Our Team

We have a passionate, experienced, and diverse team committed to serving patients through our mission. Meet our dedicated staff, board of directors, advisors, and volunteers representing all sectors of healthcare.

Kim Campbell, RN

Patient Advocate

Patrick Chong, MBBS, FRCS

Clinical Lead for Vascular Surgery

Naomi Hamburg, MD, MS, FACC

Joseph Vita Professor of Medicine, Boston University

Sherene Shalhub, MD

Division Head, Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at Oregon Health and Science University

Margaret Wong, MBA, MS

Director, Oncology Payer Strategy and Marketing at Gilead Science, Inc.

Julie Thomson

Patient Advocate

Matthew Corriere, MD, MS, MA

Director, Division of Vascular Diseases and Surgery at Ohio State University

Julie Freischlag, MD

CEO, Wake Forest Baptist Health
Dean, Wake Forest School of Medicine
CAO, Atrium Health Enterprise

Wendy Hitchcock

Former CEO, Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures

Edith Tzeng, MD

Chief of Vascular Surgery, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

David Armstrong, DPM, PhD

Professor of Surgery, USC
Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance

Sharon Binkley Straus

President, Binkley Foundation

Zorina Galis, PhD

Chief, Vascular Biology and Hypertension Branch, NHLBI

Manesh Patel, MD

Chief and Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Duke Heart Center

Omaida Velazquez, MD

Surgeon-in-Chief, University of Miami Health System

Jason Belzer, MS

Representative, The Americas at W.L. Gore & Associates