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2011 President's Message<< Back to President's Message Listing
I want to turn for a moment to the unexpected passing of Past-President Jim Seeger just a few months prior to the past meeting. I knew Jim for nearly twenty-five years, and I always marveled at his encyclopedic knowledge of vascular surgery and his clarity of thought. Few people have left their mark on the SAVS like Jim Seeger. At one time or another Jim served in almost every official capacity within the SAVS including a term in the all important position of Secretary-Treasurer and was last serving as the Bylaws Chairman. No one knew the SAVS better than he did. Despite all of his many other activities and responsibilities, the SAVS was always one of Jim’s special interests and pet projects. As a professional organization we will benefit from his legacy for many years to come. His eloquent euology delivered by Past-President Stan Snyder was a fitting rememberance of his great talent, tireless effort, leadership, and many other contributions to vascular surgery and the SAVS. Jim will be greatly missed. We were all especially pleased to see Carolyn Seeger at the meeting to receive Jim’s well-deserved Rudolph Matas Lifetime Achievement Award and hope that she will continue to be a familiar face at SAVS meetings in years to come. For next year’s 35th Annual Meeting we return again to the elegant Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Naples, Florida from January 19 - 22, 2011. As many of you will recall, this hotel has some of the finest meeting facilities of any venue that we have used in recent years. Plans for another outstanding meeting next year are already in progress. The abstract deadline for the scientific program has been set for September 3, 2010.
I hope you will all plan to attend, and I look forward to seeing you in Naples. |
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