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AVF Pelvic Venous Disorders Summit: Patients and Policy

Sep 18, 2026
This inaugural AVF Pelvic Venous Disorders Summit opened with a patient's personal account of years of dismissed chronic pelv...
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13 min read

JOBST Grant at 30, a DVT Trial, and Two Memorials

Jul 17, 2026
The July and August issue marks 30 years of the AVF-JOBST Research Grant, which now provides 85,000 dollars over two years, w...
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14 min read

Vein Specialist: Upper Extremity DVT Guideline and VTE Recap

Apr 6, 2026
This issue introduces AVF's new Upper Extremity DVT guideline, which classifies the condition by etiology, vTOS-associated, c...
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9 min read

Vein Specialist: PeVD Summit, HHPF Missions, and More

Feb 23, 2026
This issue announces AVF's inaugural Pelvic Venous Disorders Summit in Chicago, honors Dr Steve Elias with the Sushruta Award...
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AVF Strandness Lecture: A History of the American Venous Forum

Feb 19, 2025
This year's Strandness keynote traces the American Venous Forum's history from its 1987 founding by a small group of venous s...
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VENOUS2025 Preview: Case Competition, Strandness Lecture, Awards

Jan 29, 2025
This January/February 2025 Vein Specialist issue opens with editor Steve Elias's tribute to the late Edgar Guzman and introdu...
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Member Spotlight: A Resident's Path Into Vascular Surgery

Dec 19, 2024
This issue features a Member Spotlight interview with Mennatalla Hegazi, MD, a general surgery resident at UC Irvine spending...
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6 min read

Member Spotlight: A Career of Global Phlebology Leadership

Oct 8, 2024
This issue features a Member Spotlight on Dr Alvaro Orrego Diaz, a Chilean vascular surgeon whose decades-long career spans l...
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Pulmonary Embolism Journal Club and Global AVF Outreach

Jul 29, 2024
This issue recaps AVF's Venous Journal Club webinar reviewing pulmonary embolism treatment evidence, including a real-world c...
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Vein Specialist Newsletter Introduces New AVF President

Apr 12, 2024
This issue's editor's letter uses the idea of bursting bubbles to reflect on AVF's best-attended annual meeting and the value...
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AVF Member Journeys, Patient Brochures, and Membership Benefits

Nov 17, 2023
This issue of Vein Specialist pairs two career journey essays: Kathleen Ozsvath describes building the first outpatient vein...
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Vein Specialist Newsletter Welcomes APPs and Profiles Researchers

Nov 17, 2023
This issue opens with an advanced practice provider's account of AVF broadening membership to include nurse practitioners and...
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Generative AI in Vascular Surgery and Building AVF Culture

Sep 22, 2023
This issue of Vein Specialist presents an interview style conversation with ChatGPT about generative artificial intelligence...
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18 min read

Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned: Venous Case Reports and Guidelines

Jul 11, 2023
This issue of Vein Specialist gathers personal case reports under the theme Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned. Dr Cees Wittens d...
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VENOUS2022 Recap: New President, Awards, and Global Ties

Mar 1, 2022
This March/April 2022 issue recaps VENOUS2022 in Orlando, introducing incoming AVF president Bill Marston and revisiting outg...
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Strandness Lecture: The Glycocalyx in Venous Disease and Beyond

Feb 26, 2022
This Eugene Strandness Memorial Lecture honored the ultrasound pioneer before Joseph Raffetto reviewed the endothelial glycoc...
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How COVID-19 Reshaped Vein Practices and Venous Care

May 1, 2021
This May 2021 issue of Vein Specialist gathers personal reflections from AVF members on how COVID-19 reshaped their practices...
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Faces of VENOUS2021: Award Winners and Session Recaps

Apr 1, 2021
The wrap-up issue for the first virtual annual meeting, which drew work from 34 countries and selected 44 abstracts for oral...
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Villavicencio Symposium: Horizons in Venous Disease Care

Mar 20, 2021
This Villavicencio Symposium honored founder Lionel Villavicencio and convened three expert panels on horizons in venous care...
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Strandness Lecture: Foam Sclerotherapy's Rise and Rise Again

Mar 19, 2021
This Strandness Memorial Lecture honored Professor Andrew Bradbury, who traced foam sclerotherapy from 1980s skepticism throu...
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Becoming a Great Peer Reviewer and the New JVS Internship

Mar 17, 2021
This talk on peer review described accepting an assignment only within one's expertise and free of conflicts of interest, the...
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Publishing Skills: Manuscript Writing, Review and Mentorship

Mar 17, 2021
This career development module opened with guidance on planning a manuscript before writing it, emphasizing a clear hypothesi...

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