Scientific programme

Plenary speakers with an international reputation

As in every year, numerous renowned keynote and plenary speakers are expected at the GTH Annual Meeting. Among others, the following have already confirmed their participation:

• Prof. Alex C. Spyropoulos, MD, FACP, FCCP, FRCPC, Founder and former Medical Director at the Clinical Thrombosis Centre in Albuquerque, Professor at the Institute of Health System Science, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research will give his lecture on “New ways of anticoagulation via the FXI pathway”.
• Prof. Göran K. Hansson, Professor of Experimental Cardiovascular Research at Karolinska Institute and Secretary General at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will present “Modern Concepts of Atherosclerosis.”
• Prof. Philippe Vandekerckhove, CEO of the Belgian Red Cross-Flanders and former Clinical Director of the University Hospital Leuven will present “Evidence-based medicine”
• Prof. Tamam Bakchoul, Clinical Director of the University Hospital Tübingen will hold his lecture on “Thrombocytopenia in inflammatory diseases”
• Prof. Jan Beyer-Westendorf, Senior physician at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital at the Technical University of Dresden in the Hematology Department will give his lecture on “DOACs: Laboratory challenges and antidots”
• Prof. James O’Donnell, Professor of Vascular Biology in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Director of the Irish Centre for Vascular Biology will present “Low Von Willebrand factor levels – clinical and scientific insights”
• Prof. Jacob Odeberg, Professor at the Artic University of Norway at the Department of Clinical Medicine will hold his lecture on “Multi-omics approaches in thrombosis research”
• Prof. Johannes Oldenburg, Director of the Institute for Experimental Haematology and Transfusion Medicine of the University of Bonn, will present “Molecular and structural basis of clinic phenotypes of the Vitamin K pathway”