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Our Medical Advisors
| Dr. Steven Elias, Medical Advisor |
Dr. Steven Elias is a fellowship-trained vascular surgeon who is the Director of the Center for Vein Disease at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Elias is also Assistant Professor of Surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
His undergraduate training was at John Hopkins University. He then attended the University of Buffalo Medical School and continued his surgical residency training in Buffalo at the University of Buffalo—Millard Fillmore Hospital. He conducted his advanced specialty fellowship training in vascular surgery at the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
The majority of Dr. Elias’s clinical practice consists of the management of all aspects of vein disease. Techniques used to manage vein disease includes the use of laser and sclerotherapy (injections) for small spider veins to minimally invasive surgical techniques such as the TriVex procedure for the removal of varicose veins, the VNUS (closure) procedure, EVLT (endovenous laser therapy) for saphenous vein incompetence, and SEPS (Subfascial Endiscopic Perferator Surgery) for managing patients with non-healing wounds due to vein disease. He has published the results of these procedures and is on the faculty of courses teaching these minimally invasive techniques to other surgeons. He travels throughout the United States instructing as well as assisting other surgeons as they begin to perform these operations.
Dr. Elias is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the American Venous Forum as well as the New Jersey Vascular Society.
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| Dr. Ralf Kolvenbach, Medical Advisor |
Living and practicing in Duesseldorf, Germany, Dr. Ralf Kolvenbach serves as Chief of the Department of General and Vascular Surgery at Augusta Hospital. Dr. 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.
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| Gregory A. Spitz, M.D., F.A.C.S., Medical Advisor |
Gregory A. Spitz, M.D., F.A.C.S., a leading general surgeon, is the inventor of the surgical technique for varicose vein removal used with the TriVex System.
As a member of the Senior Attending and Teaching Staff at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, IL, Dr. Spitz specializes in minimally invasive vein surgery, advanced laparoscopy and minimally invasive hernia repair.
Dr. Spitz is a member of the American Medical Association and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is also a member of the Illinois State Medical Society, Kane County Medical Society (Secretary of Treasury, President-Elect, Board of Directors), Fox Valley Medicine (Board of Directors), the Warren Cole Surgical Society and the American College of Phlebology (member and speaker).
He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago, IL. His internship and residency were performed at the University of Illinois, Metropolitan Group Hospitals, Chicago, IL.
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