Team
Our team
Michael Åkesson
Founder & board member
Peter Marcusson
Chair of the board
Mats Nilsson
Board member
Jens Mogenssen
Board member
Cathrin Johansson
CEO
Lisa Warnroth
Head of Quality & Regulatory Affairs
US Advisory Board
Stephen P. Murray
MD, FACS
Trained in classical vascular surgery at the University of San Francisco and made the full transition to endovascular techniques as one of the first endovascular fellows in the United States in 2000, Dr. Murray has been caring for arterial and venous patients since the early 1980s.
Dr. Lowell Kabnick
Chancellor of Vein & Lymphatic University
Dr. Kabnick, a world-renowned surgeon and teacher, is the Chancellor of Vein & Lymphatic University, an educational organization dedicated to advancing education of venous disease and treatment. He presently serves as an Associate Reviews Editor of the Journal of Phlebology. He is the past Vice President and Chair of The Congress and Events Committee for the International Union of Phlebology (UIP), the Past President of the American Venous Forum (AVF) and American Venous Forum Foundation (AVFF), and the Former Director of the New York University Vein Center.
Dr. Karem Harth
Associate Professor of Surgery
Dr. Harth is a Vascular Surgeon and Associate Professor of surgery at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. She is the medical director of the Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute Center for Comprehensive Venous Care and co-Director of the Vascular Laboratories. She is an active member of multiple societies including the American Venous Forum on which she serves on several committees. Her practice is primarily focused on complex superficial and deep venous disease.
Dr. Natalie Marks
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and Vascular Medicine attending at New York University Langone Hospital – Brooklyn, New York, and Total Vascular Care, PLLC.
Dr. Marks is an internationally recognized vascular medicine specialist for her many scientific contributions to the field of vascular medicine and vascular ultrasound. She had published over 120 scientific articles in referred journals, had written close to 20 chapters in medical textbooks, and had given over 150 invited lectures at various national and international vascular congresses.
Dr. Marks spent years of her clinical and academic career developing techniques to use ultrasound instead of fluoroscopy during various arterial interventions. She is considered one of the creators of the field of ultrasound guided arterial procedures.
Dr Marks is a Co-Chair of the AVID Symposium on vascular ultrasound within the VEITH symposium, the largest non-societal meeting for vascular specialist in the world. She is also a member of the Assessment Committee for the Physician Vascular Interpretation certification program.
Peter F. Lawrence
M.D. Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, emeritus, Director of Gonda Vascular Center, emeritus, UCLA
Dr. Lawrence has published over 300 articles, editorials, and book chapters related to aneurysms, limb salvage, and venous disease. He recently completed his term as the senior editor of the four Journal of Vascular Surgery Journals, and he has been president of six societies, including the Society for Vascular Surgery, the nation’s largest vascular society with over 6,000 members, as well as the Association for Surgical Education, the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, and the chair of the SVS Vascular Disease Foundation.