SVS Creates Frank J. Veith Lecture on PAD

August 9, 2022—The Frank J. Veith International Society (FJVIS) recently announced that the Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS) unanimously approved the creation of the Frank J. Veith Lecture on Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). The proposal for the honor was made to SVS by Enrico Ascher, MD, who is Founder and Executive Director of the FJVIS.

Ali AbuRahma, MD, 2021-2022 SVS President, announced the designated lectureship at the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting, which was held June 15-18 in Boston, Massachusetts.

The lectureship recognizes the legacy of Frank J. Veith, MD, who served as SVS President in 1995. Dr. Veith was previously honored with the SVS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and the Homans Lecture in 2016, noted FJVIS.

According to FJVIS, during the past 5 decades, Dr. Veith has published hundreds of important scientific articles on strategies to salvage severely ischemic limbs threatened by advanced atherosclerotic disease. He has been a pioneer in challenging many established dogmas that prevented successful attempts at limb salvage. Several of his innovative surgical approaches to lower extremity arterial reconstructions are established strategies in the armamentarium of a modern vascular surgeon.

Dr. Veith is Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and New York University Medical Center in New York, New York.

Additionally, he is Founder and Chairman of VEITHsymposium. The 49th annual meeting will be held November 15-19, 2022, at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. More information is available online at Veithsymposium.org.

In a September 2015 interview in Endovascular Today, Dr. Veith reflected on his career as a pioneer in vascular surgery and medical education.