About VDF : Board of Directors
Pictured left to right: David Faxon, MD (Treasurer), Michael Jaff, MD, Alan Hirsch, MD, Robert McLafferty, MD, Marge Lovell, CVN, (front row) Patricia Hofstra, JD, Judy Fried, RVT, Dennis Newman (chairman), Mark Creager, MD (President) Kerry Stewart, EdD
Mark A. Creager, MD (President)
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Dennis Newman (Chairman)
Founder of VDF and former President, Imex Medical Systems, Golden, CO
Bob Albertson
Cooper, Jones & McLeland, Ltd., Fairfax, VA
Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS
17th Surgeon General of the United States
Vice chairman of Canyon Ranch and president of the Canyon Ranch Institute, Tucson, AZ
Alain Drooz, MD (Immediate Past-President)
Vascular and Interventional Associates of Fairfax Radiological Consultants, Vienna, VA
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
Patricia S. Hofstra, JD
Duane Morris, LLP, Chicago, IL
Suresh Vedantham, MD
Washington University School of Medicine, Radiology, St. Louis, MO
Mary Yost, MBA
Co-founder and Principal, The Sage Group, Atlanta, GA
Karen Zupko
Karen Zupko & Associates, Chicago, IL
Vascular and Medical Society Representatives:
John F. Angle, MD
University of Virginia Health System
(representing Society for Interventional Radiology)
Kenneth J. Cherry, MD
University of Virginia
(representing
Society for Vascular Surgery)
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, MD
Vascular Medicine and Clinical Cardiology
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
(representing American College of Cardiology)
Michael Jaff, DO
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Massachusetts General Hospital
(representing Society for Vascular Medicine)
Marge Lovell, RN, CVN
London Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario, Canada
(representing Society for Vascular Nursing)
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 (President Elect)
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
