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I am sad to report the death of one of our most long-standing members. Many will remember him organising a wonderful meeting in 1999 in the hotel in Leogang where he and his family had been skiing for many years before. He was President of the Association for the meeting in Snowmass in 2004. he was a general and vascualr surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital quite near to Twickenham where he ser...
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Dear AIVS delegates, I am sorry to report a great loss for all of AIVS.  Mr. John Thompson succumbed peacefully after a hard fight with malignancy today on February 25, 2021.  “Thomo” was a great friend to all of us, a great contributor to the knowledge of medicine and vascular disease, and a devoted husband and father.   Some of his clinical background is summarised...
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Dear Friends -  Hope you are your families are healthy.  I’m sure many of you heard that some of our friends became sick with Covid upon returning home from Whistler.  No one, to my knowledge, required hospitalization.  I hope the same has been true for the entire AIVS family and friends.  Thank you again to the Canadian contingent for organizing and pulling off an outstanding AIVS 2020 in Whi...
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