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Dr. Peter F. Lawrence was elected 2008-2009 recorder and annual meeting program chairman of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) during the Vascular Annual Meeting on June 6, 2008. Dr. Lawrence serves as a professor of surgery, chief of the division of vascular surgery and the Bergman Professor of Vascular Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has hospital appointments at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences and the UCLA/Santa Monica Medical Center.

“Dr. Lawrence is a skilled surgeon and educator, and a committed SVS member,” said Dr. G. Patrick Clagett, SVS president. “His extensive academic record and dedicated leadership to the specialty is remarkable. The society is honored to have him join the executive committee.”

Dr. Lawrence currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Perspectives in Vascular/Endovascular Therapy, Vascular and Vascular & Endovascular Surgery. He previously served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Vascular Surgery and Contemporary Surgery. He is the current president of both the Association of Chairs in Vascular Surgery and the Southern California Vascular Surgery Society, as well as a past president of both the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery and the Western Vascular Society.

In addition to his dedication to the SVS, he is involved with the American College of Surgeons, American Heart Association, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, American Surgical Association, Los Angeles Surgical Society and the Pacific Coast Surgical Association.

Dr. Lawrence earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. and completed his Vascular Surgery Fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, N.Y.