Goals of the Society for Vascular Surgery® (SVS) Vascular Surgery Trainee Section 

• Help foster a community of vascular surgery trainees
• Provide representation for vascular surgery trainees within the specialty and SVS
• Assist vascular surgery trainees in developing leadership skills
• Improve SVS' activities for vascular surgery trainees

How to Become a Member

Vascular surgery trainees automatically become members of the SVS Vascular Trainee Section when they are approved as SVS Candidate Members. Members of the section are limited to those Candidate members currently enrolled or accepted into accredited vascular surgery residency training programs in the United States or Canada. They will remain section members until their training is completed. Candidate membership applications are accepted on a continuous, rolling basis.

Vascular Surgery Trainee Section Governing Council

The section's activities are overseen by a seven-member Governing Council that is elected by the section's members. The Governing Council is responsible for carrying out policies and action items adopted by the section as well as directing its agenda and strategies.

2011-2012 SVS Vascular Surgery Trainee Section Governing Council

• Chair, Angela Kokkosis, MD, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, PGY-2 Vascular Surgery, Training Completion Date: 2014
• Randall R. De Martino, MD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, PGY-4 Vascular Surgery, Training Completion Date: 2013
• Dr. Alik Farber, Boston University School of Medicine, serves as the SVS Active Member on the Vascular Surgery Trainee Governing Council
• Mark Farber, MD, University of North Carolina, APDVS Executive Council Liaison
• Zachary Baldwin, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, PVSS Liaison
• 5 Positions TBA
  

Updated July 2011