FDRS Leadership Team

FDRS has assembled a dedicated team of experts for its Board of Directors and Medical & Scientific Advisory Board.  We are proud to have the world’s leading medical researchers and practitioners on Rare Adipose Disorders volunteer their expertise and guide our efforts.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Damien Moore, President

Catherine Seo, Vice President

Tina Tranfaglia, Treasurer

Dina Green, Secretary

Karen L. Hebst, Ph.D., M.D., Chief Medical/Scientific Advisor

MEDICAL & SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD   

Håkan Brorson, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Senior Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Sweden

Professor (Esculera de Graduados, Asociación Médica Argentina, Buenos Aires)

Expertise: Surgery, liposuction and research in Dercum’s disease

 

Carolyn Fife, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology (Clinical N/T), The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, USA

Hermann Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine, Director of Clinical Research, Hermann Center for Environmental, Aerospace and Industrial Medicine, USA

Expertise: Treatment of lymphedema and lipedema; wound care and hyperbaric medicine

 

David Guertin, Ph.D.     

Assistant Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA

Expertise: Animal models of lipomatosis

 

Emma Hansson, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Expertise: Surgery, liposuction and research in Dercum’s disease

 

Karen L. Herbst, Ph.D., M.D.

Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA

Director, Weight Control Clinic, VA San Diego Healthcare System

Expertise: Clinical treatment of and research on RADs

 

Stefan Rapprich, M.D.

Surgeon and Senior Consultant, Department of Dermatology and Klinikum Darmsdadt GmbH, Darmsdadt, Germany

Expertise: Liposuction of lipedema

 

Eva Sevick-Muraca, Ph.D.

Professor and Cullen Chair in Molecular Medicine, University of Texas, Houston, USA
Director, Center for Molecular Imaging; National Cancer Institute Network for Translational Research

Expertise: Near Infrared Fluorescent Imaging of the lymphatic system

 

Ola Winqvist, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Karolinska Institute, Department of Medicine Solna, Translational Immunology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Expertise: Immune function in RADs