/jobs to post your job and learn more.