SVM Committees
SVM has several committees that carry out different functions for the society. Among them are the following committees.
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Advanced Practice Provider Committee
The purpose of the Advanced Practice Provider (APP) committee will be to identify and provide input on issues of importance to APP members, work with other Society committees and task forces to develop programming relevant to APPs, expand awareness and engagement by APP members in the field of vascular medicine, work with the Membership Committee to lead APP recruitment efforts and identify and develop future SVM APP leaders.
Chair: Alexandra Moran Baird, RN, AGACNP, DNP, FSVM
Co Chair: Danielle Vlazny, PA-C, MS, FSVM
Ani Bagdasarian, MPH, MSN, RN, AGACNP-BC
Colleen Gowans, MSN, FNP-C, CNOR
Shelly Keller, APRN, CNP
Annette King, DNP, ANP- BC
Lindsay Kwong, DNP
Ann Luciano, ACNP-BC
Chris Owen, ACNP, RNFA
Nikki Phanyoraj Phanyoraj, MSN
Tamra Parker-davis, CNP
Debra Puffenberger, MSHS, PA-C, RVT, RDMS, RTR
Shavawn Ryan, PA-C
Jenna Sellers, DNP, MSN (FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC)
Diane Treat-Jacobson, PhD, RN, MSVM
Mackenzie van Loon MS, PA-C
Bylaws, Policies & Procedures Committee
Reviews and updates the Society’s bylaws, policies and procedures.
Imm. Past Chair: Diane Treat-Jacobson, PhD, RN, FSVM
Chair: Mary McDermott, MD, FSVM
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force
Advises on matters related to diversity, equity and inclusion as they apply to all Society functions, including membership, leadership, education, research, quality, clinical care and advocacy. Ensures that every member of the vascular medicine community has full opportunity to thrive in our environment.
Chair: Segun Osinbowale, MD, RPVI, FSVM
Carmel Celestin, MD, FSVM
Amanda Morrison, MD
Education Committee
Develops, evaluates and oversees all educational programming for the Society.
Chair: Andrew Dicks, MD, FSVM
Co-chair: Randy Ramcharitar, MS, MD, FSVM
Past Chair: Gaurav Parmar, MD, MPH, FSVM
Abdelrhman Abumoawad, MD
Anand Athavale, MD
Ahmad Awan, MD
Michael Bloch, MD, FSVM
Ana Casanegra, MD, MS, FSVM, RPVI
John Hornick, MD
Luke Kim, MD
Merrill Krolick, DO
Justin Morrison, MD, FSVM
Srinivas Nadadur, MD
Sivan Naveh, MD
Libby Orzel Orzel, PharmD
Shaker Qaqish, MD
Prateek Sharma, MD
Mounica Yanamandala, MD
Fellows/APP Course
Develops the Fellows/APP Course, selects faculty and conducts other business connected with the program.
APP Course Chair: Danielle Vlazny, PA-C, MS, FSVM
APP Course Co-Chair: Alexandra Baird Moran, RN, AGACNP, DNP, FSVM
Fellows Course Chair: Stanislav Henkin, MD, MPH, FSVM
Fellows Course Co-Chair: Kamal Gupta, MD, FSVM
Finance Committee
Maintains oversight of the Society’s income and expenses and plans and implements internal and external audits of financial information. Responsible for oversight of charitable contributions to the Society and fundraising campaigns on behalf of the Society.
Chair: Eric Secemsky, MD, MSc, RPVI, FSVM
Co-Chair: Robert McBane, MD, FSVM
Past President: Elizabeth Ratchford, MD, MPH, FSVM
Herbert Aronow, MD, MPH, MSVM
Marc Bonaca, MD, MPH, FSVM
Matthew Bunte, MD, MS, FSVM
Brett Carroll, MD, FSVM
Raghu Kolluri, MD, RVT, MSVM
Mitchell Weinberg, MD, MBA, FSVM
Marketing and Communications Committee
Develops overall marketing and communications strategy for the Society. Responsible for marketing and external communications, including through its website, email blasts and other social media channels. Communicates to Society membership and to other professional and lay audiences. Develops content for Vascular Medicine Journal Blue Pages and other professional communications.
Chair: Kevin Cohoon, DO, MSc, RPVI, FSVM
Co-Chair: Sneha Thomas, MD
Marc Bonaca, MD, MPH, FSVM
Nichole Brunton, DO
Carmel Celestin, MD, FSVM
Valerie Clark
Devanshi Damani, MD
Vasavi Rakesh Gorantla, PhD
Stanislav Henkin, MD, MPH, FSVM
Deborah Hornacek, MD, RPVI, FSVM
Nay Htyte, MD, MSc., RPVI, FACC, FSVM, FSCAI
Aditi Malhotra, MD, DABVLM, DABVM, RPVI, FSVM
Gaurav Parmar, MD, MPH, FSVM
Mateo Porres-Aguilar, MD, FSVM
Membership & Credentials Committee
Develops and implements strategies and programs to encourage membership in the Society. Reviews credentials of new applicants to the Society and recommends appropriate membership category.
Chair/BOT: Daniella Kadian-Dodov, MD, FSVM
Co-Chair: R. Eugene Zierler, MD, FSVM
Leili Behrooz, MD, MPH
Ana Casanegra, MD, MS, FSVM, RPVI
Morteza Chitsazan, DO, FACP, FSVM
Abdelsalam Elshaikh, MD
Alejandro Godoy, MD
Nkechinyere Ijioma, MBBS
Ryan Mays, PhD, MPH, FSVM
Nikki Phanyoraj Phanyoraj, MSN
Leben Tefera, MD, FSVM
Rebecca Young, MSN, RN
Next Generation Committee
Identifies and provides input on issues of importance to Fellow-In-Training and Early Career member segments. Works with other Society committees to develop programming relevant to these member segments. Works to expand awareness about the field of vascular medicine in medical schools and post-graduate training programs. Aims to develop future SVM leadership from within these member segments.
Chair: Alexandra Solomon, MD, RPVI
Co-Chair: Yulanka Castro-Dominguez, MD, RPVI, FSVM
Aaron Aday, MBBS, RPVI, FSVM
Fahad Alkhalfan, MD, MPH
Syed Bukhari, MD
Coby (Jacob) Grand, MD, RPVI
Anthony Klappa, MD
Gayatri Suresh Kumar, MD
Milad Matta, MD
Amanda Morrison, MD
Shiavax Rao, MD
Ivka Stimach, MS, DO
Alexander Sullivan, MD, MSCI
Sneha Thomas, MD, FSVM
Francisco Ujueta, MD, MS
Nominating Committee
The committee shall solicit suggestions from members of the Society and the board. This committee shall recommend for nomination one qualified, interested and committed individual for each board position to be vacant at the next election. The committee shall also make recommendations to the board as to the types of awards or honor or appreciation to be granted by the Society, the standards thereof, and the procedures for selection of the recipients and the granting thereof.
Chair: Elizabeth Ratchford MD, MPH, FSVM
President Esther Kim MD, FSVM
President-Elect Aditya Sharma MD, MSc, MHA, FSVM
FSVM Member TBD
Past Presidents’ Council
The Past Presidents’ Council provides input to the President and the SVM Board of Trustees on matters related to governance, fundraising, intersocietal relations, and strategic planning. The committee may be charged with specific tasks or projects as directed by the President and Board of Trustees.
Chair/BOT: Elizabeth Ratchford, MD, MPH, FSVM
Herbert Aronow, MD, MPH, MSVM
J. Michael Bacharach, MD, MPH, MSVM
John R. Bartholomew, MD, MSVM
Joshua Beckman, MD, MS, MSVM
John Cooke, MD, PhD, MSVM
Mark Creager, MD, MSVM
James Froehlich, MD, MPH, MSVM
Heather Gornik, MD, RVT, RPVI, MSVM
Jonathan Halperin, MD, MSVM
Michael Jaff, DO, MSVM
Raghu Kolluri, MD, RVT, MSVM
Jeffrey Olin, DO, MSVM
Thom Rooke, MD, MSVM
Research, Quality & Publications Committee
Is responsible for developing position statements, practice guidelines and other clinical documents. Is responsible for proposing and vetting proposals and implementing programs that foster research in vascular medicine and biology and for developing and maintaining programs around quality improvement in the vascular space. Reviews document endorsement requests from other professional societies and organizations.
Chair: Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA, MHS
Co-Chair: Sanjum Sethi, MD, MPH
Naomi Hamburg, MD, MS, MSVM
William Bennett, MD, PhD
Behnood Bikdeli, MD, MS, FSVM
Ulf Bronas, PhD, FSVM
Saurav Chatterjee, MD, FSVM
Islam Elgendy, MD, FSVM
Shea Hogan, MD, FSVM
Damon Houghton, MD, MS
Elizabeth Jackson, MD, MPH, MBA
Aleksan Khachatryan, MD
Manoj Kumar, MD
Wenzhu Li, MD, FSVM
Carlos Mena-Hurtado, MD, FSVM
Debabrata Mukherjee, MD, FSVM
Valentine Nriagu, MD, MPH
Arvind Pandey, MD
Kevin Rogers, MD, MSc, RPVI, FSVM
Prateek Sharma, MD
Sneha Thomas, MD
Aditi Ujjawal, MD
Francisco Ujueta, MD,MS
Patrick Vera Cruz, MD, FPCP
Mingzhu (Mary) Yan, MD, PhD, RPVI,RVT
Farina Yusoff, MBBS, PhD, FSVM
Scientific Program Committee
Develops the annual scientific sessions program, selects faculty and conducts other business connected with the program.
Chair/BOT: Aditya Sharma, MD, FSVM
Ex officio: Esther Kim, MD, MSc, MHA, FSVM
Ex officio: Elizabeth Ratchford, MD, MSc, MHA, FSVM
Ex officio: Herb Aronow, MD, MPH, FSVM
Ex officio: Heather Gornik, MD, RVT, RPVI, MSVM
Aaron Aday, MD, FSVM
Vikas Aggarwal, MD, MPH
G. Jay Bishop, MD, FSVM
Nichole Brunton, DO
Brett Carroll, MD, FSVM
Ana Casanegra, MD, MS, RPVI, FSVM
Robert Eberhardt, MD, FSVM
Natalia Fendrikova Mahlay, MD, FSVM
Eri Fukaya, MD, FSVM
Kamal Gupta, MD, FSVM
Stan Henkin, MD, MPH, FSVM
Shea Hogan, MD, FSVM
Yogen Kanthi, MD, FSVM
Vladimir Lakhter, DO, FSVM
Nicholas Leeper, MD, FSVM
Ryan Mays, PhD, MPH, FSVM
Robert McBane, MS, MSVM
Mary McDermott, MD, FSVM
Michael (Sean) McMurtry, MD, PhD, FSVM
Justin Morrison, MD, FSVM
Amanda Morrison, MD
Khusrow Niazi, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FSVM
Andrea Obi, MD, RPVI
Arvind Pandey, MD
Gaurav Parmar, MD, MPH, FSVM
Sasan Partovi, MD, FSVM
Greg Piazza, MD, MS, FSVM
Tammy Polonsky, MD, MSCI
Maya Salameh, MD, MSVM
Sundeep Shenoy, MD, MBA, FSVM
Alex Sullivan, MD, MSCI
Luai Tabaza, MD, RPVI, FSVM
Leben Tefera, MD, FSVM
Alireza Vaziri, MD, RPVI, FSVM
Bryan Wells, MD, FSVM
R. Eugene Zierler, MD, RPVI, MSVM
Vascular Medicine Clinical Practice Committee
Surveys vascular medicine specialists and aggregates, analyzes and distributes survey data to relevant stakeholders.
Chair: Junyang Lou, MD, PhD, RPVI
Co-Chair/BOT: Member Jay Bishop, MD, FSVM
Azza Ahmed Ahmed, MD
Fernando Belcastro, MD, FSVM
Jessica Curcio, PA-C, FSVM
Gabriel Dimitrov, MD, FSVM
Mohamad El-Zaru, MD, RPVI, FSVM
Marie Gerhard-Herman, MD, MSVM
Salman Ghiasuddin, MD
Deborah Hornacek, MD, RPVI, FSVM
Hady Lichaa, MD, FSVM
Segun Osinbowale, MD, RPVI, FSVM
Manjunath Raju, MD, FSVM
Elisa Taffe, MD, CWSP, FSVM
Mounica Yanamandala, MD
Vascular Medicine Fellowship Training Committee
This committee is charged with monitoring the presence and size (i.e., number of training positions) of existing US vascular medicine (VM) fellowship training programs and with fostering the maintenance and growth of these programs. Additional responsibilities include development of VM fellowship training curricula, communication with VM fellowship program directors, assisting the BOT with solicitation of funding to support fellowship training (e.g., industry, donor-based) and establishment of endowments, and vetting of VM fellowship program funding applications.
Chair/BOT Member: Bryan Wells, MD, FSVM
Co-Chair: Kevin Rogers, MD, MSc, RPVI, FSVM
Robert Eberhardt, MD, FSVM
Eri Fukaya, MD, FSVM
Tapas Ghose, MD, FSVM
Naomi Hamburg, MD, MS, FSVM
Stan Henkin, MD, MPH, FSVM
Eugene Zierler, MD, FSVM
Vascular Medicine Subspecialty Recognition Task Force
The Task Force will identify opportunities for growth of the field of vascular medicine and provide guidance to the President and the SVM Board of Trustees regarding ongoing and future initiatives to achieve sub-specialty recognition for vascular medicine providers.
BOT Member: Heather Gornik, MD, RVT, RPVI, MSVM
Imm. Past Chair: Raghu Kolluri, MD, RVT, MSVM
Chair: Joshua Beckman, MD, MS, MSVM
Imm. Past Pres: Elizabeth Ratchford, MD, FSVM
President: Esther Kim, MD, FSVM
President-elect: Aditya Sharma, MD, MSc, MHA, FSVM
Aaron Aday, MBBS, RPVI, FSVM
Jay Bishop, MD, FSVM
Eri Fukaya, MD, FSVM
Bruce Gray, DO, MSVM
Geno Merli, MD, FSVM
Venous & Lymphatic Committee
Engages in clinical, quality, research, advocacy and other matters related to venous and lymphatic disease.
Chair: Syed Ahsan, MD, RPVI, FSVM
Co-Chair: Carlos Echevarria, MD
Eri Fukaya, MD, FSVM
Reza Amini, MD, FSVM
Anand Athavale, MBBS
Halbert Bai, MPH
Jessie Bjorklund, MD, MPH
Jasdeep Dalawari, MD, FSVM
Omar Esponda, MD, RPVI, RPhS
Nay Htyte, MD, MSc., RPVI, FACC, FSVM, FSCAI
Blake Iceton, MD, RVT, RPhS
Hillary Johnston-Cox, MD, PhD
Doug Joseph, DO, FSVM
Mina Makary, MD, FSVM
Adeeb Sebai, MD
Arthur Topoulos, MD, FSVM
Aditi Malhotra Yadav, MD, DABVLM, DABVM, RPVI, FSVM