Dr. Victor Blanchette

Dr. Victor Blanchette is Chief of the Division of Haematology/Oncology at the Hospital for Sick Children and Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. He is a Senior Associate Scientist in the Research Institute and a Clinician Investigator in the Department of Paediatrics.

Dr. Blanchette received his medical training at the University of Cambridge and St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the United Kingdom. His post-graduate medical training included a paediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the USA and a fellowship in paediatric haematology/oncology at McMaster University Medical Centre in Canada.

Dr. Blanchette's research interest is in the area of the congenital and acquired bleeding disorders of children. He is Director of the Paediatric Haemophilia and Thrombosis/Bleeding Disorders Programs at the Hospital for Sick Children and is Chairman of the Factor Prophylaxis Subcommittee of the Association of the Hemophilia Clinic Directors of Canada (AHCDC). Dr. Blanchette is Chair of the Canadian Paediatric Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network and a founding member of an Intercontinental Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) Study Group. Dr. Blanchette is Chair of the Council of Canadian Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Directors Group and is a member of the Boards of the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO), Camp Oochigeas, Camp Trillium and the Childhood Cancer Foundation Candlelighters Canada. Dr. Blanchette is an elected fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the United Kingdom.

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