Can Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI) Increase the Risk of Lymphedema?

Date: January 02, 2026

Description: LE&RN presents its first-ever Fireside Chat, featuring a candid conversation with Stanley G. Rockson, MD, the Allan and Tina Neill Professor of Lymphatic Research and Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine—one of the world’s leading experts in lymphatic and venous diseases. Hosted by Veronica P. Seneriz, LE&RN’s Director of Patient Services, this talk explores how Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI)— when vein valves don’t work properly and blood pools in the legs — can increase the risk of developing lymphedema.

About the speaker: Dr. Rockson is the Allan and Tina Neill Professor of Lymphatic Research and Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. After earning his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, Dr Rockson completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts, and fellowship training in the cardiac unit of Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American College of Angiology, and American College of Physicians, as well as a member of the International Society of Lymphology, American Society of Internal Medicine, the Society of Vascular Medicine and Biology, and the Paul Dudley White Society, among others.