Argentina

Sociedad Argentina de Flebologia y Linfologia
Avenida Santa Fe 1171
Capital Federal - Buenos Aires  - CP1059, Argentina

President: Armando Schapira
Vice President: Daniel Balboni
Secretary General: Felix Pace

info@sociedadflebologia.com
www.sociedadflebologia.com

Year of foundation: 1968 by Saul Umansky, Eduardo Ayas, Isidoro Caplan

Australia/New Zealand

President: G. Mark Malouf
Vice President: Michael Stacey/George Somsen

Email: anzphleb@pnc.com.au

Year of foundation:1974 by Peter Conrad, William Campell

Australasian College of Phlebology
Suite 1602, Level 16, Westfield Tower 1, 520 Oxford St., Bondi Junction, NSW 2022
(T): (+612) 9386-1811 - (F): (+612) 9386-1822

Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Phlebologie
Secretariat: IFC Ilona Fuchs Congress
P.O. Box 6, 1106 Vienna, Austria
Email: congress@chello.at

President: Sanja Schuller-Petrovic
Email: schuller1@vienna.at

Vice President: Wolfgang Salmhofer
Treasurer: Christiane Stöberl
Secretary: Susanne Scholz

www.phlebologie-gesellschaft.at (in progress)

Year of foundation: 1986 by Hugo Partsch, Walter Feuerstein, Norbert Zinnagl and Christiane Stöberl

Belgium (see Benelux)

Société Bénéluxienne de Phlébologie/Benelux Vereniging voor Flebologie
President: Anja Sommer
Secretary: Marianne De Maeseneer
Treasurer: Ivan Staelens
Avenue du domaine, 23 bte 2
B1190    Bruxelles

www.phlebologybenelux.org

Email: gina.clerx@uza.be

asom@sder.azm.nl

ivan.staelens@skynet.be

La Société Beneluxienne de Phlébologie a été crée en 1957 par :
M. Vigoni (BE) ; E. Imminck (NL) ; J.P Van der Stricht (BE) ; H van der Molen (NL) ;
A. Hue (BE) ; H. de Reus (NL) et A Zoller (L)

Brazil

Sociedade Brasileira de Flebologia e Linfologia
Rua Santa Clara, 494, Sorocaba SP, Brasil 18035-421

President: Solange Gomes
Vice President: Angelo Scuderi
Email: angelo.scuderi@flebologiabrasil.com.br

www.flebologiabrasil.com.br

Publication: Revista Brasileira de Flebologia e Linfologia

Canada

Canadian Society of Phlebology/Société Canadienne de Phlébologie
424, du Domaine, Saint-Bruno, Quebec, J3V 2S4 Canada

President: Pauline Raymond-Martimbeau
Vice President : Jean-Luc Dupuis
Secretary General: Jean Gilbert
Treasurer: Douglas A. Hill

Email: pmartimbo@aol.com
phlebology@sympatico.ca
www.scphlebologie.org

Year of Foundation: 1973 by Gilles Cloutier
Publication: Canadian Society of Phlebology – Newsletter
Société canadienne de Phlébologie - Bulletin

Chile

Chilean Foundation of Phlebology and Lymphology
President: Mario Bravo-Martinez
Nva Costanera DPTO81D, Santiago, Chile

Colombia

President: Jorge Ulloa Dominguez, M.D.
Calle 57 #22-02, Santa Fe de Bogota, Columbia

The Croatia Society of Phlebology
President: Ivan Drescik
Kumièaeava 41b
CROATIA-5100 Rijeka

Czech Society of Phlebology
President: Jaroslav Strejček
Bezrucova 1865, 25101 Ricany u Prahy

Email: strejcek@ri.ipex.cz

Denmark (see Scandinavia)

Ecuador

No information available

F

Finland (see Scandinavia)

Société Française de Phlébologie
46, rue Saint-Lambert, F-75015 Paris

President: Michel Schadeck
Vice President: Françoise A. Allaert/ Jean-J. Guex
Secretary General: Emanuel Blin
Treasurer: Jean-Patrick Benigni

Email: sfphlebo@club-internet.fr
www.sf-phlebologie.org

Year of foundation: 1947 by Raymond Tournay
Publication: Phlébologie – Annales vasculaires

G

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phlebologie
c/o Frau Fischer, Lippestr. 9-11
D-26548 Norderney

Email: dgp-fischer@t-online.de

President: Eberhard Rabe
Universitäts-Hautklinik, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25,
D-53127 Bonn-Venusberg
Email: eberhard.rabe@ukb.uni-bonn.de

Vice President: Markward Marshall
Tegernseer Str. 101, D-83700 Rottach-Egern (Weissach)
Email: ProfDrMarshall@aol.com

Secretary General: Lutz Schimmelpfennig
Steigerwaldklinik Burgebrach
Am Eichelberg 1, D-96138 Burgebrach
Email: dr.schimmelpfennig@steigerwaldklinik.de

Treasurer: Horst Gerlach
T6, 25, D-68161 Mannheim
Email: drgerlach@t-online.de

www.dgphlebologie.de

Year of foundation: 1957 by Erich Krieg and others
Publication: Phlebologie

H

Hungary

Hungarian Society of Phlebology

President: G. Acsady
c/o Semmelweiss University
Varosmajor 68, H-Budapest

Indonesia

Indonesian Society for Phlebology and Microcirculation (PFMI)

President: Lily I. Rilantono
JI Ciniru VI/13, 12180 Jakarta, Indonesia
Email: rilant@cbn.net.id

Israel

Society of Phlebology
President: Robert Cohen
1, Zeitlin Street, Tel Aviv, Israel

Italy

Collegio Italiano di Flebologia
Via P. Borsieri 12 - 00195 Rome, Italy
Tel. +39.06.3700541 - Fax + 39.06. 37352337
e-mail: allegra@mclink.it

www.cif.net

www.flebologi.it

Presidente: Claudio Allegra
Vice Presidenti: Leonardo Corcos - Pierluigi Mollo - Paolo Zamboni
Segretario: Stefano de Franciscis

Anno di Fondazione: 1996
Rivista: Acta Phlebologica

J

Japan

Japanese Society of Phlebology

President: Shunichi Hoshino
Fukushima Medical University
Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery
Hikarigoka 1
960-1295 Fukushima

www.js-phlebology.org

Korea

The Korean Society of Phlebology (KSP)

President: Jang Sang Park
Division of Vascular Surgery
Dpt. of Surgery
College of Medicine
The Catholic University of Korea
505 Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu
Seoul 137-040, Korea

www.koreavein.or.kr

Email: webmaster@koreavein.or.kr
johnpark@catholic.ac.kr

Luxembourg (see Benelux)

Mexico

Sociedad Mexicana de Angiologia y Cirugia Vascular A.C.
Angel Urraza 523-306, Col. Del Valle, 03100 Mexico, D.F.

President: Erick Carlos Velasco Ortega
Secretario General: Elizabeth Enriquez Vega
Email: smacv@data.net.mx

Publication: Revista Mexicana de Angiologia

N

Netherlands (see Benelux)

New Zealand (see Australia)

Norway (see Scandinavia)

Paraguay

Sociedad Paraguaya de Flebologia y Linfologia

President: Fernando Montero-Bray
Av. Mcal Lopez 246
Asuncion, Paraguay

Peru

SociedadPeruana de Flebologia y Linfologia

President: Juan Chunga-Chunga
Av. Garcilazo de la Vega 911 of. 201
Lima 1, Peru
Email: jchungavarices@hotmail.com

Philippines

The Venous Forum of the Philippines

President: Florimond A. Garcia
2 Orion Corner Mercedes Street
Bel Air Village
Makata City, Philippines

Poland

Polish Phlebological Society/Polskie Towarzystwo Flebologiczne

Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology
ul. Ceglowska 80
01-809 Warszawa, Poland
Email: w.staszkiewicz@interia.pl
www.ptf.org.pl

President: Walerian Staszkiewicz
Vice President: Zbigniew Rybak
Secretary General: Grzegorz Madycki
Treasurer: Wlodzimierz Hendiger

Year of foundation: 1991 by Tomasz Drazkiewicz
Publication: Phlebological Review/ Przeglad Flebologiczny

Portugal

Sociedade Portuguesa de Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular
Portuguese Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery

Website: www.spacv.org

Information:
President - Dr. Joaquim Barbosa
Vice-President - Dr. Rui Almeida
General Secretary - Prof. Doutor Armando Mansilha
Treasurer - Dr. Amílcar Mesquita
Postal address - Av. João Crisóstomo, nº 30, 5º andar
1050-127 Lisboa
Portugal
Phone - 00351 21 330 37 20
Fax - 00351 21 330 37 33
E-mail - spacv@sapo.pt

National meeting in 2009 - IX Congress of the Portuguese Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery
Funchal 18-20 June
UIP Representative - Prof. Doutor Armando Mansilha

Romania

Romanian Society of Phlebology
Bvd. Liviu Rebreanu 156, 300723 Timisoara
Email: flebologie@yahoo.com

President: Vasile Ivan
Vice President: Aurel Andercou, Valerian Clubotaru, Florin Calota

Year of foundation: 1979 by Pius Brinzeu, Petru Ignat and others

Russia

Russian Society of Phlebology

President: Victor Saveljev
State University
Leninsky Prospect 8-1
117049 Moscow

Scandinavia

Scandinavian Venous Forum
c/o Niels Baekgaard, Dept. of Vascular Surgery, Gentofte Hospital,
DK-2900 Hellerup, Denmark

President: Olle Nelzén
Secretary: Niels Baekgaard
Treasurer: Rolf Jelnes
Email: olle.nelzen@vgregion.se

Year of foundation: 1963 by Gunnar Bauer and Knud Haeger

Spain

Spanish Chapter of Phlebology/Capitulo Espaňol de Flebologia de la S.E.A.C.V.
Onze de Setembre 17E
E-8391 Tiana Barcelona

President: A. Masegosa
Vice President: V. Ibanez, J. Escudero
Secretary: P. Carreno
Treasurer: J. Pacho

www.capitulodeflebologia.org

Year of foundation: 1989

Sweden (see Scandinavia)

Switzerland

Swiss Society of Phlebology (SSP)
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Phlebologie
Société Suisse de Phlébologie
Società Svizzera di Flebologia

President: Stefan Küpfer
Venenzentrum
Medizinisches Zentrum
CH-7310 Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Email: kuepfer.ragaz@bluewin.ch

Secretary General: Philippe Kern
29, rue de la Madeleine
CH-1800 Vevey, Switzerland
Email: phkern@bluewin.ch

Treasurer: Paolo Cassina

www.phlebology.ch

Year of foundation: 1969 by Alfred Bolliger and others
Publication: Phlebologie

The Netherlands (see Benelux)

Turkey

Fleboloji Dernegi
Denizaptal Mah. Köprülü Mehmet Pasa Sok. Dadasoglu Apt.
No: 25/1-3 Sehremini – Istanbul, Turkey

President : Mehmet H. Kurtoglu
Email: metlevkurt@superonline.com

Vice President: A. Selcuk Baktiroglu
Secretary General: Fatih A. Genc
Treasurer: Hakan T. Yanar

www.flebolojidernegi.org

Year of foundation: 1998 by Metin Özgür
Publication: Fleboloji Dergisi

United Kingdom

Venous Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine
1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
Email: venous@rsm.ac.uk

President: Richard Corbett
Vice President: Jonothan Earnshaw
Secretary: Tim Lees
Treasurer: Michael Callum

www.rsm.ac.uk/venous

Year of foundation: 1983
Publication: Phlebology

United States of America

American College of Phlebology (ACP)
101 Callan Avenue, Suite 210
San Leandro, California
Ph. 510.346.6800 - Fax 510.346.6808

President: Robert J. Min
Vice President: Nick Morrison
Secretary: Tri H. Nguyen
Treasurer: John Mauriello
Email: acp@amsinc.org
www.phlebology.org
Year of Foundation: 1985
Magazines: Vein Line, Official Newsletter of the College, Phlebology Journal, Venous Digest

American Venous Forum (AVT)
President: Thomas W. Wakefield
University of Michigan Medical Center
1500 E. Medical Ctr. Dr., THCC 2210
Ann Arbor, MI 28109-0329 U.S.A.
Email: thomasww@umich.edu

Secretary: Joann M. Lohr
Lohr Surgical Specialists
6350 Glenway Ave., #208
Cicinnati, OH 45211-6378 U.S.A.
Email: jlohr@lohrss.com

Treasurer: Joseph A. Caprini
Evanston Hospital
2650 Ridge Ave., Burch 104
Evanston, IL 60201 U.S.A.

www.venous-info.com

Year of foundation: 1988
Publication: The American Venous Forum Newsletter (AV Forum)

Venezuela

Sociedad Venezolana de Flebologia
President: Roberto Varnagy
Hospital de Clinicas Caracas
Piso 2
Consultorio 202
Caracas, Venezuela

rvarnagy@telcel.net.ve