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Dr James Uprichard

Clinical Lead for Blood Transfusion

MB BS, BSc, PhD, MRCP(Lond), FRCP

Based at: St George's Hospital

Background

Dr Uprichard graduated in medicine from University College London in 1996, completed PhD thesis in rare bleeding disorders. He was appointed as clinical lecturer in haemostasis at Imperial College in 2007.

He then completed a clinical fellowship in the North Thames Haemophilia Network and an elective in haemostasis at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA.

He was appointed as consultant haematologist at St George’s Hospital and honorary senior lecturer at St George’s University of London in 2011.

Areas of interest

Dr Uprichard has a specialist interest in haemostasis, including:

  • inherited and acquired bleeding disorders
  • thrombosis
  • haemostatic disorders of pregnancy.

St George’s Hospital is a major trauma centre, so much of his work involves the acquired coagulopathy of trauma.

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