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.

David Armstrong, DPM, PhD

Professor of Surgery, USC

Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance

Kim Capbell, RN

Patient Advocate

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

Julie Thomson

Patient Advocate

Margaret Wong, MBA, MS

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

Jason Belzer, MS

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

Matthew Corriere, MD, MS

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

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

Edith Tzeng, MD

Chief of Vascular Surgery, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Sharon Binkley Straus

President, Binkley Foundation

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

Anne Szafranski, MBA, MS

Vice President of Marketing, Peripheral Vascular Health at Medtronic

Omaida Velazquez, MD

Surgeon-in-Chief, University of Miami Health System