She successfully defended her PhD Thesis in Medicine in 1992. She obtained a master’s degree in Statistic Methodology and Statistics in Clinical Research at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris in 2002. She completed a Fellowship and received Board certification in Phlebology in 2007, at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris.

From 1992 to 2007, Dr. Gloviczki worked at Servier Laboratories, a leading French independent pharmaceutical company. At the Servier International Research Institute in Paris, she was Operational Assistant, Scientific Project Leader, Project Director and Chair of Division for Therapy of Vascular Diseases. During her years at Servier, she was working on preclinical and clinical research studies involving Micronized Purified Flavonoid Fraction (MPFF) and on the development of new drugs for venous and lymphatic disorders. She was a leader of several projects, including large international studies (RELIEF and others), observational and double-blind randomized studies in venous insufficiency, venous ulcers, and lymphedema. She was the Division Chairperson of the MPFF pharmacovigilance committee. With Dr. John Bergan, she started the International Venous Digest by Fax, a novel and popular publication sent weekly to thousands of physicians worldwide. She organized and edited an Atlas of Veins and Lymphatics and launched the journal Phlebolymphology.

In 2007, she moved to the United States and joined the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She worked briefly in Cardiovascular Research before joining the Division of Hypertension and Nephrology as a Research Fellow. She received the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Outstanding Research Fellow Award. She was Research Collaborator of the Gonda Vascular Center, Division of Vascular Medicine. Her research included renovascular hypertension, BOLD Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and the epidemiology of venous ulcers in Olmsted County.

Her personal experience motivated her to focus on treating patients suffering from lymphatic disorders including lymphedema, Dercum’s disease and lipedema. Today, as Founder & Director of The Lymphedema Center in Santa Monica, California, Dr. Iker leads the field in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of lymphatic disorders. As an internationally recognized expert in this sub-specialty, she frequently lectures at Medical Conferences in the United States and around the world. She also conducts clinical research and has published several scholarly articles in peer reviewed journals.