Joseph Emmerich, MD, PhD, FESC is Professor of Vascular Medicine in the Vascular Dept of Hopital Saint-Joseph, Paris, France (University Paris Descartes). He received his medical training in Paris and was board certified in Cardiology in 1989. In 1990, he was a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Heath (Molecular Disease Branch), Maryland, United States. His PhD thesis was “Haemostasis and Coagulation: Molecular Pathology of Serpins and Haemostasis Anomalies” at the University of Paris VII in 1995. He was appointed Pr of Vascular Medicine in 1997, and has also been a Research Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Vermont 2002-2010 and director of the INSERM laboratory U765 (Thrombosis: epidemiology, physiopathology and innovative therapy). His main research interests are in the epidemiology of venous thrombosis, and genetic and acquired risk factors for venous and arterial thrombosis as well as PAD and rare vascular diseases.