THANZ Free Communications 1: Perspectives in thrombosis and haemostasis
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THANZ
| Monday, October 19, 2026 |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
| 516 |
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Kindly sponsored by Sobi
Speaker
Ms Elise Murphy
Anticoagulation Stewardship Pharmacist
The Royal Melbourne Hospital
From data to decisions: Developing a clinical dashboard to support VTE prevention and anticoagulation management
8:30 AM - 8:45 AMBiography
Elise is the anticoagulation stewardship pharmacist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where she has worked for the past ten years.
Dr Emma Leitinger
Haematologist
Monash Health
Evaluating a universal calibrator to exclude significant levels of apixaban and rivaroxaban: A blinded, multisite interlaboratory validation study.
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMBiography
Dr Emma Leitinger is a clinical and laboratory haematologist and Medical Lead of the Anticoagulation Stewardship Service at Monash Health, with expertise in thrombotic and coagulation disorders. She is currently undertaking a PhD on anticoagulant monitoring in clinical practice through Monash Health and Monash University.
Miss Ashleigh Lawrence
Senior Pharmacist
Fiona Stanley Hospital
VTE-STOP: Improving venous thromboembolism prevention through targeted risk assessment and prescribing interventions
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMBiography
Ashleigh is the Anticoagulation Stewardship Pharmacist at Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group (FSFHG). Since 2014, she has worked across public and private hospital pharmacy, focusing on digital health and medication safety. In 2023, she received the AdPha WA and National Early Career Pharmacist of the Year awards.
Assoc Prof Lisa Lincz
Senior Research Officer
Calvary Mater Newcastle
Establishing the broad assay of complement overactivatioN (BACON) as a potential diagnostic test
9:15 AM - 9:30 AMBiography
A/Prof Lincz is a PhD trained scientist who has spent her career leading laboratory research in the Haematology Department at the at the Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital. Her work has spanned areas of both coagulation and malignancy over the years.
Prof Robert Bird
Haematologist
Metro South Health / Princess Alexandra Hospital
Implementation and evaluation of a proactive anticoagulant stewardship service across a large metropolitan health service: a quality improvement initiative
9:30 AM - 9:45 AMBiography
Robert Bird was formerly lead, Anticoagulation Stewardship, Princess Alexandra Hospital.
He has recently retired from clinical practice, but continues as Chairman of the Board of Education & Assessment and Board Director RCPA.
He has a career long interest in classical haematology.
Previous roles include: RCPA chief examiner, Haematology; Chairman of the Joint College training committee, haematology RACP/RCPA and Director of Haematology at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane.
Dr Emma Leitinger
Haematologist
Monash Health
Butterfly: The safety and acceptability of a subcutaneous catheter for the administration of low molecular weight heparins
9:45 AM - 10:00 AMBiography
Dr Emma Leitinger is a clinical and laboratory haematologist and Medical Lead of the Anticoagulation Stewardship Service at Monash Health, with expertise in thrombotic and coagulation disorders. She is currently undertaking a PhD on anticoagulant monitoring in clinical practice through Monash Health and Monash University.
Dr Hui Yin Lim
Haematologist
Northern Health
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Lim is the Clinical Thrombosis Lead at Northern Health and Head of Diagnostic Haematology at Northern Pathology Victoria. Her main areas of research are in global coagulation assays and VTE epidemiology.
Dr Gordon Royle
Consultant
Middlemore Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
