Division of Hematology & Thromboembolism
Mark Crowther
MD, MSc, FRCPC
Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology and Thromboembolism and Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Director of Laboratory Hematology, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program
Chief of Laboratory Medicine, St Joseph’s Healthcare and Hamilton Health Sciences
Career Investigator, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Leo Pharma Chair in Thromboembolism Research, McMaster University
Vice President, Research, St. Joseph's Healthcare System
Education and Professional Standing
MD, University of Western Ontario, 1990
FRCPC Internal Medicine, 1994
FRCPC Hematology, 1995
MSc Health Research Methodology, 1998
Research Interests
Dr. Crowther holds a Career Investigator Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. His current research interests include exploring ways of improving the way that we use our current anticoagulant drugs; foci include exploring the use of vitamin K to treat warfarin-associated coagulopathy, the use of low molecular weight heparin in patients with renal failure, and studies and systematic reviews of various interventions and observations in Hematology and Thromboembolism.
These efforts are funded by Pharmaceutical partners and Peer-review funding agencies and are carried out in collaboration with International, National and Local partners including Dr. Walter Ageno (Varese, Italy), Dr. David Garcia (University of New Mexico) and McMaster Collaborators including Dr. Deborah Cook (Critical Care), Dr. James Douketis (Division of Internal Medicine) and Dr. Wendy Lim (Hematology and Thromboembolism). The St. Joseph’s Thromboembolism Research Centre is located on the second floor of 39 Charlton Avenue, across from the main hospital campus.
Dr. Crowther’s clinical interests include general, benign, hematology
with a special interest in the prevention and treatment of blood clotting
complications. The clinical service at St Joseph’s Hospital is covered
by Dr. Peter Powers (Hematology and Thromboembolism), Dr. Mark Crowther
(Hematology and Thromboembolism), Dr. James Douketis (Thromboembolism), Dr. Howard Chan (Hematology and Thromboembolism) and Dr. Madeleine Verhovsek (Hematology and Thromboembolism).
Research Team Members
Research Coordinators: Terri Schnurr
Study Co-ordinator: Dr. Luqi Wang
