Former Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Anton N. Sidawy, MD, FACS, DFSVS, became the 106th president of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) at the ACS Clinical Congress 2025 in Chicago earlier this month (Oct. 4–7).
A professor of surgery and the Lewis B. Saltz chair of the Department of Surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., Sidawy said his rise to the ACS presidency “fills me with pride and the satisfaction that my peers see me as a passionate servant leader and consensus builder.”
Sidawy served as SVS president from 2009–10. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) and served as the founding editor-in-chief of both the Journal of Vascular Surgery-Venous and Lymphatic Disorders (JVS-VL) and Journal of Vascular Surgery-Cases, Innovations and Techniques (JVS-CIT).
His has also led as president of the the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery and the Eastern Vascular Society. Notably, Sidawy led the efforts in the creation of the ACS-SVS Vascular Verification Program (VVP), a national quality improvement program focused on improving vascular surgical and interventional care.
Sidawy is the second former SVS president to serve as ACS president in recent years. Julie A. Freischlag, MD, CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, served from 2021–22.
