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BiographyAssociate Pathologist,
Associate Director of Core Laboratory,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Professor in Pathology,
Harvard Medical School

Email: evancott@partners.org

Affiliations

Department of Pathology, Mass General Hospital

Stroke, and Hemophilia & Thrombosis Services,
MassGeneral Hospital for Children

Laboratory Director,
Shriners Hospital, Boston MA

Elizabeth Van Cott, MD is Director of the Coagulation Laboratory and Medical Director of the Core Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. She is President of the North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory Association (NASCOLA). She is an advisor for the Area Committee on Hematology for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), and is actively involved in writing coagulation laboratory guidelines for CLSI. She is an inaugural member of the new Standards Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP), and she recently completed a 6-year term on the CAP Coagulation Resource Committee. She has over 100 publications in the field of coagulation.  She is associate editor, section editor, or editorial board member for 4 journals. She was an invited expert participant at the two most recent CAP consensus conferences in coagulation which generated consensus guidelines on Laboratory Monitoring of Anticoagulant Therapy as well as Thrombophilia.

Research

Research interests include:

• Clinically-oriented studies in thrombosis and hemostasis

• Research is focused on coagulation, in particular, diagnostic coagulation testing and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT), including new anticoagulants for the treatment of HIT

PublicationsBibliography of Elizabeth M. Van Cott via PubMed