Lifetime Achievement Award
The Society for Vascular Surgery® (SVS) Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor SVS bestows on one of its members. Selection for this honor recognizes an individual’s outstanding and sustained contributions to the profession, SVS, and their exemplary professional practice and leadership.

Medal for Innovation in Vascular Surgery
The SVS Medal for Innovation in Vascular Surgery honors individuals whose contribution has had a transforming impact on the practice or science of vascular surgery.

Women’s Leadership Training Grant
The SVS Women’s Leadership Committee periodically awards a women’s leadership training grant for female vascular surgeons, age 50 and under, who have been in practice a minimum of five years and a maximum of 15. 
  
International Scholars Program
Provides scholarships to qualified young vascular surgeons from countries other than the United States or Canada. The four scholarships, the amount of US$5,000 each, provide the scholars with an opportunity to participate in the Vascular Annual Meeting® and to visit clinical, teaching, and research facilities in the United States and Canada.

SVS/ACS Health Policy Scholarship
The American College of Surgeons and SVS offer an annual scholarship to subsidize attendance and participation in the Executive Leadership Program in Health Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Thecourse takes place June 1 - 7, 2011. The award is in the amount of US$8,000, to be used toward the cost of tuition, travel, housing, and subsistence during the period of the course. Contact Ms. Kate Early at 312-202-5281 or kearly@facs.org for more information.

SVS Vascular Surgery Trainee Advocacy Travel Scholarship
The primary purpose of the SVS Vascular Surgery Trainee Advocacy Travel Scholarship is to provide the recipient with an opportunity to attend the Fourth Annual ACS Joint Surgical Advocacy Conference (JSAC), held on March 27-29, 2011 in Washington D.C., and to enhance the health policy and advocacy development of the vascular surgery trainee’s career.

Updated April 2011