STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Society for Vascular Surgery has announced the launch of a new quarterly journal - Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders. The inaugural issue will appear in January, 2013. Elsevier currently publishes the Journal of Vascular Surgery on behalf of the Society.
Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders will publish high quality clinical and basic scientific research, case reports, venous images, techniques, review articles, and practice management manuscripts related to all aspects of venous disease, lymphatic disease, and wound care with an emphasis on the practicing clinician. The journal will seek to provide novel and timely information to vascular surgeons, interventionalists, phlebologists, wound care specialists, and allied health professionals who treat patients presenting with venous and lymphatic disease.
The international editorial board will be led by Dr. Anton N. Sidawy and Dr. Bruce A. Perler. Dr. Sidawy is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vascular Surgery and past-president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, and the Eastern Vascular Society.
Dr. Perler is chief of the division of vascular surgery and professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore. He is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery and past president of the Eastern Vascular Society and the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery.
