The Editors of the JVS-Vascular Science would like also like to congratulate our Editorial Board member Dr. Omaida Velazquez, M.D., FACS, professor and chair, DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, for her election into the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Velazquez was elected in recognition of her “pioneering research that identified E-selectin as a membrane-bound adhesion molecule that induces pro-angiogenesis and healing, in a vascular medicine field where previously only soluble factors had been considered therapeutic candidates”. Her groundbreaking work ushered a paradigm-shifting platform to reverse tissue damage by arterial occlusion or diabetes. Some other recent honors and awards include a State of New Jersey Senate Citation for “Illustrious Medical Career and Research in Peripheral Vascular Disease.” She was also the keynote scholar at Baylor College of Medicine’s 2022 research symposium and received the University of Michigan’s Conrad Jobst Lecture Award in 2019.