The Vascular Birthmarks Foundation

Dr. Linda Rozell-Shannon, PhD President and Founder

These two interviews were done by Telemundo New York Chanel 47 and by UNIVISION Chanel 41, New York, of an AVM story of a Child,…

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VBF Life with a Vascular Birthmark Series Global Ambassador Question & Answer with Scott Cupples As part of our 2019 VBF Life With a Vascular…

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Take our Monthly VBF Day of Awareness Challenge by creating your Give2myVBF Page today! The Vascular Birthmarks Foundation’s “Give2myVBF” page is your chance to partner with VBF…

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As part of VBF's brand new LIFE WITH A VASCULAR BIRTHMARK series, this original piece, "Warriors," is presented by VBF Global Ambassador Sarah Woodhouse. Sarah wrote…

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Give2myVBF for the Holidays The Vascular Birthmarks Foundation’s “Give2myVBF” page is your chance to partner with VBF to help families affected by a vascular birthmark. You can…

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Today I would like to talk about a serious matter, BULLYING. From the bus stop to the playground it seems to surround us like the…

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As President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with Linda Rozell-Shannon, PhD for the past three…

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Solveig Hagen (hagen333@umn.edu) and Katie Grey (greyx013@umn.edu), medical students at the University of Minnesota and Drs. Dorota Korta (dkorta@uci.edu) and Kristen Kelly (kmkelly@uci.edu), dermatologists at…

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It was a normal pregnancy, 40 weeks no complications- our first child. The second she was born, the doctors took her to do the initial…

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When Aiden was born, he had a dark purple birthmark on the right side of his face. The attending pediatrician at the hospital told me…

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