This important media event has brought together vascular healthcare professionals from around the country to create the structure of the Coalition. These groups are some of the nation's top physicians and medical professional organizations dedicated to increasing public and health professional awareness of venous diseases.

The Vascular Disease Foundation (VDF) has taken the lead in creating this unique coalition in partnership with 19 other major national public health organizations and professional vascular societies. In addition to VDF, participating organizations include the American Association of Physician Assistants, American College of Cardiology, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Phlebology, American Society of Hematology, American Thrombosis Hemostasis Network, American Venous Forum, Anticoagulation Forum, National Alliance of Thrombosis and Thrombophilia, North American Thrombosis Forum, Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Interventional Radiology, Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, Society for Vascular Nursing, Society for Vascular Surgery and the Society of Vascular Ultrasound.

About the Venous Disease Coalition

The Venous Disease Coalition (VDC) is an alliance of leading health professional societies and patient advocacy groups that have united around a common goal: to improve the survival rates and quality of life for individuals with, or at risk for, venous disease. The VDC plans to develop a national campaign to educate the U.S. public and health care professionals about venous disease. For more information, visit www.venousdiseasecoalition.org.

About the Vascular Disease Foundation

The Colorado-based Vascular Disease Foundation is the only national organization with the sole purpose of educating the public about vascular diseases. It is the most trusted source of credible, scientific and non-biased information on vascular diseases. For more information, call 888.VDF.4INFO (888.833.4463) or visit
www.vdf.org.

About the Society of Interventional Radiology

Interventional radiologists are vascular experts who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. They offer the most in-depth knowledge of the least invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialties. They use X-rays, MRI and other imaging to advance a catheter in the body, usually in an artery or vein, to treat at the source of the disease non-surgically. As the inventors of angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine.

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