SVM Newsletter

April 2011

In this issue...

• 22nd Annual Scientific Sessions
• SVM Introduces New Advanced Practitioner and Vascular Care Team Member Categories -- for NPs, PAs, Nurses and more
• SVM is Looking for a Few Good Web Folks
• SVM's Job Bank
• Amazon Closes Bookstore
• SVM 2011 Election
• Vascular Medicine Journal
  

SVM Annual Meeting News

SVM 22nd Annual Scientific Sessions
June 2-4, 2011
Seaport Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Registration Discount ends May 19
Register today and save on your meeting registration.

Meeting Highlights

• Keynote Speaker Eugene Braunwald, MD, FRCP, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
  Session 9 -- Friday, June 3
• Special Speaker Elizabeth Nabel, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital
  Session 1 -- Thursday, June 2

Novel Anticoagulant Workshop
Saturday, June 4
8 a.m. to Noon
We are excited to present the Novel Anticoagulant Workshop during the SVM Annual Meeting. SVM has created this session to communicate the pharmacology, how the drugs should be used in venous thromboembolism and atrial fibrillation, the impact on hospital P&T committees and how the new agents will affect anticoagulation clinics. Read all about the workshop, including the full program and speakers. Physicians can earn CMEs and CEUs are available for pharmacists for this session. More information.
This workshop is available with your full meeting registration or you can register for just the workshop for $75.

Seaport Hotel
The beautiful Seaport Hotel is the site of all SVM 22nd Annual Meeting activities.

Make your hotel reservations online
Click this link to reserve your room for the SVM Annual Meeting. Make your reservation before May 1 to get the discount rate!

Exhibit Hall
Reach the leaders in vascular medicine.

Support Opportunities
Show your support for this growing field of medicine.

SVM Introduces New Member Categories

SVM has approved two New Member Categories, expanding its formal membership categories beyond the physician to welcome nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and others into SVM membership. The new categories are:

• Advanced Practitioner Members — includes individuals who have attained an advanced degree such as nurse practitioner, physician assistant, certified nurse specialist or equivalent. ($125)
• Vascular Care Team Members — includes nurses, ultrasonographers, radiology technicians (CT, MR), cardiac cath lab technologists or equivalent. ($90)

Advanced Practitioner and Vascular Care Team Members receive:

• Online access to Vascular Medicine, the journal of SVM.
• Active Web site, including the hot Case Study of the Month
• Reduced registration fees to annual meetings and educational programs.
• Quarterly newsletters
• SVM Job Bank — Employment listings that allow members to post and request job listings from across the nation.
• SVM Online Member Directory — members only.
• Women in Vascular Medicine Directory — opportunities for networking and professional growth for women in SVM.
• CME or CEU credit for participation in annual meetings and vascular review courses.
• Contact with the thought leaders in vascular medicine.

Through May 16, SVM members can recruit an advanced practitioner member or vascular care team member to SVM and save $25 off their annual meeting registration.

To take advantage of this special offer, just follow these easy steps:

1. The new member should complete the membership application form, noting the SVM Fellow or Doctorate member's name as sponsor (the line is at the top of the page). Click here for details and a link to the membership application form.
   
   Fax or mail the application form with payment.
   
   
2. To claim the reduced annual meeting registration fee for the sponsoring member, the SVM member should complete the annual meeting registration form. Note the new member's name and check the box that says you should receive $25 off your annual meeting registration. Click here for details and a link to the annual meeting registration form.
   
   Fax or mail the registration form with payment.

Rules and Restrictions:

• This offer is open to current SVM Fellow, Doctorate, Advanced Practitioner or Vascular Care Team members.
• New applicant must be a Doctorate, Advanced Practitioner or Vascular Care Team candidate.
• New applicant must meet all eligibility criteria.
• Full dues payment must be received with application on or by May 16.
• Current SVM member sponsor will receive $25 credit for annual meeting registration after receipt of new member application and payment is verified and registration form and payment for annual meeting is received. Although multiple referrals are encouraged, current members will be eligible for a single discount at a maximum of $25. All forms and payments must be received by May 16.

SVM is Looking for a Few Good Web Folks!

Make an impact on the field of vascular medicine through your contributions to SVM.

The position of Web site editor in addition to several committee slots will be open on June 1. The Web committee is responsible for the SVM Web site. Working with the SVM staff, the committee provides Web content, from their own library and through recruiting other SVM members and experts to provide content – and oversees that the appropriate infrastructure for SVM operations or activities is in place.

The Web site editor serves on board as Ex Officio member if not elected to the board.

The Web site editor, appointed by the president, and working with the IT staff, is responsible for

• Creating an overall vision for the Web site
• Chairing and populating a Web site committee capable of creating timely and relevant content for the SVM Web site consistent with the approved strategy and budget
• Working with SVM IT staff to determine and follow policy regarding Web links, Web content, and advertising/sponsorship that advances SVM’s mission and minimizes the Society’s risk and liability
• The Case Study of the Month, including recruiting authors and cases, inputting the case to the Web site, and approving cases submitted by outside authors
• Giving monthly reports to the board and annual report during the business session at the annual meeting

You and your team provide the ideas and direction and the SVM IT staff will do the design and development. For more information contact the SVM Headquarters today at info@vascularmed.org.

SVM Job Bank: The Right Candidates. Right Now.

Employees: Make the SVM Job Bank part of your employment search.

Your personal jobseeker account lets you:

• Find jobs
• Manage your resume
• Set up job alerts

Get started today!

Employers: Stop Sifting Through Resumes and CVs from the Wrong Candidates

The SVM Job Bank has the Right Candidates.

• The ones with solid experience in vascular medicine who understand what you need.
• The ones who have the right skills, the right outlook, the right insights.
• The ones looking for the right position to meet their needs professionally and personally.

Posting your jobs on SVM Job Bank means that the right candidates will see your ad. And, more importantly, the right candidates will respond to your ad.

And that saves you time and money.

Amazon Marketplace Now Closed

On March 20, 2011, the Illinois Legislature passed a law requiring residents of Illinois to pay sales taxes on all purchases made online. As a result of that new law, Amazon has discontinued its relationships with all affiliates based in Illinois, including SVM.

SVM 2011 Elections—Slate for 2011-2013

SVM will hold elections at its Annual Business Meeting for positions on the SVM Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. This year the following slate of candidates will be voted on:

Executive Committee Candidates
Nominee for president-elect — James B. Froehlich, MD, MPH
Nominee for secretary — Suman W. Rathbun, MD
Nominee for treasurer — Susan M. Begelman, MD

Nominees for Trustees
Diane J. Treat-Jacobson, RN, PhD
Bruce H. Gray, DO
Heather L. Gornik, MD
Raghu Kolluri, MD, RVT

Only SVM Fellow Members are eligible to vote.The election takes place during the Annual Business Meeting luncheon at the SVM Annual Meeting, Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 11:50 a.m.

Vascular Medicine Journal News

Access recent articles below with your membership: Lymphedema: classification, diagnosis and therapy Andrzej Szuba and Stanley G. Rockson

Critical limb ischemia: medical and surgical management
David Paul Slovut and Timothy M. Sullivan

Collagens in the progression and complications of atherosclerosis
Eser Adiguzel, Pamela J. Ahmad, Christopher Franco, and Michelle P. Bendeck

Vascular damage from smoking: disease mechanisms at the arterial wall
Janet T. Powell

How do I access these articles?

Visit http://www.vascularmed.org/members/scriptcontent/journal.cfmor click here and login with your member username and password to access all journal content online.

Submit Your Research and benefit from:

• A Fully Indexed and Ranked Journal: Vascular Medicine is fully indexed and ranked in the Peripheral Vascular Disease category of the Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Journal Citation Reports®.

• Rapid Publication - Online submission via SAGEtrack, powered by ScholarOne Manuscripts™ ensures rapid peer review and editorial decisions.

• Highly regarded editorial faculty of key researchers and physicians

• Access to Fellow Researchers in Vascular Medicine -- your paper will be in good company as readers of related journals on Highwire can link to the full-text of all cited and citing references.

Click here for Manuscript Submissions guidelines.