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    Beverley J. Hunt, MD, FRCP, FRCPath

    Professor of Thrombosis & Haemostasis, Consultant Haematologist
    Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
    London, England, United Kingdom

    See also
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Hunt

    Professor Beverley J Hunt OBE, FRCP, FRCPath, MD is Professor of Thrombosis & Haemostasis at King’s College London;
    Consultant in the Thrombosis & Haemophilia Centre at GSTT; & Strategic Lead in Haematological Sciences at Synlab LLP

    She is founder, previous Medical Director and now trustee of Thrombosis UK
    She was a member of the Steering group of World Thrombosis Day from its inception 10 years ago and chairman for 5 years until December 2022.

    In 2019 awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for services to medicine.

    In 2020 awarded the British Society for Haematology medal for service to haematology; with Karen Schreiber won The Eberhard F Mammen award from Thieme.
    In 2021 honoured with an ISTH Esteemed Career award & the first woman to give the Van Creveld lecture for the Netherlands Thrombosis & Haemostasis Society
    -gave the first Gustav Born lecture.

    In 2022 gave the John Stern lecture at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. She chaired the local organising committee of the 2022 ISTH Congress in London

    Covid -19 pandemic
    She became an international expert on thrombosis and coagulopathy in COVID-19 patients, and gave over 120 international webinar lectures and numerous media interviews.

    She sits on the World Health Organisation and NICE GDGs producing living COVID-19 guidelines.

    From March 2021 she was part of the core UK Expert Haematology Panel defining, managing and researching Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombocytopenia & Thrombosis (VITT), working with Public Health England and bodies such as the Royal Colleges and BBC Radio 4 where she gave a 10 minute interview describing VITT to the public.The Expert Haematology group were awarded a special prize for their work by the Royal College of Pathology in 2023

    She has over 450 original publications on PubMed and many grants.

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