About Kandy Hammond
VVC founder, Kandy Hammond offers medical professionals and practitioners new and innovative ways to increase patient volume, velocity, and productivity through her integrated clinical and business consultation. Her over 31 years of clinical and practice management experience enables her to provide superior clinical training and exceptional guidance within the clinical environment.
Considered one of the foremost consultants in the U.S.A., her management style is defined by an attention to detail supported by solution-driven results that have evolved throughout her 24-year career at Midwest Vein and Laser. As a result of her wide-ranging nursing experience and Masters in Business, she has a thorough understanding of patient care and the management skills necessary for creating successful medical practices.
As a national and international consultant and educator she has also provided clinical applications training for several laser companies including Dornier Med Tech; training physicians and nurses in laser therapy and pulsed light therapy.
She has co-authored several articles specifically about innovative techniques and procedures concerning venous conditions in such publications as Journal of American College of Surgeons, Photomedicine and Laser Surgery, Annals of Vascular Surgery, Phlebology, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, and The Journal of Radiologic Nursing.
To date, she has presented at many seminars where she has trained countless medical professionals. She has been an invited speaker at InVein Techniques and has recurring faculty status at the IVC, the International Vein Congress in Miami since its inception in 2001. Kandy Hammond is on the faculty of the Hands on Vein course held in the Dominican Republic where physicians, nurses, PA’s and ultrasound technicians get hands-on experience treating superficial venous disease. This exceptional course has trained hundreds of medical professionals on the various treatment modalities available today for varicose and spider veins.
Professional Background
Midwest Vein & Laser
Director of Clinical Operations / Practice Manager
30+ Years
Varicose Vein Consulting
President / CEO
American Venous Forum
Member
American Vein & Lymphatic Society
Member
Research & Clinical Contributions
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Effective Treatment of a Laser-resistant Port-Wine Stain with Photoderm VL Therapy. ESC Medical Systems LTD PB-100-3000, 1998.
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Tumescent Anesthetic Technique for Long Saphenous Stripping. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Volume 189, No. 6, December 1999.
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940-nm Laser for Treatment of Saphenous Insufficiency: Histological Analysis and Long-term Follow-up. Photomedicine and Laser Surgery, Volume 23, No. 1, February 2005.
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Treatment of Incompetent Vein of Giacomini (Thigh Extension Branch). Annals of Vascular Surgery, 2007.
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Major Neurologic Events Following Foam Sclerotherapy. Phlebology, 2008; 23:189–192.
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Histological Changes Occurring After Endoluminal Ablation With Two Diode Lasers (940 and 1,319 nm): From Acute Changes to 4 Months. LSM, Volume 40, No. 10, December 2008.
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Sclerotherapy of Spider Telangiectasia – Nursing Considerations. Journal of Radiologic Nursing, June 2012.