Industry Spotlight

Leader of the Band: An Interview with the American College of Phlebology's New Executive Director Dean Bender

There are plenty of examples of people who have been involved in an organization for years and, after searching and searching for a new leader, end up being promoted from within. Phil Collins of the band Genesis comes to...Continue Reading


Value-Based Healthcare: An Industry Perspective

by Bonnie Handke, Jenny Gaffney, and Nidhi Oberoi In 2017, there is understandably a lot of uncertainty around the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and health care reform. However one certainty is that the transit...Continue Reading


Who’s On First? The Who and the What You Need to Know to Champion Success When Introducing a New Technology in the Vein Space

New technologies are innovated and brought to market by anyone with the right idea and road map. The mission can be daunting, making would-be new pioneers in medicine feel like, in the classic comedy sketch, Lou Costell...Continue Reading


Applications of Pneumatic Compression Therapy for Venous Abnormalities

As pneumatic compression therapy becomes more sophisticated, it is growing in scope of influence as a powerful tool to treat a multitude of circulatory conditions, heal post-op patients and help amputees. This technolog...Continue Reading


4 Critical Reasons to Expand Your Collaborative Care Network with Non-Invasive Vascular Assessments

With the prevalence of peripheral vascular disease rising, it is critical that vascular specialists maintain a collaborative network of physicians in their geographic regions to enable general practitioners to identify p...Continue Reading


Be the Culture of Change: Peer Comparison Feedback to Reduce Inappropriate Use

by Margaret Mann, MD and Marlin Schul, MD, MBA, RVT, FACPh Like many of you, we receive an energy efficiency report from our electric company every few months comparing our home’s energy use against others in our n...Continue Reading


Building a Culture of Inclusion

Photo credit: Photography of North America Corporation For any specialty, an innovative, competitive workforce requires more than market competencies—it must also carry the power of innate, authentic human connecti...Continue Reading


Advancing the Care of Venous Ulcers: Industry's Key Role

As most of us know, Hippocrates wrote more than 30 medical books during his lifetime. One was devoted to the care of patients with various wounds and venous ulcers. In this book, he instructs patients to stop strenuous ac...Continue Reading


Pelvic Vein Disease: Filling the Void

A roundtable discussion with Drs. Meridith Englander, Tony Gasparis, Neil Khilnani, and Mark Meissner. Moderated by Dr. Steve Elias Steve: Today we’re talking about the management of pelvic vein disease, and I wan...Continue Reading


The Patient's Role in Ethical Vein Care: A Physician's Perspective

I said, no. She asked for the third time. I said no for the third time. Why wouldn’t I do a venous procedure on a patient whose venous mapping study was normal and she just didn’t like those blue-green veins...Continue Reading