Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce this year’s lineup for the 18th VIA Symposium annual educational event! This event will bring updates on the armamentarium of cutting edge minimally invasive treatments available to elevate care for your patients.

The VIA Foundation is a private not for profit educational foundation with the mission to advance understanding of image guided treatments to the primary providers. The volunteer staff at VIA Foundation has again worked tirelessly to secure nationally prominent speakers on innovative topics, and secured funding to bring you another high-quality educational event this year. The event is organized and funded as a service to our primary care community at no cost! We will be approved for between 6 and 7 CME credits this year. The target audience is the primary care provider community (physician, NP, PA), the OB/GYN providers and podiatrist/wound care providers.

We have learned in medical school that the first rule of medicine is “primum non nocere” (do no harm). With rapid medical innovation, emphasis ought to also be on “CCC“ (Check your ego, Collaborate with a team approach for Complex patient care) to achieve positive outcomes of complex disease states. This is the theme and the spirit of this symposium.

This year’s symposium is roughly divided in 4 parts. The first part is dedicated to amputation prevention through team approach. Here we will focus on how different team members collaborate to heal foot wounds and prevent amputation to bring down morbidity and mortality.

The second portion of the symposium is dedicated to advances in neurovascular intervention with such novel treatments as embolization for chronic subdural hematomas and tinnitus/headaches now being relieved by venous stenting.

The third portion contains updates on vascular interventional radiology related topics with new treatments using vascular embolization therapeutically to solve problems/offer novel treatments traditionally in realm of surgical intervention only.

The fourth portion is cardiology updates which include tricuspid valve repair, left atrial appendage occlusion and mobile treatment for hypertension through renal artery denervation.

I hope to see you on Saturday, October 19th. Please reserve early and be sure to attend once your spot is reserved. The foundation spends approximately $300-350 per person for the symposium set up expense. Your robust attendance encourages the volunteer staff of the VIA Foundation and the industry benefactors to continue to fund this endeavor as a service to our primary care provider community.