Faculty - The Haemophilia Academy

Chairman

Professor Claude Négrier

Claude Négrier was head of the Haematology Department at Hôpital Louis Pradel in Lyon, France and Director of the Haemophilia Comprehensive Care Centre at this institution until the end of last year. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Haematology at the university of Lyon.

Faculty Member

Dr Victor Blanchette

Victor Blanchette is Medical Director of the Paediatric Thrombosis and Haemostasis Programme in the Division of Haematology/Oncology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and Medical Director of the SickKids-Caribbean Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Initiative (SCI). He is also Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he is a Senior Associate Scientist in the Research Institute and a Clinician Investigator in the Department of Paediatrics.

Faculty Member

Dr Roseline d’Oiron

Roseline d’Oiron is a Clinician Investigator and Associate Director at the Reference Centre for Haemophilia and Other Congenital Rare Bleeding Disorders, Congenital Platelets Disorders and von Willebrand Disease at Bicêtre Hospital AP-HP – University Paris XI, Le Kremlin–Bicêtre, France. She is also responsible for Specialist training for the master’s degree in haematology at University Paris VII.

Faculty Member

Dr Keith Hoots

Keith Hoots joined the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) as Director, Division of Blood Diseases and Resources in January, 2009. In this role he directs the NIH extramural grant research programme for haematological diseases, which funds researchers across the U.S. and around the world.

Faculty Member

Dr Stacy Croteau

Stacy Croteau is a paediatric haematologist and clinical investigator at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, where she specialises in bleeding and clotting disorders. Dr. Croteau is the Head of the Haemophilia/vWD programme at Boston Children’s Hospital and Medical Director for the Boston Hemophilia Center serving Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Faculty Member

Professor Margareth Ozelo

Professor Margareth Ozelo is Director of the WFH International Haemophilia Training Centre (IHTC) at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. She received her medical degree (1994), specialist training in haematology and transfusion medicine (1994-1997), and PhD (2004) from Unicamp before undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship in David Lillicrap’s laboratory, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada (2006–2009).

Former Chair

Professor Christopher A. Ludlam (Former Chair 2008-2018)

Christopher Ludlam is Emeritus Professor of Haematology and Coagulation Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and former Director of the Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Former Faculty Member

Professor David Lillicrap (Faculty member 2015-2018)

Professor Lillicrap is a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Since 2000, he has been the recipient of a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Hemostasis. In 2013, he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada.

Former Faculty Member

Professor Johannes Oldenburg (Faculty member 2011–2017)

Johannes Oldenburg is Director of the Institute of Experimental Haematology and Transfusion Medicine and the Haemophilia Centre at the University Clinic in Bonn, Germany. He completed his specialty training in transfusion medicine at the University of Bonn and in medical genetics at the University of Wuerzburg.

Former Faculty Member

Professor Jørgen Ingerslev (Faculty member 2008–2010)

Jørgen Ingerslev was formerly Professor in Haemostasis and Thrombosis at Aarhus University, Denmark, and a Haemophilia Centre Director at the National Haemophilia Center of Western Denmark. This centre provides services to younger patients with venous thromboembolism and occlusive cerebrovascular disease.