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The global world thrombosis day movement

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Pantep Angchaisuksiri

Pantep Angchaisuksiri, MD

Professor of Medicine and Chief of Haemostasis and Thrombosis Unit
Division of Haematology, Department of Medicine
Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
Bangkok, Thailand

Pantep Angchaisuksiri holds the posts of Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA, and is Associate Director of the Bangkok International Haemophilia Training Centre of the World Federation of Haemophilia. A medical graduate of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, he was trained in Internal Medicine at Prince of Songkla University and Haematology at Mahidol University. He was also a clinical and postdoctoral fellow in Haematology/Oncology at the Medical College of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine.

Professor Angchaisuksiri works with patients with thrombosis, haemophilia and other bleeding disorders, and has authored papers in leading international scientific journals. He is an executive council member of the Asian-Pacific Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, an editor of its newsletter, an editorial board member of Thrombosis Research and the Journal Thrombosis, a member of the ISTH and several of its committees, the American Society of Hematology, and the World Federation of Hemophilia.

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