Lymphedema: What Do Patients Experience in the Healthcare System? - LE&RN Symposium

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Lymphedema: What Do Patients Experience in the Healthcare System?
Presented by Stanley G. Rockson, M.D. & Catharine Bowman, BHSc. (Hon.)

Dr. Stanley G. Rockson is the Allan and Tina Neill Professor of Lymphatic Research and Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, a LE&RN Comprehensive Center of Excellence. He completed his internship, residency, and fellowship training at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rockson has been involved in numerous clinical trials researching various aspects of lymphatic disease and is the Editor-in-Chief of Lymphatic Research and Biology, the official journal of LE&RN. Dr. Rockson is a co-founder of LE&RN, works closely with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance the agenda for lymphatic research, and has authored more than 250 publications devoted to various aspects of lymphatic biology and disease, vascular biology, and cardiovascular medicine.

Catharine Bowman is a master's student in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University and an MD student at the University of Calgary. Inspired by her mother's lymphedema (LE) diagnosis and the promise to one day develop a pharmacological treatment for this disease, at the age of only fifteen Catharine founded a national team of clinicians and scientists to pursue this work. Today, Catharine's research focuses on the epidemiology of lymphatic disease (LD), LE therapeutics, psychosocial manifestations, and surgical treatment of LE. Through her speaking campaign, Let's Talk Lymphedema, Catharine has presented internationally on LE. In 2022, Catharine was awarded the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at Stanford University.

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LE&RN's mission is to fight lymphatic diseases through education, research, and advocacy. We seek to accelerate the prevention, treatments and cures for lymphedema, lipedema, lymphatic anomalies, and the continuum of lymphatic diseases.

About LE&RN

The Lymphatic Education & Research Network (LE&RN) is an internationally recognized non-profit organization founded in 1998 to fight lymphatic disease (LD) through education, research, and advocacy. Lymphatic diseases include lymphedema (LE), lipedema, and lymphatic anomalies. LE&RN is equally committed to investigating preventive and therapeutic benefits for a broad array of diseases that are impacted by lymphatic function, such as heart disease, obesity, AIDS, Rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and cancer metastasis.

To accomplish these goals, LE&RN sponsors research fellowship grants, an international patient registry and biorepository, live-stream symposiums, the peer-reviewed journal Lymphatic Research & Biology, weekly e-newsletters, scholarship grants to lymphedema therapists, conference travel awards to young researchers, and a vibrant website with features such as Ask the Experts, connecting patients with the field’s more renowned practitioners. LE&RN has Chapters and Centers of Excellence globally. In 2016, LE&RN created World Lymphedema Day on March 6th, which was established by unanimous vote of the United States Senate.

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