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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, September 20, 2025
  • 6:45 AM - 7:45 AM EDT
    Industry-Sponsored Breakfast with Novartis: What happens next? Beyond statins for optimizing LDL-C management after coronary and peripheral intervention
  • 7:45 AM - 7:55 AM EDT
    Transition to General Session
  • 7:55 AM - 8:00 AM EDT
    Welcome & Announcements
  • 8:00 AM - 8:20 AM EDT
    Presidential Address
    Speaker: Elizabeth Ratchford, MD, RVT/RPVI, FSVM – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • 8:15 AM - 8:50 AM EDT
    SVM Business Meeting
    Faculty: Elizabeth Ratchford, MD, RVT/RPVI, FSVM – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Faculty: Teresa L. Carman, MD, RPVI, MSVM – University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute
    Faculty: Joshua Beckman, MD, MSc – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
    Faculty: G. Jay Bishop, MD FACP FSVM FACC RPVI – Cleveland Clinic
    Faculty: Alexandra L. Solomon, MD, RPVI FSVM – Eastern Vascular Associates, New Jersey
  • 8:50 AM - 9:50 AM EDT
    Clash of the Titans: Great Debates in Vascular Medicine
    Moderator: Stanislav Henkin, MD, MPH, RPVI – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Shea E. Hogan, MD, MSCS, FSVM – University of Colorado
  • 9:50 AM - 10:30 AM EDT
    Pregnancy and Vascular Disease
    Moderator: Nichole E. Brunton, DO RPVI – Virginia Commonwealth University Health
    Moderator: Jessica K. Bjorklund, MD, MPH, FACC, RPVI – Staten Island University Hospital
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
    Exhibit Hall Break
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
    Atherosclerosis Prevention - Practical Implementation Across the Disease Continuum
    Moderator: Shireen Khoury, MD, MPH – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Moderator: John Hornick, MD – UPMC
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
    Keynote: Lipoprotein(a): Rewriting the Vascular Risk Equation
    Keynote Speaker: Michael D. Shapiro, DO, MCR – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
    Industry-Sponsored Lunch with Boston Scientific: Varithena Foundations: From Data to Delivery
  • 1:00 PM - 1:10 PM EDT
    Transition to General Session
  • 1:10 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Best of VSS2025: Highlighted Oral Abstracts
    Moderator: Scott J. Cameron, MD, PhD – Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Moderator: Pulkit Chaudhury, MD – Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    Venous Vascular Medicine Symposium I: The Nuts and Bolts of Clinical Practice
    Moderator: Eri Fukaya, MD, PhD – Stanford University
    Moderator: Raghu Kolluri, MD, MS, RVT, MSVM – OhioHealth
  • 3:20 PM - 3:50 PM EDT
    Exhibit Hall & Break
  • 3:50 PM - 4:30 PM EDT
    Therapeutic dilemmas in Atherosclerosis Fireside Chat
    Moderator: Shireen Khoury, MD, MPH – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Panelist: Michael D. Shapiro, DO, MCR – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Panelist: Seth Shay Martin, MD, MHS – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
    Panelist: Joshua Beckman, MD, MSc – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • 3:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT
    Venous Lymphatic Vascular Medicine Workshop (Registration Required)
  • 4:30 PM - 5:10 PM EDT
    CLTI Fireside Chat
    Moderator: Jennifer Rymer, MD MBA MHS – Duke University Medical Center
  • 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
    Exhibit Hall & Break
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM EDT
    Vascular Jeopardy
    Moderator: Gaurav Parmar, MD, MPH, RPVI, FSVM – Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Moderator: Mitchell Weinberg, MD – Staten Island University Hospital - Northwell Health
  • 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
    Global Networking Happy Hour – Celebrating Our International Colleagues