Presidential address: The American Association for Vascular Surgery: A tradition of imagination, innovation, and change

TY - JOUR

T1 - Presidential address

T2 - The American Association for Vascular Surgery: A tradition of imagination, innovation, and change

AU - Pearce, William H.

N1 - Funding Information: In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, vascular surgery continued to grow with a new journal and a foundation to provide basic science research. In 1981, the Society would change its name for the second time to the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (ISCVS). The addition of the word “surgery” was to emphasize that the society now consisted of predominantly surgeons with few nonsurgeon members. Secondly, the combined societies chartered a new journal, The Journal of Vascular Surgery. The first editors, Drs Michael DeBakey and D. Emerick Szilagyi, established a tradition of excellence. Many members of the societies recognized that diseases of the peripheral circulation were largely ignored by medical colleagues and researchers. Therefore, vascular surgery developed a sophisticated research program to study the fundamental mechanisms of atherosclerosis, arterial aneurysms, and venous disease. The Joint Council at the suggestion of Calvin Ernst, MD, established the Lifeline Foundation in 1987. The Lifeline Foundation would raise funds to develop and foster basic science among young vascular surgeons. The Lifeline Foundation under the leadership of John Mannick, MD, this year's recipient of the AAVS Distinguished Service Award, created the National Institutes of Health/Lifeline K08 grant. The Lifeline Foundation also sponsors student research grants and traveling programs. Textbooks written by Haimovici, Callow, Rutherford, and Strandness consolidated and defined the knowledge base of the vascular surgeon. Thus, the third and fourth decades of our society were marked by proliferation of regional societies, expanded interest in basic science research, and improvement in training through certification of vascular surgeons. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2003/1/1

Y1 - 2003/1/1

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U2 - 10.1067/mva.2003.3

DO - 10.1067/mva.2003.3

M3 - Article

C2 - 12514571

AN - SCOPUS:0037280204

SN - 0741-5214

VL - 37

SP - 2

EP - 7

JO - Journal of Vascular Surgery

JF - Journal of Vascular Surgery

IS - 1

ER -