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Beverley Hunt, MD

Professor of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
King's College and University
Guy & St. Thomas Hospital
London, England
United Kingdom

Beverley Hunt is a Professor of Thrombosis and Haemostasis at King's College London and is a Consultant at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, running a Thrombosis unit and working in hematology, pathology and rheumatology. She is a national and international expert in thrombosis and acquired bleeding disorders. In England, she sits on the National Venous Thromboembolism board, where she co-leads the patient awareness and experience work stream.

Professor Hunt also sat on the National VTE Prevention Clinical Advisory Group, the NICE Guidelines Development group for the management and also prevention of VTE and the NICE VTE standards development committees. She has extensive clinical experience in thrombotic and acquired bleeding disorders and runs a very active research group with over 250 peer-reviewed publications to her name.

In 2009, Professor Hunt won the NHS London innovation award for laboratory assays, and is the co-founder and Medical Director of Lifeblood: The Thrombosis Charity, which was named "Health Charity of the Year 2010" and "Patient Group of 2010" for campaigning for mandated prevention of hospital-acquired blood clots in England.