2025 Program

The Physicians-in-Training program at VIVA and The VEINS offers a series of fellows & residents sessions designed to enhance your skill set as a vascular specialist and personal growth as an early-career professional.

The attendees of the fellows and residents scholarship program will have the exclusive opportunity to visit each commercial supporter of the program during an industry session on Sunday, November 2. During the session, trainees will rotate through each booth to learn about each company and develop relationships with supporters as advocates of PVD diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment.

Registration for the 2025 scholarship program will open on June 2.

FACE-OFF COMPETITION

Program participants who are attending VIVA will participate in the Face-Off competition, which offers the opportunity to present an interesting case or original research in a 7-minute session, followed by 3 minutes of Q&A from members of the VIVA faculty. Cases will focus on the endovascular or medical treatment of peripheral vascular disease. Presentations are judged on clarity, depth, originality, and interest to field. Winners will present their case in the Spotlight Theater on the final day of the VIVA conference.

The top three Face-Off presenters will have the opportunity to submit their case for review and publication in the Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases, Innovations, and Techniques, with submission fees paid by The VIVA Foundation.

POSTER DISPLAY

Trainees attending only The VEINS must present a poster on a case or research topic. For those attending both VIVA and The VEINS, the poster is optional.

Eligibility

  • U.S. physicians in training
  • Current 1st- or 2nd-year fellows in interventional radiology, cardiology, interventional cardiology, vascular medicine, or vascular surgery
  • Residents in PG 1-5 vascular surgery or PG 1-5 interventional radiology

Diagnostic radiology and general surgery fellowships are ineligible for this program.


IMPORTANT DEADLINES

  • Scholarship portal opens July 9
  • Fellows & residents must register by August 1 to be eligible for Face-Off
  • Scholarship applications and presentations are due by August 19
  • Scholarships will be awarded on August 28

FACE-OFF WINNERS FROM RECENT YEARS:

2024

Winner: Ishmael Raheem, MD

Runners up:
Ana Paula Morales Allende, MD
Victor Rivera, MD


2023

Winner: Camila Villacreses, MD

Runners up:
John Do, MD
Joel Ramirez, MD


2022

Winner: Amanda Morrison, MD

Runners up:
Nallely Saldana-Ruiz, MD
Venki Ramakrishnan, MD


2021

Winner: Daryl Goldman, MD

Runners up:
Dhara Kinariwala, MD
Raghuram Posham, MD
Brent Robertson, MD


2019

Winner: Deanna Yamamura, DO

Runners up:
Ankeet Bhatt, MD
Eudoro Jorge Orozco, MD

Please email Christopher Ebbe at cebbe@viva-foundation.org to receive information about future programs and to be added to our mailing list.