Don’t miss the 2025 Venous Early Career Course!
On behalf of the American Venous Forum, we invite you to join us for the 2025 Venous Early Career Course to be held September 26-27, 2025 at the Radisson Blu in Chicago, IL. This unique program features small groups, live patient cases and hands-on workshops within an informal, collegial atmosphere. Approximately 50 residents, fellows, APP’s and early career venous physicians from around the country will join a faculty of venous disease experts and representatives from sponsoring companies to learn and grow as venous professionals within this highly interactive environment.
Lead Faculty
Steven Elias
MD, FACS, FABVLM
Steven Elias, MD, FACS, FABVLM is director of the Center for Vein Disease at Englewood Hospital. He is board certified in venous and lymphatic medicine and in general surgery and completed a fellowship in vascular surgery at Englewood Hospital. Educating new and current practitioners is the cornerstone of Dr. Elias’s commitment to modern vein care and its impact on patient outcomes. He is the founder of the AVF Fellows Course and the medical editor of the AVF’s VEIN Specialist newsletter. Dr. Elias’s clinical interests include all aspects of minimally invasive vein care; he is also committed to procedure development and teaching. He has lectured, written, and taught about vein disease both nationally and internationally. He has been principal investigator/investigator on numerous clinical trials and performed the first ClariVein procedure on a human.
Robert Attaran
MD, FACC, FSCAI
Robert Attaran, MD, FACC, FSCAI is Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Endovascular Fellowship Training Program at Yale University. Dr. Attaran chairs the American Venous Forum’s Early Career Committee and is a member of the AVF’s Newsletter Committee. He is a board member of the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine and serves on a venous and lymphatic working group. He is the Chair of the Chronic Disease Guidelines Committee and Working Group of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention.
