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Tadashi Matsushita

Professor
Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

I, Tadashi Matsushita is a Professor in the department of Transfusion Medicine at Nagoya University Hospital and the assistant to hospital director in charge of hospital quality improvement. Professor Matsushita graudauted from Nagoya University, Japan in 1985 with a Doctor of Medicine and he further completed a PhD in Internal Medicine and Thrombosis/Hemostasis in 1992.

My clinical work in coagulation disorders has been focused on the management of ~400 hemophilia and von Willebrand disease patients. I have been a member of the hemophilia Scientific and Standardisation Committee (SCC) of Japanese Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (JSTH). With his team he released national practice guideline of hemophilia care for the first time in Japan. Based on his role as a key council member of JSTH, he has been involved in the construction of the network of all Japanese hemophilia treaters and development of a hemophilia education system.
Currently, I am principal investigator/study coordinators in multiple clinical trials of novel recombinant coagulation factors and non-factor therapies for hemophilia. I also have served as the president of Japanese Society of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy (JSTMCT) and the current president of JSTH in which he is ready to contribute to the promotion of the field of thrombosis hemostasis in East Asia.

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