FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kay Severinsen
kseverinsen@vascularsociety.org
312-334-2317
Ronald M. Fairman, MD, Elected President-Elect
of the Society for Vascular Surgery
CHICAGO, July 27, 2015—Ronald M. Fairman, MD, was elected president-elect of the Society
for Vascular Surgery (SVS) at the organization’s 2015 annual meeting in June.
Long active as an SVS leader, Dr. Fairman has served on the executive committee, the board of
directors, and various councils and committees. During his three years as program chair for the
Vascular Annual Meeting, abstract submissions and meeting attendance by both academic and
community-based vascular surgeons, increased substantially.
As he assumed his responsibilities as president-elect, Dr. Fairman pointed to the opportunity to
expand the society’s historic commitment to education.
“SVS needs to be at the forefront in defining and advocating highest-quality care through public
education and by promoting our practice guidelines. It is a priority to update and expand our
practice guidelines emphasizing our total care of patients with vascular disease,” Dr. Fairman
said.
Dr. Fairman has a multidimensional practice at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Medicine.
He is chief of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, one of the largest U.S. clinical
providers using endovascular techniques to treat thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms and
offering carotid interventional programs using both endarterectomy as well as stenting. He also
has a dual faculty appointment, as Clyde F. Barker–William Maul Measey professor in surgery
and professor in radiology. In addition, Dr. Fairman’s research has been pivotal to key clinical
trials and life-saving improvements in stent technology. In 2015, he was inducted as a member of
the Academy of Master Clinicians, Penn Medicine’s highest clinical honor.
After graduating Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., Dr. Fairman earned his medical degree at
Thomas Jefferson University’s Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He completed his
residency and fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
The Society for Vascular Surgery advances the care and knowledge of vascular disease, which
affects the veins and arteries of the body, to improve lives everywhere. It counts more than 5,300
medical professionals as members worldwide, including surgeons, non-surgeon physicians,
nurses and physician assistants. For more information about vascular health and the society,
please visit www.vascularweb.org.
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