Board of Directors

Alain Drooz, MD (President)
Vascular and Interventional Associates of Fairfax Radiological Consultants, Vienna, VA

Dennis Newman (Chairman)
Founder of VDF and former President, Imex Medical Systems, Golden, CO

Bob Albertson

Cooper, Jones & McLeland, Ltd., Fairfax, VA

Mary Yost, MBA
Co-founder and Principal, The Sage Group, Atlanta, GA

Suresh Vedantham, MD

Washington University School of Medicine, Radiology, St. Louis, MO

Karen Zupko

Karen Zupko & Associates, Chicago, IL

Vascular and Medical Society Representatives:

Mark A. Creager, MD (President-Elect)
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
(representing American College of Cardiology)

David Faxon, MD (Treasurer)
University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL
(representing American Heart Association)

Judith Fried, RN, RVT, CVN (Secretary)
Bismarck, ND
(representing Society for Vascular Ultrasound)

Heather L. Gornik, M.D.
Vascular Medicine and Clinical Cardiology
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

(representing American College of Cardiology)

Alan Hirsch, MD (Past-President)
Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Radiology

University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Director, Vascular Medicine Program, Minneapolis Heart Institute

Abbott Northwestern's Vascular Center, Minneapolis
(representing Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology)

Peter Gloviczki, MD (Immediate Past President)
Director, The Gonda Vascular Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
(representing Society for Vascular Surgery)

Michael Jaff, DO

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Massachusetts General Hospital

(representing Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology)

Marge Lovell, RN, CVN
London Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario, Canada
(representing Society for Vascular Nursing)

M. Victoria Marx, MD

Los Angeles County - University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

(representing Society for Interventional Radiology)

Robert McLafferty, MD

Associate Professor, Division of Vascular Surgery

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL
(representing American Venous Forum)

Anton Sidawy, MD, MPH
VA Medical Center, Washington DC
(representing Society of Clinical Vascular Surgery)

Kerry Stewart, PhD
Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
(representing American Association of Cardiovascular Pulmonary Rehabilitation)

Jeffrey Weitz, MD

McMaster University Henderson Research Centre

(representing the American Society of Hematology)

Special Advisor to the Board:

Robert Rutherford, MD
Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Chief of Vascular Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO