Clinical Advisory Board

Professor Venermo is head of the department of vascular surgery at Helsinki University Hospital. Her research concerns registry studies aiming to evaluate the quality of vascular surgical service as well as international variation in practice. Professor Venermo is currently the Secretary General of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) and has been a member, or other role, of eleven national/international committees, councils and boards. She has been named on 276 publications in the field of vascular surgery.

Professor Nikol trained in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery early in her career, then became an interventional cardiologist and interventional vascular physician. She is Head of Department of Interventional Angiology, St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg Germany. She worked in the early nineties with the pioneer of angiogenesis therapy, Jeffrey Isner MD in Boston, USA. She has over 30 years of experience in translational angiogenesis research, which includes preclinical work and active roles in numerous clinical angiogenesis trials, as Principal Investigator as well as being a member of numerous Steering Committees or Advisory Boards. She has authored more than 231 publications in the cardiovascular field including current guidelines. She is past-president of the European Society for Vascular Medicine (ESVM), a member of the German Angiology Society, and the International Andreas Gruentzig Society.

Robert is a Clinical Professor of Vascular Surgery at Bristol Medical School, and the Chair for the Research for Patient Benefit Southwest region. Robert is Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Bristol. He is Honorary Consultant Vascular Surgeon in the Bristol, Bath, Weston Vascular Network. He is an academic vascular surgeon with an interest in diabetes related complications of the lower limb and peripheral artery disease. His research interest is in clinical trials and the evaluation of innovative technologies in surgery. He has led NIHR HTA funded trials in vascular disease and is currently editor of British Journal of Surgery. He has co-chaired the guideline development group for International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot and is a member of the European Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Global Vascular Guidelines Group.

Marc P. Bonaca, MD, MPH is a Cardiologist and Vascular Medicine Specialist who serves as the Executive Director of CPC Clinical Research and CPC Community Health at the University of Colorado. He is the Director of Vascular Research and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the inaugural holder of the William R. Hiatt Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Research. He is a member of the Society of Vascular Medicine, American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA). He currently serves on the ACC PVD Leadership Council and is an associate editor for the Vascular Medicine.

Professor Lantis II, MD, is currently the site Chief and Professor of Surgery at Mount Sinai West Hospital, and the Icahn School of Medicine; in mid-town Manhattan where he practices as a senior vascular surgeon. He is the past president of the New York Vascular Surgery Society, a founding member of the American Board of Wound Medicine and Surgery, and the Vascular Study Group of New York. He is a world leader in limb salvage and lower extremity wound healing and has been a principal investigator on over 70 clinical trials.

Joseph L. Mills, M.D. is a board-certified vascular surgeon in Houston, Texas specializing in diabetic foot amputation prevention and limb salvage. Dr. Mills has authored nearly 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, focused on his clinical and research interests in non-invasive diagnosis, vein graft stenosis, intimal hyperplasia and limb-salvage in patients with diabetes mellitus. He has been the principal investigator for over 40 clinical trials, including a number of current investigations.

Professor Edmonds is a Consultant Physician at King’s College Hospital in London with a special responsibility for care of the diabetic foot. He developed a multi-disciplinary diabetic foot clinic in 1981, one of the first in the world. He won the Karel Bakker award at the 6^th International Symposium on the Diabetic Foot in 2011 and more recently in 2013 the DFSG Achievement Award. He has also won the Edward James Olmos award for the advocacy in amputation prevention at the DF Con 2014 and gave the Arnold Bloom lecture at Diabetes UK in 2015.

Professor Bain is the Clinical Director of the Diabetes Research Unit at Swansea University and Medical Director for Research & Development for Swansea Bay University Health Board. He is also the Chair of the National Specialist Advisory Group (NSAG) for Diabetes in Wales and has been Chief Investigator for several multi-centre trials investigating novel therapies for diabetes; these include LEADER, SUSTAIN 6, PIONEER 6 and most recently SOUL. Professor Bain completed his undergraduate training at St John's College, Cambridge, and then was clinically trained at King's College Hospital, London. On qualifying in 1983, he went on to hold junior appointments in London, the East Midlands, and the West Midlands, UK. His research centred on the genetics of type 1 diabetes, and he was granted a Medical Research Council Lectureship. In 1993, he became a Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant Physician at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, with promotion to Reader in Diabetic Medicine in 1998. Professor Bain became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians UK in 1996. Professor Bain was appointed to a newly created Chair in Medicine (Diabetes) in the University of Wales Swansea in 2005. His clinical interests include the genetics of diabetic nephropathy, new therapies for diabetes and the provision of diabetes services within the community.