The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has announced Linda Harris as its next vice president, meaning that she will become only the second woman president in the history of the SVS.
The announcement was made during the SVS Annual Business Meeting, held on 22 June in Chicago as part of the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM; 19–22 June, Chicago, USA).
The vice-presidential election process took place online, beginning in early June, and garnered some 867 SVS members who cast a ballot during the voting period.
Harris, a professor of surgery and the program director for the vascular surgery fellowship and residency programmes at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, USA, began her tenure as SVS vice president immediately following the announcement, and will serve in the role through to VAM 2025 in New Orleans, where she will become president-elect.
“I’m honored to have been elected as vice president with the chance to eventually become president of this amazing Society,” said Harris, a former president of the Eastern Vascular Society (EVS), after she was unveiled as the new vice president. “We have so much that we can really do if we work together; the threats that we face are primarily outside threats, and that’s why we need to come together.
“If we are fractured, we won’t succeed. We have so many bright minds and capable people. I want to engage everyone who would like to be involved. Anyone who has ideas, please feel free to reach out. We want to hear what you have to say because you’re part of us and we all have to work together.”
