David H. Keast BSc, MSc, Dip Ed, MD, CCFP, FCFP(LM)

Dr. Keast, a native of London, Ontario, Canada, graduated from Western University with a Masters Degree in Chemistry and taught high school for 11 years before entering Queen’s University (Canada) to study medicine, graduating in 1985.

He is a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He practised Family Medicine for 25 years before focusing his practice on chronic wound and lymphoedema management. He is currently the Medical Director of the Outpatient Chronic Wound Management Clinic at the Parkwood Institute, London. Dr. Keast is Clinical Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and Associate Scientist in the Parkwood Research Institute, part of the Lawson Health Research Institute.

He has research interests in wound assessment tools, and the nature and characteristics of people living with lymphoedema. He has participated in multiple clinical trials. Dr. Keast is a founding board member and Past President of the Canadian Association of Wound Care (now Wounds Canada), the founding co-chair of the Canadian Lymphedema Framework and one of the founding members of the World Alliance for Wound and Lymphedema Care in cooperation with the World Health Organization. Dr. Keast is an internationally recognized educator and has published over 90 papers and eight book chapters.

Dr. Keast joined the ILF Board in June 2018.

Anna Kennedy

Anna spent 30 years in corporate senior management, working in the areas of training and communications for international companies like Thomas Cook and American Express. Her last business role was Vice-President with Indigo-Chapters, Canada’s largest retail book store, before she transitioned to the charitable sector in 2006.

Anna is now well entrenched within the lymphedema community on multiple levels. She is a Founding Director of the Canadian Lymphedema Framework and provides leadership in her role as both the CLF’s Executive Director and Editor of Pathways – Canada`s lymphedema magazine. She was appointed in 2012 to the Board of the International Lymphoedema Framework and since 2015 has been serving in her role on the ILF Executive Committee as Executive Secretary. Her contributions to the ILF include communications and conference organization. She was responsible for organizing the first International Lymphoedema Framework conference outside of England – (2011 Canada) and has been on the organizing committees of all the ILF subsequent conferences.

In 2012, Anna was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her leadership and contribution to the lives of Canadians. As a cancer survivor, living with lymphedema, Anna advocates healthy living and a positive attitude to help manage her life-long condition. She has presented on patient advocacy initiatives at numerous national and international conferences.

Susan Nørregaard RN, DH

Susan is a specialist nurse in wound healing and lymphoedema working at Bispebjerg University Hospital in Copenhagen. She graduated from Sankt Lukas Stiftelsens Nursing School in Hellerup in 1988. Together with Professor Finn Gottrup and other collaborators, she established the Copenhagen Wound Healing Center in 1996 working as staff nurse in the outpatient clinic, with clinical responsibility for the development of clinical guidelines for the treatment of venous leg ulcers.

Susan has 25 years of experience in treating chronic oedema and in 2006, she established the first multidisciplinary lymphoedema clinic in Denmark, at the Copenhagen Wound Healing Center together with Dr. Tonny Karlsmark and Dr. Bo Jørgensen.

Together with Dr. Tonny Karlsmark she established the Danish Lymphoedema Framework in 2010 and she has been an ILF board member since 2011.

Susan has been a teacher at postgraduate education for healthcare professionals in Copenhagen and has developed teaching programmes for nurses treating patients with compression therapy. She has coordinated several international research projects and has been author and co-author on scientific articles.

Professor Isabelle Quéré MD, PhD

Isabelle is a physician, Professor of Vascular Medicine at the University of Montpellier in France where she is Head of the Vascular and Lymphology Medicine Department.

Her main research areas include venous thromboembolism (VTE) disease, lymphatic and venous post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS), and rare vascular diseases. She has published internationally. She also teaches in a range of other subjects at the University.

Isabelle has experience working closely with International Societies and Charities, some of which she has been a Chair or a an active member of.

Since 2011 Isabelle has been the Head of the French Lymphoedema Framework, Partenariat Français du Lymphoedème –(PFL). She was the organiser and President of the last ILF Conference held in Montpellier in 2012 where she also ran a one week camp for nine children and young adults with lymphoedema, from four different countries.

Marcia S. Beck ACNS-BC; CLT-LANA

Mrs. Beck is a Clinical Nurse Specialist-Adult Health, and a Certified Lymphedema Therapist. She is a 25 year Breast cancer survivor, which changed the focus of her nursing career.

Marcia received her BS in Nursing from Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, and a MS in Nursing from University of Missouri Columbia. 

Marcia is a certified Healthy-Steps instructor, member of the American Lymphedema Framework Project (ALFP) steering committee, Board member Lymphology Association of North America (LANA), and on the Symptom Management Group for Oncology Nurses Society (ONS).

As a member of ALFP and ONS, co-authored publications:

*Website Updates to Oncology Nurses Society Putting Evidence into Practice PEP (Lymphedema)

* Precision health and precision phenotype assessment of breast cancer-related Lymphedema.

ADVANCE for Nurses, 2(9): 14-16.

*Simplifying evidence-based management of breast cancer-related Lymphedema

EXPERT REVIEW OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN CANCER CARE Vol.1, ISS.5, 2016

*Putting Evidence into Practice, a Pocket guide to cancer Symptom management 

ONS Publications, Ch 13, pp.149-155.

Joseph Feldman, M.D., CLT-LANA is the Medical Director of the NorthShore University HealthSystem Lymphedema Treatment Center, Evanston, IL and a Senior Clinician/Educator , University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine,  Chicago, IL.

Dr. Feldman is the Co-Director of the American Lymphedema Framework Project.  He is a founder and is President of the Lymphology Association of North America. Dr. Feldman manages patients with primary and secondary lymphedema and lectures to medical professionals and cancer support groups.   He has published several articles and has contributed to book chapters.

Dr. Feldman is the Program Director of the 9th ILF Conference.