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2 July

Linda Rozell-Shannon

Dr. Linda is the President and Founder of the Vascular Birthmarks Foundation (VBF). She founded VBF because her own daughter, Christine, was born in 1994, with a hemangioma. She became a medical nomad wandering from doctor to doctor, state to state, to find answers. That was when Dr. Linda realized that there was a void that needed to be filled. In addition to founding VBF, she also pursued a PhD in Education with a dissertation that focused on the stress mothers experience from having a child with a facial hemangioma. She completed her PhD in 2008. She has co-authored two books on the subject, numerous medical journals, and chapters in medical textbooks. She also established the VBF iTeam (an international team of experts that she assembles to travel around the world and educate physicians regarding the diagnosis and treatment of vascular anomalies). In 2015 she pursued a grant to assemble the leading team of experts regarding vascular anomalies together to create the first ever comprehensive on-line course in vascular anomalies. This module is one component of the course you know as “A Foundation in Vascular Anomalies.”