June 2007 | Vol. 25, No. 6

Onsite Registration is Still Available to Attend SVU’s 30th Anniversary Annual Conference in Baltimore

If you have not yet registered to attend SVU’s 30th Anniversary Annual Conference, June 7-9, 2007 at the Baltimore Convention Center, onsite registration is still available at the SVU Registration Desk on the 400 level of the Baltimore Convention Center.

SVU’s 2007 Annual Conference is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge of the vascular professional. By attending this exciting educational and networking opportunity, you also can help pay tribute to SVU’s 30 years of service to the vascular ultrasound profession by attending the 30th Anniversary Gala Reception on Friday night, June 8, at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel.

You may wonder why there is an additional $25 charge to attend the 30th Anniversary Gala Reception on Friday night, June 8. The reason is that the Baltimore Inner Harbor, where the Baltimore Convention Center and the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel are located, is a very vibrant and exciting area offering many restaurants, bars, entertainment venues, numerous tourist attractions, and a Baltimore Orioles baseball game at nearby Camden Yards that might be of interest to some SVU Annual Conference attendees. SVU must give a food and beverage guarantee to the hotel for the Gala Reception. But we don’t want to give a high guarantee based on the number of SVU Annual Conference registrants and find out that many of them decided not to attend the Gala Reception and do something else in Baltimore on Friday night – which will cost a lot of wasted money for food and beverages at the Gala Reception from non-attendees. Thus, the SVU Annual Conference Committee and Board of Directors decided that if we require the Annual Conference attendees to pay a nominal fee to attend the reception, they are more likely to attend it to get their money’s worth. For the $25 fee you will get a very nice buffet dinner, tickets for 2 drinks from the bar (followed by a cash bar), a DJ to provide music from the 1970’s to today for singing and dancing from 7-11 pm, special 30th anniversary fun and games, and special guests. You won’t find a better dinner bargain in Baltimore Friday night, and you will help join your peers in the celebration of SVU’s 30th Anniversary.

Visit the SVU website (www.svunet.org) Annual Conference listing under events for the detailed 2007 AC Preliminary Program. For information on hotel options in Baltimore near the Convention Center, please go to http://www.svunet.org/events/annual/07/hotel.htm.

Come join us …

• Same low registration fee. (Full early registration is just $450.00 for SVU members. Same price as last year!)
• Low cost morning Tutorials (only $10.00 each, pre-registration required)
• Admission to ALL SVU and most SVS Sessions with your SVU registration badge
• Admission to Vascular Annual Meeting Exhibition with more than 150 vendors

Conference Highlights:

• D. E. Strandness, M.D. Scientific Session
• Alex Chao, M.D. / Young Investigators Scientific Session
• Morning Tutorials
• Skills Lab sessions
• Clinical Papers Session
• Posters Session
• Pre-Conference Sessions
• Government Relations Update
• Combined Exhibit Hall with the latest technologies
• Invited Speaker Sessions
• 30th Anniversary Gala Reception

The SVU Annual Conference will be held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), the Peripheral Vascular Surgical Society (PVSS), the Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology (SVMB) and the Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) at the Vascular Annual Meeting 2007.