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Announcing the SVM Mark A Creager Prize for Research Excellence
This annual award is given in recognition of Dr Mark A Creager to honor his 19 years of excellence as Editor-in-Chief of Vascular Medicine and more than 28 years of service to the Society, including service as SVM President from 1993 to 1995. The Creager Prize recognizes the authors of the most meritorious original research paper published in Vascular Medicine and will be given annually.
The Creager Prize winning manuscript will be selected from all original research articles published in Vascular Medicine during the preceding calendar year. A selection committee including the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and designated members of the Editorial Board will evaluate papers. The selection of the winning paper will be based upon assessment of scientific importance, novelty, and potential for impact in the field of vascular disease and vascular medicine.
Spring Networking Event – SVM at ACC
Pictured from top left clockwise: Alonso Alvaro, Redah Mahmood, Khendi White, Teresa Carman, Joe Lau, Naomi Hamburg, Heather Gornik, Brian Annex, John R (Jerry) Bartholomew, Imad Bagh, Scott Cameron, Georges Hajj, James (Jim) Froehlich, Geoffrey Barnes, Sunil Iyer, Aditya Sharma, Ashok Mittal, and Yogendra Kanthi. Not pictured: Kambiz Zorriasateyn.
Members of SVM who were attending the 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting, met for a Middle Eastern feast and networking opportunity on Friday, March 17th, at the Lebanese Taverna in Washington, DC. Participants included SVM leadership, senior FSVMs, and early career members from across the country. A few of the attendees reflected on the experience:
Geoffrey Barnes, MD, MSc, Clinical Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine and Vascular Medicine, University of Michigan Health System: I believe that fostering a strong vascular medicine community is central to SVM’s mission. The networking event in Washington, DC helped bring together vascular medicine specialists from across the country to maintain existing relationships and grow new ones (especially with trainees). It nicely complemented the wonderful opportunities we have at the annual SVM meeting to maintain these important friendships.
Scott Cameron, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry: It was useful in bringing together and allowing networking between diverse vascular medicine specialists who otherwise don’t have time to meet during the formality of a large conference with little ‘down time’.
Georges Hajj, MD, Interventional, Structural and Vascular Cardiologist, Assistant Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, UnityPoint Clinic – Heart and Vascular Institute, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The SVM networking dinner in Washington, DC was a wonderful opportunity for me to meet outstanding vascular medicine physicians from all over the nation. As a young physician in my early career days, mostly self-trained by strong motivation in the vascular medicine world, this event provided me with great connections with great leaders in the field, as well as other young early-career members that are now more than colleagues and more like friends. The Society for Vascular Medicine strikes me as a family of terrific providers, rather than just a society. I am truly proud to be part of this family and look forward to the SVM meeting in June … and the food was Lebanese, what’s not to like about that!
Khendi White, MD, Fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic: As a trainee new to the field of vascular medicine, it was an invaluable experience. This was my first time attending an SVM event, and I appreciate the opportunity to meet other vascular medicine specialists from leaders in the field to fellow trainees. I really liked the casual environment, which allowed us to mix and mingle with the other attendees. I am grateful for the many who took time to share their stories and words of wisdom. Overall, the networking event brought together a wonderful, diverse group of passionate, brilliant, and warm individuals … I felt truly honored to be in the midst of it.
SVM hopes to sponsor more of these informal networking opportunities for its members in the future.
Mark your calendar for the 2017 SVM Fellows Course
The Society for Vascular Medicine (SVM) Fellows Course is designed to provide a foundation in non-invasive vascular medicine including the treatment of arterial, venous, and lymphatic diseases to general cardiovascular, interventional, and surgical fellows (general cardiology, interventional cardiology, interventional vascular medicine, interventional radiology, and vascular surgery).
This course will be a resource that can prepare participants to properly identify, diagnose, and treat patients with vascular disease. See the SVM website at www.vascularmed.org/fellows for the schedule and more information about this great educational opportunity.
The course will be held on December 2–3, 2017, at the Westin Atlanta Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.
Course chairs, Ido Weinberg, MD, MSc, MHA, FSVM and Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, MPH, PhD, lead an outstanding faculty that includes many of the leaders in vascular medicine, as well as leaders of SVM. They include Herb Aronow, MD, MPH, FSVM, Geoff Barnes, MD, MSc, Josh Beckman, MD, MS, MSVM, Heather Gornik, MD, FSVM, Raghu Kolluri, MD, FSVM, Mahmood Razavi, MD, John Rundback, MD, FSVM, and Mitchell D Weinberg, MD.
Organizations wishing to support this course will find opportunities at three levels, including Silver, Gold, and Platinum levels. Visit www.vascularmed.org/fellows–support for more information.
For more information and to register, or to learn more about support opportunities, visit www.vascularmed.org/fellows or contact SVM Executive Director, Leslie Monahan at 847-686-2367 or