Society for Vascular Surgery Bylaws Changes Approved at 2007 Meeting

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The following proposed bylaws amendments were approved at the Society for Vascular Surgery Business Meeting Luncheon during the 2007 Vascular Annual Meeting:

Overview of Approved Bylaws Amendments

1. Addition to Society Objectives (Article II)

The following objective would be added: To further the development of vascular surgery as an independent specialty.

2. Change in Membership Categories (Article III, Sections 1-8)

Proposed bylaws amendments would expand the SVS membership categories as follows:

Active membership: North American vascular surgeons who have completed approved training programs, or who are certified in vascular surgery, or whose clinical practice is dedicated primarily to vascular surgery.
Candidate membership: physicians currently enrolled or accepted into accredited vascular surgery training programs.
Senior membership: fully retired vascular surgeons.
Associates: non-surgeon physicians with demonstrated active interest in field of vascular disease.
Affiliates: non-physicians with demonstrated active interest in field of vascular disease.
Honorary membership: granted to physicians who have achieved international prominence and who have contributed to the advancement of the vascular field.
International membership: physicians who qualify for active membership who reside outside North America.

3. Change in Nominating Committee (Article VIII, Section 1)

Proposed bylaws amendments would change the nominating committee as follows:
A fifth at-large member would be added to the nominating committee; this individual would be elected by the SVS membership.
The nominating committee annually would make a formal request for officer nominations from among the membership. The nominating committee would evaluate nominees from the membership, as well as their own nominees and submit one or more per office for election by the membership.
Officers would be elected by a simple majority of members present and voting, as currently specified in Article VI, Section 3.

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