About VDF : Board of Directors
Pictured left to right: David Faxon, MD, Michael Jaff, MD, Alan Hirsch, MD,
Robert McLafferty, MD, Marge Lovell, CVN, (front row) Patricia Hofstra, JD, Judy Fried, RVT,
Dennis Newman (VDF founder), Mark Creager, MD, Kerry Stewart, EdD
Anton Sidawy, MD, MPH (President)
VA Medical Center, Washington DC
Robert McLafferty, MD (President-Elect)
Associate Professor, Division of Vascular Surgery
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL
(representing American Venous Forum)
Heather L. Gornik, MD (Secretary)
Vascular Medicine and Clinical Cardiology
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
(representing American College of Cardiology)
Mary Yost, MBA (Treasurer)
Co-founder and Principal, The Sage Group, Atlanta, GA
Vascular and Medical Society Representatives:
John F. Angle, MD
University of Virginia Health System
(representing Society for Interventional Radiology)
Joseph Caporusso, DPM
Complete Family Foot Care
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
Kenneth J. Cherry, MD
University of Virginia
(representing
Society for Vascular Surgery)
Mark A. Creager, MD (Past-President)
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
David Faxon, MD
University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL
(representing American Heart Association)
Judith Fried, RN, RVT, CVN
Bismarck, ND
(representing Society for Vascular Ultrasound)
Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital Cardiovascular Division, Boston, MA
Patricia S. Hofstra, JD
Duane Morris, LLP, Chicago, IL
Alan Hirsch, MD
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
Michael Jaff, DO
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Massachusetts General Hospital
(representing Society for Vascular Medicine)
Marjorie King, MD
Helen Hayes Hospital, West Haverstraw, NY
(representing American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation)
Marge Lovell, RN, CVN
London Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario, Canada
(representing Society for Vascular Nursing)
M. Ashraf Mansour, MD
Professor of Surgery Michigan State University
(representing Society of Clinical Vascular Surgery)
Suresh Vedantham, MD
Washington University School of Medicine, Radiology, St. Louis, MO
Jeffrey Weitz, MD
McMaster University Henderson Research Centre
(representing the American Society of Hematology)
Karen Zupko
Karen Zupko & Associates, Chicago, IL
Special Advisor to the Board:
Robert Rutherford, MD
Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Chief of Vascular Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO
