We are very proud to announce the second Venous KOL Forum in the series!

Key Opinion Leader Forum 7: Venous

You will be able to pose your questions to our panel: KOLs Stephen Black and Marie Josee van Rijn, as well as Efthymios Avgerinos, the Venous Pathway Lead.

KOL Forum 7: Venous ticket – Members only event

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Objective:

Do you have a challenging case? Are you unsure how to treat venous issues? Do you want a different perspective? Are you a member? Then you are welcome join our new KOL Forum to hear how a KOL would treat your case! This is an educational initiative for those with moderate to advanced vascular surgery knowledge. It allows participants to ask and get a response to burning questions on moderate to difficult cases by either submitting them for possible selection in the Forum, or via the KOL Forum case library. You can also just join and learn! The sessions are designed to:

Provide more advanced training to experienced surgeons
Provide a rare opportunity to interact with THE experts in a field
Receive advice on personal cases
Be informal spaces
Be exclusive for members
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This Venous KOL Forum. the seventh in the series, will host Stephen Black and Marie Josee van Rijn. for this purpose.

Marie Josee van Rijn:Marie Josee van Rijn is a vascular and endovascular surgeon as well as an epidemiologist and works at the Erasmus Medical Centre. She is section editor of venous and vascular access for the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. She has set up a deep venous expert team at the Erasmus University Medical Centre, Netherlands, in close collaboration with the departments of dermatology, haematology and interventional radiology, where patients with leg/pelvic venous disease are treated with the latest techniques like mechanical thrombectomy and/or stenting. She is one of the founding KOLs of EveR; European Venous Registry and part of a large Dutch collaboration for research on pelvic venous disorders. She was in the writing committee of the ESVS guidelines on chronic venous disease, as well as the Dutch venous guideline update. She is on the board of the European Venous Forum and the Benelux Society of Phlebology.

Professor Stephen Black: Stephen is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital and a Professor of Venous Surgery at Kings College, London. He is the Site Lead for Surgery at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital and the Co-Research & Development Lead for the Cardiovascular Directorate (Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery). He was Clinical Lead for Vascular Surgery for 4 years (2019-2023). Stephen’s principal clinical interest is the treatment of Venous Disease. He has established a large practice in the treatment of both Acute and Chronic Deep Venous Disease as well as superficial venous disorders and together with a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team of colleagues at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital is part of one of the largest such services in Europe. He is programme director for European Venous Forum Hands on Workshops (EVF HOW) and Charing Cross Vascular Symposium Venous Programme. He was Venous Tutor for ESVS, 2014-2018 and was an examiner for the Fellowship of the European Board of Vascular  Surgery. Stephen is Global & UK Principal Investigator for a number of ongoing trials and is actively involved in research to improve treatment of patients with Venous Disease and has been involved in a number of first in-man procedures.

Registration and Cancellation policy: This is a free event for members only and pre-registration is required. You do not have to submit a case to be able to register, but the success of the event relies on your interesting cases and you won’t even have to present it! Simply reserve your place above or get in touch with us at info@esvs.org.

Sending us your case: If you want a chance to have yours selected, please send it in, using the case submission template (sticking to the number of slides as much as possible, order can be changed), to ciara@esvs.org by Friday 6th June. If your case is selected for the event, you will be awarded a FREE Academy workshop ticket of your choice, at the 2025 Annual Meeting (except CCVUS; the European Triathlon; EVST Cup and the collaborative session with NOTSS)! The Annual Meeting takes place this year in Istanbul, Türkiye 23rd – 26th September 2025.

Let us know if you want to remain anonymous; have your case explained by the KOL; or whether you prefer to take a few minutes to introduce your case on the day. The panel will then review and select two of the most interesting and appropriate cases for the session and show you how it could be done!  There will be time at the end for questions from the audience about these and other venous cases. Keep any eye on our KOL Forum case library and social media as cases will be added before and after the event, to start the discussion between you and the KOLs.

Where registration numbers are too low to run the event, this will be announced on the website no later than 48 hours before the event starts. Please be aware that the online session will be recorded and following the session we may share the recording across social media and communication platforms and in our ESVS Library. If you don’t wish to appear on these recordings, please ensure your camera is switched off prior to the start of the session.

CME: CME accreditation is not being sought for this course.

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