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Roger Baird

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Roger Baird Roger Baird, past Chairman of AIVS, passed away peacefully at home in Bristol on 11th May 2024, he was 82. Roger trained in Edinburgh, where he met his future wife, Affra, at Medical School. In 1973, he moved as a senior trainee to Bristol and was then appointed to a Fulbright Scholarship at the Massachusetts General in Boston under the supervision of Bill Abbot, where he studi...
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Bernard Nachbur

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Bernhard Nachbur has died at the age of 95. He was a vascular and thoracic surgeon at University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. He was founder and member of numerous vascular societies in Europe and overseas. Bernhard Nachbur was a man of high ethical convictions, a personality with the gift for preserving the good from the traditional without closing his mind to the bet...
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Chairman’s pre-meeting letter March 2024

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Dear AIVS Membership, I am hopeful that all is well in that some of the health issues affecting our members are healing. The meeting is upon us in just a few days, but I’ve had some late submissions to the program and have not completed it until now. The program looks excellent, with 53 presentations overall, and 58 surgeons  (physicians) attending. In addition, there are multiple atte...
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Letter from the Chairman and organisers of AIVS 2024 Gressoney

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Dear AIVS Membership, As COVID 19 has waned, we continue to focus on a resurgence of our Vascular Association back to the times of prior years.  We had a phenomenal meeting in Whistler, Canada in 2020, no meeting in 2021, and smaller yet lively meetings in Austria in March of 2022 and 2023 (with growth in participation between years). In 2024, Peter Mondek will serve as our Preside...
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