Organisation

The NVTH, the Dutch Society for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, is a professional association of scientists involved in blood clotting.

Members include scientific researchers, physicians, analysts, clinical chemists and employees of coagulation firms.

The association has about 300 members.

Bylaws

Statutes

Our board members

Dr. Rolf Urbanus

Chairman

UMCU, Utrecht

Dr. Heleen van Ommen

Secretariat

Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

Dr. Henri Spronk

Treasurer

MUMC, Maastricht

Dr. Saskia Schols

AIO-course

Radboudumc, Nijmegen

Dr. Ruben Bierings

Symposium

Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

Dr. Samantha Gouw

Board member

AMC, Amsterdam

Jente Schoenaker

PhD member

UMCU, Utrecht

For an overview of the previous NVTH boards, click here.

Working Group Haemostasis Diagnostics

History

In 1998, the Working Group Haemostasis Diagnostics was initiated by a group of NVTH members. This working group serves as a discussion platform for head and supervising analysts of diagnostic laboratories who work on haemostasis diagnostics as well as development and implementation of new analysis methods.

Mission statement

The mission of the Working Group Haemostasis Diagnostics is to exchange knowledge and experience in the field of thrombosis and haemostasis diagnostics, in order to promote expertise in the laboratories within the aforementioned working field.

This goal is reached through:

Exchange of and discussion about practical experiences and problems
Discussion on new analysis methods and techniques
Jointly tackling problems, on both the theoretical and practical level
Coordinating the execution of special an rarely used haemostasis tests
Promotion of quality in diagnostics
Discussion on publications on methods
Providing information to laboratories of peripheral hospitals
Publications on activities of the working group through the NVTH newsletter

Activities

The Working Group Haemostasis Diagnostics organizes the following activities:

Annual theme day for centers affiliated with the working group. The members of the working group should be members of the NVTH
Publication of the theme day on the NVTH website and in the NVTH newsletter
Core group meeting 4-5 times yearly

Core group

The Working Group Haemostasis Diagnostics is made of a core group of (head)annalists of specialized laboratories.
At this moment, the core group consists of:

Coby Wegman, Erasmus MC (voorzitter)
Evertine Heek, UMCU (secretariaat WHD)
Bart Vinke, UMCG
Wideke Barteling, Radboudumc
Caroline Klopper, Amsterdam UMC
Claudia van Rijn, LUMC
Paul Verhezen, MUMC

Shanti Baktawar, LUMC