PRESIDENTIAL CITATIONS TRAINING SVS ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING WITNESSES SLEW OF AWARDS

By Beth Bales

PART OF THE “BUSINESS” AT THE SVS ANNUAL Business Meeting at VAM includes a large number of honors and recognition. The list for 2023 honors features a slew of Presidential Citations, as each SVS president gets the opportunity to recognize service to the Society during the his or her term of service.

This year’s honorees are: Bernadette Aulivola, William Baker, Nilesh Balar, Bernard (Tim) Baxter, the late Dolores Cikrit, Dawn Coleman, Peter Connolly, William Flynn, Robert Kistner, Timothy Kresowik, Joann Lohr, Elna Masuda, Mark Mattos, Afshin Molkara, Peter Nelson, Vincent Rowe, Palma Shaw, Matthew Sideman, Michael Singh, Malachi Sheahan III and Sunita Srivastava. Learn more about these members’ contributions at vascular.org/PrezCitations23

Sheahan, Vascular Specialist medical editor, was recognized for his “dedication and wit” as editor-in-chief of the SVS monthly newspaper as well as its sister title, VS@VAM, the daily newspaper published at VAM.

The SVS Foundation Mentored Research Career Development Awards (K awards): This program has provided $13 million in funding to 45 vascular surgeon-scientists since 1999. The 2023 awardees are: Samir Shah, K23, University of Florida, for “Outcomes and perspectives on treatment for critical limb ischemia in patients with end-stage renal disease,” and Tammy Nguyen, K08 Award, co-sponsored by the American College of Surgeons, for “Dissecting the human diabetic bone marrow niche.”

Also honored was the 2022 K23 awardee, selected at VAM 2022 in Boston, Jesse Columbo, of Dartmouth Hitchcock

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Medical Center, for “Comparative effectiveness of procedures for carotid revascularization.”

The Clinical Research Seed Grant was awarded to Miranda Witheford, from the University of Toronto, “Deep learning models of aortic deformation after complex endovascular aneurysm repair to predict endograft failure.”

Distinguished Fellows: The 2023 SVS Distinguished Fellows are: Shipra Arya, Randall DeMartino, Caitlin Hicks, Jeffrey Jim, Grace Wang and Mohamed Zayed.

The Journal of Vascular Surgery presented “Reviewer of the Year” awards for four of its publications, JVS, JVS-Vascular and Lymphatic Disorders (JVS-VL), JVS Cases, Innovations and Techniques (JVS-CIT), and JVS-Vascular Science (JVS-VS) Recipients are:

● JVS: Michael Singh, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

● JVS-VL: Alvaro Orrego, MD, San Sebastian University, Viña del Mar, Chile

● JVS-CIT: Grayson Pitcher, MD, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

● JVS-VS: April Boyd, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

The Regional Society Political Action Committee Award: The Midwestern Vascular Surgery Society for the third straight year received this award for having the highest participation rate among the regional societies for contributions made in 2022.

Also honored were the five practices with 100% participation for contributions in 2023: Loyola University Medical Center, Indiana University Vascular Surgery, Nashville Vascular and Vein Institute, Midwest Aortic and Vascular Institute, and University of Massachusetts Vascular Surgery.