SVM Newsletter
July 2009
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SVM 21st Scientific Sessions
6th Board Review Course
April 29-May 2, 2010
Intercontinental Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio USA
The Society for Vascular Medicine's 2010 Annual Meeting is the premier multidisciplinary educational event in vascular medicine. The meeting provides needed education and training through:
- Scientific Sessions that provide updates on current trends in vascular medicine, information on clinical trials and new treatment options for managing vascular disease
- The Vascular Medicine Board Review Course that provides a comprehensive knowledge base for those seeking certification as a vascular medicine or endovascular specialist
The SVM Annual Meeting exposes the vascular practitioner to the discoveries and trends in pharmacotherapy for preventing adverse vascular events; vascular and molecular imaging; endovascular intervention and devices; pathobiology of vascular diseases; as well as management of the associated medical disorders of metabolism and coagulation.
See photos from the 2009 Annual Meeting.
2009 Annual Meeting Slides
Access is available to meeting attendees only. SVM headquarters e-mailed the passwords to attendees on Friday, June 5. If you attended the meeting, click on these links:
Board Review Course Presentations
Scientific Sessions Slides
A Facelift for SVM's Web Site
You may have noticed some changes to the SVM home page this week. We have made some cosmetic changes to the home page but we are still sporting the same high-quality content that you've come to expect from SVM.
Take a look: www.vascularmed.org
Comment on Clinical Performance Meausres for PAD
The ACCF/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures invites you to review the draft ACCF/AHA/ACR/SCAI/SIR/SVM/SVN/SVS Clinical Performance Measures for Peripheral Artery Disease in Adults, which will be available for public comment from July 20 through Aug. 18, 2009. Click here for the draft document and comment form.
If you have any questions, contact Kay Conley at kconley@acc.org or +1-202-375-6275.
 SVM "We Circulate!" T-Shirts Now on Sale
on SVM Web Site
Vascular medicine has existed as a unique specialty for more than 60 years. Despite this long history, many health care providers and the public alike are largely unaware that specialists who diagnose and treat patients with arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases are available. Vascular diseases are the major causes of death and disability in the United States, affecting more than 25 million people.
Help spread the word by proudly wearing this "Vascular Medicine: We Circulate" T-shirt. Give them as gifts to your staff and colleagues.
Sizes available: medium, large, extra-large
Color: Navy
Order your T-shirt today.
 ICAVL Online Accreditation to Launch in August
The much anticipated ICAVL Online Accreditation application will be available in late August for use by laboratories when applying for accreditation or reaccreditation. The ICAVL (the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories) is pleased to make this innovative format available to the noninvasive vascular community as the Online Accreditation application greatly improves the application process.
New format is extremely user-friendly
- Online help is provided throughout the application.
- Most questions are linked to the related Standards.
- Progress of application completeness is tracked.
Application data is easily accessible
- Data is retained and can be worked on consistently between accreditation cycles.
- Accessible from any Internet-based computer (allows work from laboratory and other offsite locations such as home offices, etc.), by multiple users.
- Upon application completion, data is transmitted directly to the ICAVL.
All laboratories that have previously purchased the ICAVL Accreditation Materials will be provided free access to Online Accreditation; each laboratory will receive its personalized login and password information by mail in late August. For those purchasing the Accreditation Materials for the first time, ICAVL Online Accreditation will be available via an order form on www.icavl.org (from the Log In area in the right sidebar, select 'Create New Account').
The ICAVL will accept applications through Dec. 31, 2009, using either the previous ICAVL electronic application or the new online accreditation. However, all laboratories are strongly encouraged to begin utilizing the new Online Accreditation due to its many positive attributes and ease of use.
Laboratories with questions about the new Online Accreditation or the application process in general are encouraged to contact the ICAVL staff by phone at +1-800-838-2110, or by e-mail via the staff directory on the Web site.
SVM Job Bank
Looking for a new job? Visit the SVM Job Bank to view positions currently available in vascular medicine. New jobs are posted throughout the month. Sign up for Job Alerts and be informed automatically as relevant positions are advertised. Or post your resume for prospective employers to browse.
Employers, SVM's Job Bank is an easy-to-use, online posting service that allows you to set up and manage all of your job postings. Click here for more information.
Are you Linked In to SVM?
 SVM's Linked In group has reached the milestone of 100 members. We encourage all SVM members to participate in this group, which allows professional networking and communication between and among members.
Click here to learn more.
Society for Vascular Nursing Releases Patient Care Guideline Published in June Issue of Journal of Vascular Nursing
The Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) has released the first in a series of guidelines being developed that will focus on the nursing care of patients with vascular disease. Working as a collective group of experts, members of SVN have developed guidelines based on the latest available evidence supporting patient care, 2009 Clinical Practice Guideline for Patients Undergoing Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA), which appears in the June issue of the Journal of Vascular Nursing published by Elsevier.
The intent of the guideline is to improve outcomes for patients undergoing endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms and ensure continuity of care across the population. It addresses assessment, diagnostic studies, medications, interventions and education in preoperative, perioperative and postoperative care.
 Jay D. Coffman Young Investigator Awards
In honor of Jay D. Coffman (1928-2006), distinguished internist and researcher of vascular medicine and clinical cardiology, SVM sponsors an annual award in vascular medicine. Twenty-seven posters were accepted for display and five award finalists gave oral presentations at SVM's 20th Annual Scientific Sessions May 14 in Denver. Poster abstracts were published in the May 2009 issue of Vascular Medicine (Volume 14, No. 2).
First place was awarded to Michael Mestek, PhD, from the University of Colorado-Boulder for his presentation, "Influence of Abdominal Adiposity on Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation in Overweight and Obese Adults."
Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, from Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania garnered the second place award with his presentation, "Aspirin for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials."
Third place went to Owen MacEneaney, MS, from the University of Colorado-Boulder for his presentation, "Influence of Adiposity on Endothelial Progenitor Cell Function, Apoptosis and Telomere Length in Humans."
Other finalists included Firas Al Solaiman, MD, Malek Al-Hawwas, MD, and Esther Soo Hyun Kim, MD, all from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Vascular Medicine Journal News
 Vascular Medicine 2008 Impact Factor increases
Vascular Medicine has increased its Impact Factor for the third consecutive year. It is 1.736, an increase of more than 45 percent compared with last year.
Download these featured articles online now
All SVM members, as part of their membership, have access to Vascular Medicine, which publishes the latest research in vascular biology integrated with the practice of vascular medicine and vascular surgery along with timely reviews.
Click on each title to download the full text article immediately.
Original articles include:
National health care costs of peripheral arterial disease in the Medicare population
Alan T. Hirsch, Lacey Hartman, Robert J. Town, and Beth A. Virnig
Venous thromboembolism in women
Suman Rathbun
Endovascular therapy for critical limb ischemia
Salman A. Arain and Christopher J. White
Imaging of the carotid arteries: the role of duplex ultrasonography, magnetic resonance
arteriography, and computerized tomographic arteriography
Michael R. Jaff, Gregory V. Goldmakher, Michael H. Lev, and Javier M. Romero
Peripheral arterial disease and cognitive function
Snorri B. Rafnsson, Ian J. Deary, and F.G.R. Fowkes
Digital thermal monitoring of vascular function: a novel tool to improve cardiovascular risk assessment
Khawar M. Gul, Naser Ahmadi, Zhiying Wang, Craig Jamieson, Khurram Nasir, Ralph Metcalfe, Harvey S. Hecht, Craig J. Hartley, and Morteza Naghavi
Cell therapies for therapeutic angiogenesis: back to the bench
Daniel P. Sieveking and Martin K.C. Ng
Forthcoming featured articles:
Physical activity during daily life and brachial artery flow-mediated dilation in peripheral arterial disease
Laila Payvandi, Alan Dyer, David McPherson, Philip Ades, James Stein, Kiang Liu, Luigi Ferrucci, Michael H. Criqui, Jack M. Guralnik, Donald Lloyd-Jones, Melina R. Kibbe, Susan T. Liang, Bonnie Kane, William H. Pearce, Michael Verta, Walter J. McCarthy, Joseph R. Schneider, Adhir Shroff, Mary M McDermott
Efficacy of arm-ergometry versus treadmill exercise training to improve walking distance in patients with claudication
Diane Treat-Jacobson, Ulf G. Bronas, Arthur S. Leon
Visit http://www.vascularmed.org/members/scriptcontent/journal.cfm or click here and login with your member username and password to access all journal content online.
Publish your research in Vascular Medicine
Vascular Medicine is the official peer-reviewed journal of the SVM. ISI-ranked, Vascular Medicine is the international journal of vascular medicine comprising original research articles and reviews on vascular biology, epidemiology, diagnosis, medical treatment and interventions for vascular disease. For more information or to submit your manuscript online, click here.
Further reasons to submit your papers:
Fully Indexed and Ranked: Vascular Medicine is fully indexed and ranked in the Peripheral Vascular Disease category of the Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Journal Citation Reports®.
Publication on our award-winning online platform: Sage Journals Online (SJO), hosted by HighWire, has recently won the 2007 PSP Award for Excellence for Best Platform.
Visibility: Benefit from Vascular Medicine's extraordinarily high visibility, both on SAGE Journals Online and in print, to a multi-professional audience including many of your peers.
 Buy the Book
Look for the link to the SVM/Amazon bookstore on the SVM home page or click here to investigate. The featured books were selected from the SVM Board Review Course bibliography.
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