Please join us for this free online Symposium with Steven M. Dean, DO, FSVM, RPVI, on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at 1pm ET. Register on Zoom.

About our speaker

Steven M. Dean, DO, FSVM, RPVI, is the director of the Vascular Medicine Program, Director of Cardiovascular Medicine’s Noninvasive

Five institutions added to Centers of Excellence (COEs) in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lymphatic Diseases

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NEW YORK, NY – October 21, 2021 – LE&RN has announced five newly designated LE&RN Centers of Excellence in the

Dear Dr. Collins and Dr. Madera,

I am a Public Health nurse as well as an Episcopal priest. I write to you today as a chronic lymphedema/lipedema patient. I also write on behalf of my late brother. We both were born with lymphedema/lipedema. My brother died in 2020 from non-COVID-19

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Dr. Carolina Gutierrez is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. She realizes the importance of getting to know her patients and their

Dear Dr. Collins,

My son is 45. A father, husband, and an important part of the art and humanities world in Chicago.

He developed lymphedema possibly from a fall that infected his leg about ten years ago. He carried on his healthy life until 2 years ago when one leg began to swell and then

Dear Dr. Collins:

This is my story of so-called lymphatic disease. It reads the same as many but I am hoping that my letter will add to the impact of a system that has failed so many, including me. 

After being seen in the ER 11 years ago for chest pain. I was told I probably had an

Call for Papers: Lymphatic Pathophysiology

The journal Microcirculation will publish a Special Topics Issue on “Lymphatic Pathophysiology,” featuring the emerging role of lymphatics in the progression in disease states. This Special Issue represents a collaborative interest between the

NIH video below. Presentation by LE&RN President & CEO William Repicci begins at about the 16:00 mark. Transcript is provided beneath the video.

NIH-OSTP listening session on Advanced Research Project Agency—Health (ARPA-H) with focus on allergies and

Dear Dr. Madara and Dr. Collins:

I first encountered the disease of lower-limb lymphedema in my father, who complained of “this damn leg” as it swelled to twice its normal size from prostate cancer treatments. He was a professor of surgery at Yale. He died of his cancer before I was

Dear Dr. Collins, 

Thank you for taking the time to read my LE story.

In 1997, my dermatologist found a suspicious mole on the back of my left calf. The mole was surgically removed and the pathology report came back as “inconclusive” for
melanoma.

Subsequently, I was scheduled for surgery