Marianne De Maeseneer MD PhD, vascular surgeon, retired from clinical work in June 2017, but remains connected to the section of Phlebology, at the Department of Dermatology at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands. As to clinical research she initially studied the problem of recurrent varicose veins after surgical treatment and this resulted in her PhD thesis, which she defended in 2005. Her academic interests have further focused on treatment strategies for varicose veins, prevention of recurrence, the use of duplex ultrasound before and after intervention, management of post-thrombotic syndrome and anomalies of the inferior vena cava.
She has authored and co-authored over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and wrote several chapters in different textbooks, in English, Dutch and Spanish. She has served as Associate Editor for the European Journal for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery for the past 9 years, handling manuscripts about venous topics, and chaired the new 2022 ESVS Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of chronic venous disease (published February 2022).
At present, she remains active in education and research, being committed in different international projects and meetings in the field of phlebology.
mdmaesen@gmail.com