Events

Open Position, Boston Children’s Hospital

Please see the attached Boston Children’s Hospital announcement for the open position of coagulation laboratory specialist, posted on behalf of Carlo Brugnara, MD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Department of Laboratory Medicine.

Victor Marder

Thanks to Elaine Benoit, Precision BioLogic Inc, for passing along the sad news that Victor Marder, MD, an International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis founder, passed away quietly on January 29, 2015. Dr. Marder was 80 years of age. Please select Victor Marder Death Notice for Dr. Marder’s obituary.

Welcome to the Updated Fritsma Factor

Hello, and welcome to our newly refreshed Fritsma Factor. The site is now mobile-friendly so you don’t have to be tied to a computer. Visit the site from your smart phone or tablet and it will automatically adjust to fit your screen. Besides our refreshed look and feel, we have improved the navigation and provided easy access to posts […]

Bob Malia

From Dr. Steve Kitchen: We have just learned the very sad news that Bob Malia has passed away. I don’t have any more details just now but will come back with addresses, etc. for any messages and details of arrangements when I have these.One of a kind and an inspiration to many of us in the field of […]

World Thrombosis Day

Join me in commemorating World Thrombosis Day.

World Thrombosis Day October 13

It is time to make your plans for World Thrombosis Day, sponsored by theInternational Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Inc. Please to WorldThrombosisDay.org or to the WorldThrombosisDay site on Facebook for full information.

Honolulu Oct 21–22

George presents “Monitoring the New Anticoagulants, Whatever Happened to the PT and PTT?” and “Managing Trauma-induced Coagulopathy,” for the 2014 ASCLS-HI Clinical Laboratory Symposium Update at the Ko’olan Conference Center near Honolulu, Hawaii, October 21 and 22 (well, someone has to do it!). Times for George’s talks are to be announced. We hope you can […]

Mayo Conference Sept 10–12

You are invited to the Clinical and Laboratory Update in Thrombosis, Anticoagulation and Vascular Medicine: A Board Review Primer, this fall’s Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development at the Mayo Civic Center, Rochester, Minnesota. This is a new location for the meeting, and you will find both The Fritsma Factor and Precision BioLogic represented in the […]

AACC “Quick Takes” on Quality Assurance

Join George as he kicks off the American Association of Clinical Chemists (AACC) Quick Takes webinar series with “Quick Takes on Quality Assurance in Hemostasis.” George will present three 30-minute presentations on August 7, 14, and 21, 1–1:30 EDT. He will discuss: Employing local calibration for prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT/INR) monitoring of Coumadin therapy. Specimen management […]

ISTH SSC; Milwaukee, June 23–26

The International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Scientific and Standardization Subcommittee meets June 23–26 at the Wisconsin Center,Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Please stop by to meet George and our folks at the Precision BioLogic booth, #308. See you in Milwaukee!

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George Fritsma is a medical laboratory scientist, educator, and author. George is a member of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, the International Society for Laboratory Hematology, and the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.

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