ASL Consensus Document Meeting
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In an effort to clarify the treatment guidelines for lymphedema and identify the parameters of lymphedema care, the American Society of Lymphology hosted a three hour meeting for the purpose of creating an American Consensus Document prior to their annual conference in Kansas City last November.

It was an open forum open to all those making contributions to the lymphedema community including products, therapy and education for both patients and therapists. There were 30 presentations and each presenter was given four minutes to express his/her opinion on what needed to be included in this document.



American Consensus Document Meeting ~ November 26, 2007

Introduction - Janet Baker, Executive Director American Society of Lymphology
Section I - Methods of Diagnosis: Clinical Assessment and Laboratory Assessment
1) Joseph A. Caprini, MD, FACS, RVT, FACPh, Professor of Surgery, Feinburg School of Medicine, Northwestern Unviersity, Chicago, IL
2) Simon J. Simonian, MD, ScM, ScD, FACS, FRCSE, Georgetown University, Kidney Transplant Surgeon and Phlebologist
3) Jane Armor, PhD, Professor University of Missouri, Columbia
4) Charles L. McGarvey, PT, MS, DPT, FAPTA, President, CLM Consulting Services LLC, Rockville, MD; recently retired
5) Naoki Unno, MD, PhD, Director of Vascular Surgery, Hamamatsu, Japan

Section II - Staging and Classification of Lymphedema
6) Renato Kasseroller, MD standing in for Eric Brenner, MD.
7) Waldemar Olszewski, MD PhD, Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Professor of Surgery, Warsaw, Poland
8) Cheryl L. Morgan, PhD, Executive Director, Integrative Therapy Concepts, LLC, Prairie Village, Kansas
9) Renato G. Kasseroller, MD, Bringmann Akademie, Bad Wildungen, Salzburg, Austria
10) Benoit Blondeau, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri.

Section III - Treatment Protocols: Non-Operative and Operative
11) Wade Farrow, MD, Medical Director, Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center, College Station, TX
12) Maggie Thompson, RN, Tactile Technologies
13) Professor Neil B. Piller, Director Lymphoedema Assessment Clinic, Flinders Surgical Oncology Clinic, Adelaide, Australia

Section IV - Post Treatment Recommendations
14) Robert Weiss, M.S., Lymphedema Treatment Advocate, NLN Lymph Science Advocacy Program
15) Franz-Joseph Schingale, MD, Medical Director Lympho-opt Clinic, Pommelsbrunn-Hohenstadt Lymphology Clinic, Germany
16) Jeremy E. Baptist, MD, PhD, President and Medical Director Allergy Link, PA, Overland Park, Kansas
17) JoAnn Rovig, CLT-LANA, Founder Northwest Lymphedema Patient Education Center, President JoViPak Corporation, Kent, WA.
18) Robert Irons, PhD, Vice-President of Research & Development Springreen Product, Inc., North Kansas City, MO.
19) Linda Miller, PhD, Physical Therapist Private Practice, Clinical Director Breast Cancer PT Center, Philadelphia, PA.
20) Edward Stout, PhD, Organic Chemistry with research on the development of Wound Care Products
21) Byung-Boong (B.B.) Lee, MD, PhD, FACS, Clinica Professor Surgery, Georgetown University
22) Glen Talboy, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO.

Section V - Education of Professionals
23) Laura Flint, PT., CLT, Clinical Director Specialty Physical Therapy, Murrells Inlet, SC.
24) Emily Iker d'Harnocourt, MD, President and Medical Director Lymphedema Treatment Center, Santa Monica, California
25) Joseph L. Feldman, MD, Assistant Professor Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
26) Paula Stewart, MD, Dr. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Director Lake Shore Rehab Hospital, Chattanooga, TN
27) Guenter Klose, Certified Lymphedema Therapist and Certified Lymphedema Instructor, Klose Training and Consulting
28) Anne Marie Valliant-Newman, MA/PT, Director of Coast to Coast School of Lymphedema Management, a division of Pacific Therapy Education, Inc.

Section VI - Education of Patients
29) Madelaine Chaitlaine, OTR/L, DCT-LANA, MTPT, Hilton Head Occupational Therapy Myofascial Rehabilitiation & Lymphedema Services
30) Lynn Fass, RN, CLT, President Northwest Lymphedema Center, Kent, WA., Lymphedema Patient, Therapist and Patient Educator