Leadership & Committees
AVF Board of Directors
LEADERSHIP
Executive Committee
President
William Marston, MD
President Elect
Glenn Jacobowitz, MD
Vice President
Ruth Bush, MD, JD
Treasurer
Joe Raffetto, MD
Secretary/Admin Council Chair
Mark Iafrati, MD
AVF Past President
Antonios Gasparis, MD
Board of Directors
Education Councilor
Daniel Monahan, MD
Communications Councilor
Steve Elias, MD
Director
Jose Almeida, MD
Membership Councilor
Kathleen Ozsvath, MD
Director
Makis Avgerinos, MD
Research Councilor
Faisal Aziz, MD
Recorder
Lori Pounds
Director
Alessandra Puggioni, MD
Director
Jose Diaz, MD
Director
Jorge Ulloa, MD
Administration Team
John Forbes
Executive Director
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Jeff Mendola, CFRE
Director, Mission Advancement
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Amy Murrin
AVF Staff
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Allie Woodward
AVF Staff
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COMMITTEES
Annual Program Committee
Mikel Sadek, MD – Chair
Angela Kokkosis, MD – Chair-Elect
Makis Avgerinos, MD – Past Chair
Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar, MD
Steven Elias, MD
Faisal Aziz, MD
Julianne Stoughton, MD
Misaki Kiguchi, MD
Arjun Jayaraj, MD
Jennifer Ellis, MD
Christine Shokrzadeh, MD
Nasim Hedayati, MD
John Carson, MD
Daniel Monahan, MD
Kathleen Ozsvath, MD
Bylaws Committee
Mark Iafrati, MD – Chair
Ruth Bush, MD – Past Chair
Marc Passman, MD – Member
Mark Iafrati, MD – Councilor
Digital Media Committee
Eric Hager, MD – Chair
Andrea Obi, MD – Past Chair
Misaki Kiguchi, MD
Yang Yang, MD
Angela Kokkosis, MD
Leigh Ann O’Banion, MD
Catherine Go, MD
Matthew Smeds, MD
Andy Moyal, MD
Ahmad Alsheekh, MD
Antonio Solano, MD
Steve Elias, MD
Distinguished Fellows Committee
Anthony Comerota, MD – Chair
Peter Pappas, MD – Past Chair
Ruth Bush, MD
Cassius Chaar, MD
Nicos Labropoulos, PhD
Early Career Committee
Misaki Kiguchi, MD – Chair
John Carson, MD – Past Chair
Eric Hager, MD – Chair-Elect
Ahmad Alsheekh, MD
Robert Attaran, MD
Karem Harth, MD
Nasim Hedayati, MD
Pamela Kim, MD
Avi Bunnell, MD
Kathleen Ozsvath, MD
Daniel Monahan, MD
Ethics Committee
Elna Masuda, MD – Chair
Peter Henke, MD – Chair-Elect
Frank Padberg, MD – Past Chair
Harold Welch, MD
Mark Iafrati, MD
Finance Committee
Joe Raffetto, MD – Chair & Treasurer
William Marston, MD – President
Glenn Jacobowitz, MD – Past Treasurer
Ruth Bush, MD – Vice President
Mark Iafrati, MD – Secretary/Admin Council Chair
Antonios Gasparis, MD – AVF Past President
Guidelines Committee
Rafael Malgor, MD – Chair
Chandu Vemuri, MD – Past Chair
Linda Le, MD
Kush Desai, MD
Leo Sullivan, MD
Eleftherios Xenos, MD
Nicolas Mouawad, MD
Alessandra Puggioni, MD
Brian Rubin, MD
Yana Etkin, MD
Faisal Aziz, MD
Health Policy Committee
Sheila Coogan, MD – Chair
Greg Snyder, MD – Chair-Elect
Mark Iafrati, MD – Past Chair
Lowell Kabnick, MD
Kathleen Ozsvath, MD
Hal Welch, MD
Dan Monahan, MD
Eleftherios Xenos, MD
Nicolas Mouawad, MD
Nasim Hedayati, MD
Alessandra Puggioni, MD
John Carson, MD
Mark Iafrati, MD
International Committee
Tomasz Urbanek, MD – Chair
Jorge Ulloa, MD – Past Chair
Sameh Dimitri, MD
Julian J Javier, MD
Sebastian Cifuentes, MD
Alvaro Esteban Orrego, MD
Markiyan Soloviy, MD
Sergio Gianesini, MD
Victor Canata, MD
Sarah Onida, MD
Rebeca Reachi, MD
Viswanath Atreyapurapu, MD
Kathleen Ozsvath, MD
Membership Committee
Mona Li, MD – Chair
Anil Hingorani, MD – Past Chair
Pamela Kim, MD
Victor Canata, MD
Windsor Ting, MD
Linda Le, MD
Pavel Kibrick, MD
Young Erben, MD
Anahita Dua, MD
Lorraine Loretz, MD
Kathleen Ozsvath, MD
Newsletter Committee
Steven Elias, MD – Editor / Chair
Edgar Guzman, MD – Chair-Elect
Andrea Obi, MD
Eric Hager, MD
Anil Hingorani, MD
Lina Vargas, MD
Nicolas Mouawad, MD
Colleen Moore, MD
Natalie Sridharan, MD
William Raible, MD
Nominating Committee
William Marston, MD – President
Glenn Jacobowitz, MD – President-Elect
Antonios Gasparis, MD – Past President
Patient Education Committee
Beverley Chan, MD – Chair
Emily Malgor, MD – Chair-Elect
Alessandra Puggioni, MD – Past Chair
John Blebea, MD
Sandra Dickerson, MD
Albeir Mousa, MD
Roxana Katsini, MD
Mona Li, MD
Mark Rheudasil, MD
Louis Balkany, MD
Daniel Monahan, MD
Research Committee
Andrea Obi, MD – Chair
Windsor Ting, MD – Past Chair
Ulka Sachdev, MD
Peter Henke, MD
Andre Van Rij, MD
Limael Rodriguez, MD
Eri Fukaya, MD
Cassius Chaar, MD
Rafael Malgor, MD
Danielle Sutzko, MD
Erin Murphy, MD
Young Erben, MD
Faisal Aziz, MD
Strategic Planning Committee
Hal Welch, MD – Chair
William Marston, MD – President
Glenn Jacobowitz, MD – President Elect
Joe Raffetto, MD – Treasurer
Ruth Bush, MD – Vice President
Mark Iafrati, MD – Secretary/Admin Council Chair
Antonios Gasparis, MD – AVF Past President
West Coast Vein Forum Committee
Daniel Monahan, MD – Chair
Rick Pittman, MD
Stephani Dentoni, MD
Anne Luhan, MD
Bob Merchant, MD
Joel Crawford, MD
Tom McCrorey, MD
Dejah Judelson, MD
