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2007 Program & Abstracts Complete 2007 Program and Abstracts Postgraduate Courses International Panel Thursday Breakfast SIGS Thursday Lunch Symposium, Gore Company Thursday Lunch Symposium, Cook Medical, Inc. Thursday Lunch Symposium, LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. Friday Breakfast SIGS Hands-on Stations   Meeting Registration Thank you to all who attended this year's meeting. Please don't forget to fill out our post meeting survey and obtain your CME Certificate. REMINDER: All Oral presentations are required to submit their manuscript to the Journal of Vascular Surgery preferably no later than two weeks following the meeting. 2007 Peter B. Samuels Winner Paper 11. Should DOQI Guidelines be updated? The Role of Basilic Vein Fistula Anantha K. Ramanathan, MBBS1, Nader D. Nader, MD2, Maciej L. Dryjski, MD1, Hasan H. Dosluoglu, MD2, Gregory S. Cherr, MD3, Richard G. Curl, MD3, Alan S. Kuritzky, MD1, Linda M. Harris, MD1. 1Millard Fillmore (Gates) Hospital, Buffalo, NY; 2Veterans Administration Hospital, Buffalo, NY; 3Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY, USA 2007 Allastair Karmody Poster Winner Poster P2. Pressure Assisted Liposome Mediated Exvivo Transfection of Canine Saphenous Vein Grafts with Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Gene Reduces Intimal Hyperplasia Manju Kalra, MBBS, Matt Loe, Sandra R. Severson, AA, Virginia M. Miller, PhD, Peter Gloviczki, MD. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA   Hotel Info & Reservations Disney Swan Hotel Mandara Spa        About Mandara Spa ( 600kb)        Spa Services ( 50kb)        Salon Services ( 55kb)   Authors & Speakers Author and Speaker Information   Speaker Guidelines ( 110kb) Poster Sample Layout ( 50kb) Poster Layout Suggestions ( 30kb) Poster Presentation Basics ( 80kb) Publications JVS   Electronic Submissions JVS Guidelines JVES   Submission Guidelines Vascular   Electronic Submission Guidelines   Social Events Don't Miss the SCVS Around The World Banquet, Friday, March 23, 6:30-9:30 pm at the Lake Terrace. Don't forget that extra tickets are available on the registration form and will also be available onsite. Bring your families to enjoy an evening of exciting worldly cuisine and activities from many different countries around the world and to top it off, a SURPRISE ending!   Walt Disney World Links Golfing:         SCVS Golf Outing - Lake Buena Vista Golf Course         Other Disney Golf Courses   Awards Competitions PETER B. SAMUELS ESSAY AWARD COMPETITION The Peter B. Samuels Award winner will receive a $1,000 Cash Award, reimbursement for round-trip coach airfare travel to the meeting, and 2 night's hotel accommodations. This competition is open to medical students of a University or Affiliated Hospital, residents in a Surgical or Vascular Surgical Residency or fellows in a Vascular Surgery Fellowship. Open to training programs in the United States or Canada only. Submissions for consideration must be original papers on a subject related to vascular surgery that have not been previously published nor presented. Abstracts may be based on either experimental or clinical observations, or may be analytical, based on analysis and review of previously published data on the anatomy, physiology, pathology, biochemistry, or genetics of the vascular system and its disease. Finalists for this award will be notified and must submit six (6) copies of their manuscript to the Society's office by January 15, 2007. You may indicate your interest in being considered for this award, by checking the appropriate box during the abstract submission process. ALLASTAIR KARMODY POSTER COMPETITION First Round winners will each receive a $500 cash award. The Karmody Poster Competition winner will receive an additional $500 cash award. The competition is limited to Fellows, Residents and Medical Students. All abstracts accepted for Poster Presentation will be considered. No additional field needs to be marked during the abstract submission process. Submissions must be original papers on a subject related to vascular surgery that have not been previously published nor presented. Abstracts may be based on either experimental or clinical observations, or it may be analytical, based on analysis and review of previously published data on the anatomy, physiology, pathology, biochemistry, or genetics of the vascular system and its disease. The Karmody Poster Competition will feature a 2-round judging process. Posters will be divided into topic groups with approximately the same number of posters in each group. Authors must attend the entire First Round session to be considered for the Karmody Award. First Round: Authors give a timed, 3-minute presentation; then respond to questions posed by other authors and attendees in their topic group. Topic groups run concurrently until all posters have been presented once. The authors and attendees of each group will score all posters in that group. Based on the peer scoring, a First Round winner will be selected for each group. Final Round: First Round winners will again give 3-minute presentations to the entire poster session audience. The assigned moderators of the First Round will score the Final Round presentations. The Final Round winner is designated the Allastair Karmody Competition winner.   Membership Information   Industry Information

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