Johns Hopkins Venous Thromboembolism Symposium
The Johns Hopkins Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Collaborative, with support the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, the Department of Pharmacy and Johns Hopkins Nursing, in collaboration with the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, holds a VTE symposium every March that highlights some of the latest research on venous thromboembolism and features a keynote speaker who is an international authority in this field.
16th Annual Johns Hopkins Medicine VTE Symposium
Friday, March 29 | 8 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., via Livestream and at The Johns Hopkins Hospital's Hurd Hall
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Various speakers will provide engaging talks with a focus on reviewing current data and guidelines about VTE prevention, diagnosis, treatment and best practices. This event will also feature a panel of patients sharing their VTE stories.
Keynote Speech: James Douketis
Perioperative Anticoagulant Management: Five Developments in 2024 That Will Affect Your Practice
James Douketis is a staff physician in general internal medicine and clinical thromboembolism at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton in Canada. A professor of medicine, he holds the David Braley-Nancy Gordon Chair in Thromboembolic Disease at McMaster University, also in Canada. He received his M.D. and performed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Toronto, followed by a thrombosis fellowship at McMaster University.
His research interests include perioperative anticoagulant management and related guideline development (2008, 2012, 2022 ACCP Guidelines), and venous thromboembolism prevention, treatment and prognosis for patients.
Douketis is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Science, past president of Thrombosis Canada (2013–21), editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine, associate editor of the McMaster Textbook of Internal Medicine, deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine’s “Journal Club” and associate editor of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. He has 430 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index=100, i-index=281, and ~107K citations (July 2023).
James Douketis lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with his wife, clinical geneticist Margaret Nowaczyk. He has two sons, Jack and Luke. Douketis is a cellist with the Burlington Symphony Orchestra.
This event is free to all.
This offering is partially supported by the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, the Department of Pharmacy and Johns Hopkins Nursing, in collaboration with the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, and Johnson & Johnson and Grifols.
Videos from Past VTE Symposia
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