Conference Speakers

Jerrold H Levy, MD, FAHA, FCCM, is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Surgery (Cardiothoracic) at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. He is currently Vice Chair of the Scientific and Standardization Committee of the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, CoChair of the DIC Committee, and former Chair of the Perioperative and Critical Care Committee. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Miami, where he was a resident in internal medicine, followed by an Anesthesiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where he was Chief Resident, and completed fellowships in Respiratory ICU and Cardiac Anesthesiology. Before Duke, he was Professor and Deputy Chair for Research at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr Levy is an Editor for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Executive Editor for Anesthesiology and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. His clinical and research interests include anticoagulation and its reversal, therapeutic strategies to prevent and treat coagulopathy and acute inflammation in critically ill patients and extracorporeal life support, applications of recombinant and purified protein concentrates for treating coagulopathy and bleeding, anaphylaxis, and pharmacologic approaches to treating biventricular dysfunction and shock. He is the author of over 540 publications on PubMed with an h-index of 105 and i10-index of 451. He is also fluent in French and conversational in Spanish and Japanese.