Greater Pittsburgh Vascular Technologists

06/25/2025

Wishing our fearless leader, Keith, a very HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY today!!! 🎂 🎈 🎉 🎁

05/14/2025

A note from our president:

I wanted to send out to the membership to explain what's been going on with GPVT and the lack of meetings recently. We are still an active organization. The host hospital (UPMC & AGH) have not been able to sponsor meetings over the past two years for many reasons. On the UPMC side, as some of you may know, Deb Pirt retired spring of 2023. At the same time two labs at Shadyside and Presby were up for reaccreditation. So not only did my responsibilities increase, but I had to submit my first reaccreditation application. At the very same time, Shadyside and Presby were going through their 3- year Joint commission Surey. It was quite a busy time for me to say the least. In 2024, both hospital systems started to watch their department budgets. that meant that GPVT would have to cover such expenses as meeting venue rent, food, parking and media. These costs can easily exceed three to four thousand dollars. We unfortunately don't have the budget for that unless we increase the yearly dues subsstantially. For the near future we don't want to do that. To add to this in 2024-2025AGH's CME department has been going through an audit and therefore are not covering any of these meeting costs. So going forward I will hopefully be attempting to plan a meeting for this fall if the financial climate within the hospital continues to improve. Nina feels that they should be able to host a meeting in spring of 2026, hopefully around April. Again, I just wanted to send out this letter to try to explain where we are as an organization and to thank you for your patience.

Thanks,
Keith Hall BS, RVT (President GPVT)

03/12/2025

***JOB ALERT***

UPMC - Pittsburgh Medical Center

03/12/2025

***JOB ALERT***

UPMC

01/23/2025

This is not our usual GPVT event, but worth mentioning anyway!

The symposium will focus on new developments in technology, as well as surgical techniques, and will highlight the controversies as well as accepted practices.

01/23/2025

This is not our GPTVT symposium, but worth mentioning anyway in case you are interested!

The symposium will focus on new developments in technology, as well as surgical techniques, and will highlight the controversies as well as accepted practices.

11/19/2024

Apologies everyone! Due to technical difficulties the fall symposium is postponed! Will post with further updates when I receive them!

11/13/2024

JOB ALERT!!!

Part time vascular position in SW Pennsylvania. Surgical office. Monday through Friday.

11/08/2024

Ok! Update:

What was posted prior and on this post also is the save the date for the virtual on demand conference. The small print is just the AGH CME statement. They are sending out a registration flier out November 15th with the complete details on:

-Registration
-Payment
- How to view info from Nov 15-Dec 15
-5 credits.

11/07/2024

I only have the information given on the meeting. I am awaiting more information. Will post when I find out.

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10/25/2024

FALL SYMPOSIUM INFO!

10/02/2024

NOVA's fall symposium on October 19th. It is a free webinar conference worth 5 CMEs!

MEETING AGENDA 7:45-8:00am Welcome and Announcements 8:00-900am “The Utility of Duplex Ultrasound in Detecting Endoleaks post EVAR” Ali Khalifeh MD 9:00-10:00am “Workplace Wellness: Identifying WRMKD and Burnout Traits” Aubrey Rybyinski RVT 10:00-10:30am Vendor Session 10:30-11:30 “Interpl...