Newswise — Dr. Peter F. Lawrence was elected the 2010-2011 program chair of the Society for Vascular Surgery® (SVS) during the Vascular Annual Meeting® June 11, 2010. This marks his third term as program chair. He is professor of surgery, chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery and the Bergman professor of Vascular Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has hospital appointments at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences and the UCLA/Santa Monica Medical Center.
“Dr. Lawrence’s contributions to the SVS and the specialty of vascular surgery are outstanding,” said Anton Robert Zwolak, MD, SVS president. “The main responsibility of the SVS program chair is to develop and manage the SVS’ Vascular Annual Meeting®. With his leadership, this year’s meeting attendance broke all records with a total of 2,848 attendees.”
During his career Dr. Lawrence has served on the editorial boards of the journals Perspectives in Vascular/Endovascular Therapy, Vascular and Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, Journal of Vascular Surgery® and Contemporary Surgery. He was president of both the Association of Chairs in Vascular Surgery and the Southern California Vascular Surgery Society, as well as a past president of both the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery and the Western Vascular Society.
In addition to his dedication to the SVS, he is involved with the American College of Surgeons, American Heart Association, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, American Surgical Association, Los Angeles Surgical Society and the Pacific Coast Surgical Association.
Dr. Lawrence earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. and completed his Vascular Surgery Fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, N.Y.
About the Society for Vascular Surgery
The Society for Vascular Surgery® (SVS) is a not-for-profit professional medical society, composed primarily of vascular surgeons, that seeks to advance excellence and innovation in vascular health through education, advocacy, research, and public awareness. SVS is the national advocate for 3,370 specialty-trained vascular surgeons and other medical professionals who are dedicated to the prevention and cure of vascular disease. Visit its Web site at www.VascularWeb.org® and follow SVS on Twitter by searching for VascularHealth or at http://twitter.com/VascularHealth.
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