Coagulation Conference
Conference Faculty
Wednesday-Friday, August 4-6, 2010
Visiting Faculty
Kenneth D. Friedman, MD
Medical Director, Hemostasis Reference Laboratory
BloodCenter of Wisconsin
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Pathology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Paula D. James, MD
Hematology and Internal Medicine; Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Thomas L. Ortel, MD, PhD
Director, Duke Hemostasis & Thrombosis Center
Medical Director, Duke Coagulation Laboratory
Professor of Medicine
Hematology/Oncology Division
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Mayo Faculty
COURSE DIRECTOR
William L. Nichols, MD
Consultant, Laboratory Medicine and Hematology/Internal Medicine
Mayo Special Coagulation Laboratories and Coagulation Clinical Centers
Co-Director, Coagulation Education Programs
Director, Mayo International Hemophilia Training Center (WFH)
Associate Professor, Medicine and Laboratory Medicine†
COURSE CO-DIRECTORS
Aneel A. Ashrani, MD
Consultant, Hematology/Internal Medicine and Coagulation
Mayo Special Coagulation Laboratories and Coagulation Clinical Centers
Assistant Professor, Medicine†
Dong Chen, MD, PhD
Consultant, Hematopathology and Special Coagulation Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology†
Michelle A. Elliott, MD
Consultant, Hematology/Internal Medicine and Coagulation
Mayo Special Coagulation Laboratories and Coagulation Clinical Centers
Assistant Professor, Medicine†
Rajiv K. Pruthi, MBBS
Consultant, Hematology/Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine
Mayo Special Coagulation Laboratories and Coagulation Clinical Centers
Co-Director, Mayo Special Coagulation DNA Diagnostic Laboratory
Co-Director, Coagulation Clinical and Laboratory Practice
Director, Mayo Comprehensive Hemophilia Center
Assistant Professor, Medicine†
Mayo Rochester Faculty
John A. Heit, MD
Consultant, Cardiovascular Medicine, Hematology and Coagulation
Director, Mayo Coagulation Laboratories/Clinics and Coagulation Group
Professor, Medicine†
Robert D. McBane, MD
Consultant, Cardiovascular Diseases/Internal Medicine and Coagulation
Mayo Special Coagulation Laboratories and Coagulation Clinical Centers
Director, Mayo Thrombophilia Center
Professor, Medicine†
Virginia M. Miller, PhD
Consultant, Surgery
Professor, Surgery and Physiology†
Whyte G. Owen, PhD
Consultant, Hematology/Coagulation Research and Biochemistry
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology†
Barbara A. Owen, PhD
Research Associate, Hematology/Coagulation Research and Biochemistry
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology†
Mrinal M. Patnaik, MBBS
Fellow, Hematology-Oncology Training Program
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine†
Paula J. Santrach, MD
Consultant, Transfusion Medicine and Laboratory Medicine/Pathology
Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology†
James R. Stubbs, MD
Chair, Transfusion Medicine and Consultant, Laboratory Medicine/Pathology
Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology†
†College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Faculty Disclosure
As a provider accredited by ACCME, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic (Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development) must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in its educational activities. Course director(s), planning committee, faculty, and all others who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest related to the subject matter of the educational activity. Safeguards against commercial bias have been put in place. Faculty also will disclose any off-label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments discussed in their presentation. Disclosure of this information will be published in course materials so those participants in the activity may formulate their own judgments regarding the presentation.


