Professor Pratima Chowdary

Professor Pratima Chowdary is the Centre Director for the Katharine Dormandy Haemophilia

& Thrombosis Centre, Royal Free Hospital and Professor of Haemophilia and Haemostasis, Dept. of Haematology, University College of London (UCL). She is also the Clinical Lead for the Specialist Coagulation Lab in north London and serves as co-director for the National Haemophilia Database, run by United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors Organisation (UKHCDO).

She leads the multidisciplinary team for the care of patients with Haemophilia and related bleeding disorders. Prof. Chowdary's primary research interests include personalised management of Haemophilia, novel therapies in haemophilia including gene therapy, outcome assessments, haemophilic arthropathy and acquired coagulopathy.

She is active in interventional clinical trials in Haemophilia spanning extended half-life products, procoagulants and gene therapy. She holds numerous investigator-initiated grants and is the coordinating investigator for the United Kingdom Extended Half-Life (UK EHL) outcome registry.

She is also the chair of the UKHCDO working party on musculoskeletal issues in patients

with Haemophilia and is member of various steering committees. She has authored several peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters and is a member of numerous professional societies including the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, British Society of Haemostasis and Thrombosis, European Association of Allied Bleeding disorders and the World Federation of Haemophilia.