Scientific Advisory Board
Prof. Boris Yoffe, MD, FACS
Serves as the Head of the Department of General and Vascular Surgery at Barzilai Medical Center, Israel. He is also a lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Prof. Yoffe is a vascular and general surgery specialist and is experienced in surgical procedures for the repair of aneurysms and occlusions; he is also led successful medical R&D projects in the USA, the UK, and Israel. He was the pioneering surgeon in the development and clinical testing of the BYFix device. He has published 32 refereed scientific articles.
Prof. Yves-Marie Dion, MD, MSc, FACS, FRCSC
Prof. Dion is presently Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery at Laval University and is practicing at the Quebec City University Hospital Center (CHUQ), St-François d’Assise Hospital. Prof. Dion is member of numerous medical Societies. He delivered over 250 oral presentations internationally. He has published over 50 papers and 26 book chapters. His main interest now lies in the development of a laparoscopic and hybrid minimally invasive therapy for occlusive and aneurysmal diseases and he is the first president of the International Endovascular and Laparoscopic Society.
Prof. Ralph Kolvenbach, MD
Serves as Chief of the Department of General and Vascular Surgery at Augusta Hospital, Dusseldorf, Germany. Prof. Kolvenbach is also a Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Duesseldorf. He is affiliated with the German Board of Vascular Surgery as a Fellow, the European Society of Vascular Surgery as a full member, and the Royal Society of Medicine (UK) as a Fellow, among others.
Prof. Vladimir Cherniavskiy, MD
Serves as the Head of Angiology & Vascular Surgery, Postgraduate Medical Training Institute, Irkutsk, Russia.
Matthias Shneider, MD
Serves asthe Head of the Vascular Surgery department at Erfurt Helios Hospital, Germany.
