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Christopher Kabrhel, MD MPH

Director, Center for Vascular Emergencies
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Christopher Kabrhel MD MPH is a practicing emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital with more than 20 years of experience performing research into the epidemiology, diagnosis, risk stratification and treatment of PE and DVT. Dr. Kabrhel's research has been funded by the NIH, the CDC, as well as private foundations and industry. He is Director of the Center for Vascular Emergencies - a multidisciplinary research center housed within the MGH Department of Emergency Medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and risk-stratification of patients with venous thromboembolism, and the development of novel care delivery methods for patients with acute PE. In 2012, Dr. Kabrhel co-founded the MGH Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT), the first such team in the world, and later, the PERT Consortium. He also coordinates venous thromboembolism research for the Nurses’ Health Study at Channing Network Medicine at the Health Professionals Follow Up Study at the TH Chan Harvard School of Public Health where he focuses on epidemiology and population risk factors for VTE. To further this work, he co-founded the International Network for Venous Thromboembolism research which focuses on the genetic epidemiology of VTE. Dr. Kabrhel is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the MGH Endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine.

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