John Eikelboom

John Eikelboom
McMaster University & Hamilton General Hospital
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

John Eikelboom is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University and a Haematologist in the Thromboembolism Service at the Hamilton General Hospital. He did his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Haematology in Perth, Australia and subsequently completed a fellowship in Thrombosis Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University. He returned to Canada in 2005 to take up a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr Eikelboom has a leadership role and serves on Steering Committees and Data Safety Monitoring Boards of multiple large randomised trials of antithrombotic in cardiovascular medicine. He is member of the Editorial and Advisory Boards for Stroke, the Journal of Thrombosis and Hemostasis and the Canadian Journal of Cardiology has authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His current research, supported by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, focuses on the efficacy and safety of antithrombotic therapies in arterial and venous thrombosis, the prognostic importance of bleeding and transfusion, and the mechanisms of variable response to antiplatelet drugs.