The Association for Vascular Access (AVA) is an association of healthcare professionals founded in 1985 to promote the emerging vascular access specialty.
04/16/2026
We’re proud to spotlight AVA President Lori Kaczmarek as she took the stage at 9th World Congress on Vascular Access (WoCoVA) in Valencia, Spain for an important global conversation on vascular access.
Session: VA Guidelines Around the World – Do They Fulfill Every Country’s Needs?
This dynamic session bought together international experts to explore how vascular access guidelines are applied across diverse healthcare systems—and where gaps still exist.
Lori joins a distinguished panel representing countries across the globe, contributing AVA’s perspective to discussions on:
Global survey insights on VA guideline use
Variations in practice across regions
The future of harmonizing standards worldwide
With voices from the U.S., Canada, Italy, Belgium, Mexico, India, and beyond, this session is a powerful reminder that advancing vascular access care is truly a global effort.
Join us in celebrating Lori’s leadership and AVA’s continued impact on the international stage.
04/16/2026
Don't miss Early Bird Registration for AVA 2026! Discount ends on May 6th!
In this CE Podcast Judy, Dr. Sarah Capalla and Jenny Ballard discusses the impact of the impending CMS movement towards imposing Hospital Onset Bacteremia (HOB) reporting. The conversation discusses education, leadership, and the use of medical technologies to prevent vascular access harm.
Click here to listen: www.avainfo.org/page/podcastpublic
This presentation will award the attendee with 1 contact hour of continuing education. The Association for Vascular Access is an accredited continuing education provider through the California Board of Registered Nurses. Provider #: CEP12371.
This Podcast will be available for 1 CE for 60 days - until May 20, 2026
03/25/2026
Registration is now open for the 2026 Virtual Symposium focused on Aseptic Non Touch Technique (ANTT®)! This is a new virtual opportunity to come together and learn from ANTT® founders, clinical experts, and industry.
Please join us for our quarterly Pediatric Exchange. If you work with Pediatrics and/or Neonatal patients, plan on joining us for fantastic conversation, Q&A and interacting with other passionate clinicians. Use this link or scan the QR code to register: https://loom.ly/_TN0seE
03/03/2026
Join AVA's webinar on TODAY - Tuesday, March 3rd to hear an overview of AVA's Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Please join us for our quarterly Pediatric Exchange. If you work with Pediatrics and/or Neonatal patients, plan on joining us for fantastic conversation, Q&A and interacting with other passionate clinicians.
Use this link or scan the QR code to register: https://loom.ly/_TN0seE
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Pediatric Exchange - March 10, 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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The Association for Vascular Access (AVA) is an association of healthcare professional founded in 1985 to promote the emerging vascular access specialty. AVA stands at the forefront of protecting and saving lives through the promotion of patient advocacy and by the establishment of best practices, educational resources, and advanced research.
Started as a local network by Suzanne Herbst, RN, MA, in the San Francisco Bay Area, today AVA boasts nearly 3,000 members, among them clinicians from multiple health care disciplines. All 50 states, Canada and countless other countries comprise AVA’s membership, with its international presence growing in the global arena. AVA continues to expand its reach and provide the focus necessary to promote excellence in the specialty and practice of vascular access.
It does this through its 52 active local networks (51 in the U.S., plus 1 in Canada), which host sponsored events committed to providing an opportunity for members to broaden their knowledge of vascular access care and related fields through networking and education. Local networks offers vascular access professionals the means to network directly with other professionals in their areas of expertise, through meetings that often offer continuing education credits, dinner meetings, and quality dynamic speakers.
AVA’s largest annual event is its scientific meeting, entering its 34th consecutive year in 2020. Attendance at the 2019 event in Las Vegas set yet another record, with 1,385 clinicians representing numerous healthcare disciplines registering and experiencing the event at Caesars Palace. This marked the fifth consecutive meeting in which clinical attendance grew, where attendees had the opportunity to receive as many as 20.0 CE credits, and more if they registered for a pre-meeting workshop. Attendees also spent time in the Exhibit Hall, where a record 80 exhibitors gave insight on their products, services, and more.
AVA also provides education to those clinicians unable to attend its annual national meeting or those meetings on the local level. AVA Academy creates a greater public awareness of vascular access to empower members and non-members by providing them with educational resources and opportunities on their own time with novel, easy-to-use courses where they can earn CEs. Creative and engaging video content prefaces quizzes for CE credit at Academy, yet another tool AVA provides as part of its dedication to advance this specialty.
Interested in vascular access and learning more about the specialty? Tired of witnessing patients enter your health care facility for a procedure, only to stay longer than they should because of contracting an infection from a vascular access device? Join AVA, where together, we can break down barriers by educating one another and doing more for our patients.
Protect the Patient | Educate the Clinician | Save the Line
