title: The 2014 China meeting of the International Society for Vascular Surgery.
abstract: The 2014 meeting of the International Society for Vascular Surgery (ISVS) was held in Guangzhou, China, in conjunction with the fifth annual Wang Zhong-Gao's Vascular Forum, the eighth annual China Southern Endovascular Congress, and the third annual Straits Vascular Forum. Keynote addresses were given by Professors Christos Liapis, Wang Zhong-Gao, and Wang Shen-Ming. President Liapis presented the first ISVS Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Wang Zhong-Gao for his multi-decade accomplishments establishing Vascular Surgery as a specialty in China. Faculty presentations were made in plenary sessions that focused on diseases relevant to the patterns of vascular disease prevalent in China. Thirty-one abstracts were presented by vascular surgeons from around the globe, and the top 10 presentations were recognized. Thirteen countries were represented in the meeting. The 2014 ISVS meeting was a success. Partnership of this meeting with host Chinese Vascular Surgery societies was of mutual benefit, bringing vascular surgeons of international reputation to the local area for academic and intellectual exchange and formation of collaborations; integration of the meetings allows easier logistics to facilitate meeting organization and optimization of time for both faculty and attendees. This integrated model may serve as an optimal model for future meetings.
authors.affiliation: Section of Vascular Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA alan.dardik@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dardik
authors.affiliation: Syntactx, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ouriel
authors.affiliation: First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: JinSong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Christos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liapis
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures
keywords: ISVS; meeting; vascular surgery