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Author(s): Oliver Schlager Added: 7 months ago
ESC Congress 2025 - New guidelines for catheter-based VTE therapy emphasise the importance of involving vascular experts, and performing procedures in experienced centers.Dr Oliver Schlager (Medical University of Vienna, AT) joins us to discuss the newly released 2025 ESVM Guidelines on Interventional Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism, endorsed by European national societies of Vascular… View more
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Dr Line Melgaard MSc, PhD graduated from the University of Aalborg in 2013 with a master degree in Medicine with Industrial Specialization. Dr Melgaard received a PhD-degree from Aalborg University in 2016 (title: “Thromboembolic risk in heart failure patients without atrial fibrillation”). During her PhD, she used Danish nationwide registry data to investigate predictors of ischemic stroke and… View more
Job title: Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Job title: Clinical Cardiologist and Professor of Vascular Biology
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Professor of Angiology / Director University Clinic of Angiology
Prof Nils Kucher is aProfessor of Angiology and Director University Clinic of Angiology at University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, CH. He specialises in minimally invasive endovascular treatment of acute pulmonary embolism, acute deep vein thrombosis, and the post-thrombotic syndrome. From 2016-2017 he was Chief Physician of Angiology at University Hospital Bern, where earlier he fulfilled the… View more
Job title: Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery
Dr Mert Dumantepe is an Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Acibadem University School of Medicine, Turkey. He completed his graduation from Istanbul University School of Medicine, Turkey in 2001. He did a fellowship in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary endarterectomy and the heart transplantation and mechanical asist device programme at the University of… View more
Job title: PhD
Gary E Raskob's research and scholarly interests are in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism; the clinical development of antithrombotic drugs; clinical trials; prevention research; evidence-based medicine; and the translation of research evidence into practice and health policy. Gary E Raskob has participated extensively in clinical practice… View more
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Venous Disease - General

Job title: Associate Professor of Radiology, Surgery and Medicine; Director, Deep Venous Interventions
Dr Kush R Desai, MD, FSIR is an Interventional Radiologist and Associate Professor of Radiology, Surgery, and Medicine at Northwestern University. His primary research and clinical interests are in venous thromboembolic disease, deep venous thrombectomy/thrombolysis, reconstruction of chronic venous occlusions, IVC filter management/complex IVC filter retrieval, and interventional pulmonary… View more
Dr. Christian Thomas Ruff, MD, MPH serves as the Director of the Genetics Core Laboratory and holds the position of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, based at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.With a diverse educational background, Dr. Ruff graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Neurobiology before earning his medical degree at… View more