2026-2029 SVM Strategic Plan

Community

SVM is a professional home where physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, researchers, and other professionals across the spectrum of vascular care find belonging, connection, and support.

• We welcome members regardless of specialty background, training pathway, or career stage. Our multidisciplinary membership is a strength, not a complication.
• We cultivate genuine relationships across career levels. Accessibility between senior and early-career members is not incidental – it is intentional.
• We believe that a society’s culture is felt before it is described. Members should experience belonging from their first encounter with SVM, whether at a meeting, through a mentorship connection, or online.

We will preserve and strengthen this community culture as we grow, recognizing that size does not have to diminish warmth, and that community can be operationalized through structure without losing its authenticity.

Excellence

SVM holds itself to the highest standard of quality in clinical care, education, research, and organizational conduct – and it expects the same of the field it represents.

• We define excellence broadly: in the care our members provide to patients, in the educational content we produce, in the rigor of the research we support, and in the credibility of the positions we take.
• We are committed to being trusted. What comes from SVM – a guideline, a statement, a webinar, a board certification – carries the weight of unbiased, evidence-informed expertise
• We do not settle for being credible when we can be excellent, and we do not accept excellence without credibility. Both standards apply.

Excellence is not a standard we apply to others – it begins with us.

Mentorship

SVM invests in the people who are building the future of vascular medicine, recognizing their importance in the sustainability of the field.

• Mentorship within SVM is a behavior, not just a program. It happens in hallway conversations, in committee work, in how past presidents remain engaged, and in how senior members make time for those who are still finding their way.
• We recognize that vascular medicine lacks formal specialty recognition, which makes mentorship more important, not less. Without a clear institutional pathway, people find their way into and through this field because someone guided them.
• We commit to making mentorship accessible to all members, not only those who are already embedded in leadership or located at major academic centers. The longitudinal mentorship program, speed mentoring, and new member orientation are starting points. We will expand and improve them.

Mentorship in SVM extends across dimensions of professional life – research development, career navigation, leadership, and community-building – and is available across career stages, including for advanced practice providers.

Scholarship

SVM advances knowledge in vascular medicine across its full expression – research, clinical guidelines, education, and innovation – and positions the Society as the field’s leading intellectual resource.

• Scholarship within SVM is not limited to academic publication. It includes the synthesis and dissemination of knowledge, the development of clinical standards, the generation of new evidence, and the education of the next generation.
• Not every member is a researcher, but every member benefits from scholarship and contributes to it. A clinician who applies guidelines rigorously, an educator who designs curriculum – all are part of a scholarly community.
• We are committed to building the evidence base that demonstrates the value of vascular medicine.

Innovation, discovery, and advancement are expressions of scholarship. When SVM members define a disease that was previously undefined, create a registry where none existed, or establish a standard of care where there was none, that is scholarship at its highest form.