Hanny Al-Samkari, MD

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Hanny Al-Samkari, MD

Biography

Dr. Hanny Al-Samkari is the Peggy S. Blitz Endowed Chair in Hematology/Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a classical hematologist and NIH-funded clinical investigator and clinical trialist. He also serves as Co-Director the MGH Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Center of Excellence. His clinical and research interests are in hemostasis, thrombosis and hemolysis, with focuses in HHT, thrombocytopenias, and hemolytic anemias. As a clinical investigator, Dr. Al-Samkari is an internationally recognized expert in the clinical development of novel therapeutics for these disorders and serves as the lead principal investigator for multiple ongoing clinical trials. He is a current Associate Editor of the American Journal of Hematology, a leading international hematology journal, and the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, the flagship journal of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts. His original research has been featured in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine and Blood, among other top peer-reviewed journals in hematology and medicine.

Hanny Al-Samkari, MD
The Peggy S. Blitz Endowed Chair in Hematology/Oncology
Hematology Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Excellence
Massachusetts General Hospital