Victor F. TapsonVictor F. Tapson, MD is Director of the Duke Pulmonary Vascular Disease Center and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. His research and patient care involve venous thromboebolism and pulmonary hypertension. He served as Chairman of the American Thoracic Society's Consensus Statement for the Diagnostic Approach to Acute Venous Thromboembolism and also participated in the American College of Chest Physicians' Consensus Statement on Antithrombotic Therapy for the past 7 years. He has been a principal investigator or steering committee member for a number of national studies on the diagnosis and treatment and deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. He is also a member of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' Task Force for Venous Thromboembolism. Read More Read Less